Kazakhstan To Monitor Construction Sites Monthly Under New Rules

Kazakhstan will launch regular monitoring of facilities under construction and planned construction projects when the new Construction Code comes into force on July 1, Orda.kz reports.

Akimat employees will have to visit sites once a month, visually inspect the areas and prepare reports on any illegal construction they identify.

Akimats will monitor construction sites. Projects that are only being planned will be overseen by architecture and urban planning departments. Facilities where construction has already begun will be monitored by construction departments and architectural and construction control bodies.

The areas must be checked every month. Officials will visit the sites, inspect them and record illegal construction in reports. Separate records will be kept for planned projects and for facilities already under construction.

If a violation is found at the planning stage, the information must be transferred to construction control within five working days. After that, the relevant body must take action.

The monitoring database will include information about the customer, the address of the facility, land plot data, technical conditions, design documents, contractor, technical supervision, construction schedule and current state of the project.

Data on planned facilities will be stored in the state urban planning cadastre. Information about facilities under construction will be kept on the construction portal using the “one-stop shop” principle. The monitoring reports themselves must be published on gov.kz.

Original author: Alexander Zhdanov

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