Myanmar real estate news

High-rise inspection to run into next week


Myanmar real estate news The Yangon Region government’s review of 64 suspended high-rise projects will continue into at least next week, and the results of the inspection will only be made public once all the building sites have been surveyed, according to officials involved in the review.

U Aung Myint, chair of the Myanmar Engineering Society (MES) and a member of the committee formed to oversee the review, said that only once all the buildings have been scrutinised will the committee announce which projects will be re-issued with permits.

YCDC told some 200 high-rise projects to suspend development back in May, while the authorities investigated whether projects correspond to Yangon development plans.

Of the frozen projects, 64 had already received an official construction permit, and these buildings are being examined first. Following a review of schematics and plans, four 14-person teams under a newly formed Yangon Region government committee started site visits on June 21.

Yangon Region’s Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein told a parliament session on June 16 that the review would be finished and permits re-issued “within the next week”. But that deadline now looks in doubt.

U Myo Myint, a member of one of the inspection teams and a representative of the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Association (MCEA), said he was unsure when the inspections would finish because the committee had not told them when the next set of inspections would take place.

But it would not be possible for them to finish within a week, he said. “The committee has not arranged things very systematically, said U Myo Myint. “They haven’t given us exact instructions and we don’t know the procedure. We’re just told where we have to inspect and when have to submit the report.”

Although 12 building were inspected on June 21, no inspections took place yesterday and there would not be inspections today, he said.

The committee is chaired by Daw Nilar Kyaw, Yangon Region minister for electricity, industry and transportation, who could not be reached for comment.

U Myo Myint said that as an MCEA representative he thought the 12 buildings inspected on June 21 should be allowed to continue construction. The projects had received construction permits, and were in-line with regulations in place when the permit was issued, he added.

“They had received official approval and construction has been underway for some three of four months,” he told The Myanmar Times. “A lot of investment has gone into the projects, but now they have to wait. We at MCEA think the committee should allow these projects to proceed, but it’s up to them.”

Contractors have complained that the review is taking far too long and is hurting the construction industry.

U Kyaw Nanda Aung, a representative of Kyeemyindaing township and member of another inspection team, said that his role was to negotiate between local residents and developers. He could not comment on projects’ technical aspects, but would report residents’ comments on the projects to the committee, he said.

“Some local residents aren’t happy with the projects being built,” he added.

The inspection teams are made up of representatives from the Association of Myanmar Architects, the Myanmar Engineering Society, the Committee for Quality Control for High-rise Building Projects, Yangon Heritage Trust, the Myanmar Construction Entrepreneurs Association, the Myanmar Earthquake Committee and YCDC committee members.




Quoted from mmtimes.