The 8-page guide offers guidelines and highlights common mistakes builders make when submitting documents.
SANTO DOMINGO - The Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings (Mivhed) released a guide on the practices that should accompany the presentation of technical plans, one of the main steps that precedes the construction of civil works.
Last May, Carlos Bonilla, the minister in charge of that state agency, asked the country's construction companies to improve the quality of their design and blueprint presentation. According to the official, this measure would expedite the approval process, a key issue that generates dissatisfaction and complaints from construction companies and delays the start of real estate developments.
“I want us to analyze this as a sector and support and increase the quality of those plans and those professionals that we sometimes hire, and that we have to do so so that those times continue to improve,” Bonilla stated.
In this regard, the Mivhed has posted on its website a “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 the greatest failures occur 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. These include, among other things, the project's location and site, stair designs, elevators, and other relevant points.
The second section of the “list of common notes by technical area” details the Sanitary area with 25 elements to take into account; section 3 of structural plans and reports contains, in addition to other provisions: “The cistern, septic tank and perimeter fence must be presented in the foundation plan. 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.”.
The fourth section of the Mivhed guide breaks down the elements that should take precedence in plans relating to electrical connections and the everyday errors that companies make: “Projects in their first entry come incomplete and often illegible (thick dark text, mirror text, overlapping text, very reduced scales of tables, etc.).”.
In the Geotechnical section 5, the guide points out that “the geographical coordinates of the boreholes carried out are not presented. Discrepancy between the geographical coordinates of the boreholes shown in the report and the location of the plot according to the geographical coordinates of the Cadastral Plan and the deposited Architectural Plan,” the document emphasizes.
In the Health area, the Guide also highlights three groups of observations: one for missing documentation, where it mentions lack of definitive property title, lack of demarcated cadastral, lack of approval from the Ministry of Tourism (MITUR) and plans sealed by that agency, lack of approval from the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MIMARENA), absence of an illustrative sketch of unified patterns and completing the names of owner(s) according to the property title(s).
The second observation concerns the homologation of plans, and the third refers to the cadastral plan; in the latter, it states: “Dimensions of the perimeter of the plot are missing, according to the dimensions of the cadastral plan, in the location plan, dimensions of the perimeter of the plot, differ with the dimensions of the cadastral plan; unify with it, the north direction differs from that shown in the cadastral plan, unify,” contains the document, which we share below:
