SANTO DOMINGO.- The Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings (Mivhed) will hold several meetings with students to socialize the “Guide to good practices for the presentation of technical plans”.
The first activity is scheduled to take place on October 1st at the Ibero-American University (UNIBE), auditorium, from 10 am to 12 pm, and will be aimed at engineering and architecture students.
The meeting, titled “Sharing the Best Practices Guide for Submitting Technical Plans to the MIVHED Processing Department,” marks the beginning of a series of training sessions that the agency will conduct at universities across the country to educate them on this topic. These sessions will be facilitated by the heads of the technical divisions.
The organization stated that the guide has already been shared with the country's main construction associations, and that a training process will begin in academies, starting with the October session, with the goal of ensuring that users take into account the most common points when designing and presenting plans, in order to reduce correction orders and, consequently, the time required to rectify them.
It will continue with the remaining universities that offer engineering and architecture programs. The organization stated that the goal is to lay the groundwork for improved presentation and compliance with regulatory requirements.
He asked for improved plans
In May of this year, Carlos Bonilla, Minister of Housing, asked the country's builders to improve the quality of their blueprint presentations, a measure that, according to the official, would help reduce the approval times for construction permits.
“I’m going to side with the developer because I am a developer myself. We need to improve the professionals we use to create the plans because, gentlemen, we have to raise the level of the plans we deliver, raise the level of the professionals we hire,” declared the head of the Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Housing (MIVHED), while participating as a speaker at the “1st Construction Forum Copymecon 2024: Present and Future of Public and Private Investment.”.
The guide
The Mivhed website has the “Guide to good practices in the presentation of technical plans”, containing 8 pages and the 5 fundamental axes that the construction sector must take into account when presenting the plans that lead to a certain project and the steps in which there are the greatest failures in the documents that arrive at that agency.
The first chapter addresses architecture, access, and parking. It contains 28 provisions that must be considered when submitting plans. The second section of the "list of common notes by technical area" details the Sanitary area with 25 elements to consider; the third section, concerning structural plans and reports, contains, among other provisions: "The foundation plan must include the cistern, septic tank, and perimeter fence.".
In addition to presenting the analysis, design, and structural plans of the same.”.
Another note in the plans and structural details says: “You must present a Wall-Slab connection detail, since for interior walls you must indicate which of the two reinforcements (that of the slab or that of the wall) should be cut, with the understanding that it is not possible to cross both meshes.”.
Section four of the Mivhed guide breaks down the elements that should be prioritized in plans relating to electrical connections and the everyday mistakes that companies make:
In Geotechnical section 5, the guide notes that “the geographical coordinates of the soundings carried out are not presented, among other observations.
