Independent vetting authority to certify buildings across Chennai
Chennai:
Now buildings across the city could soon be certified by an
independent vetting consultant if Chennai Metropolitan Development
Authority accepts the guideline evolved by the city developers to
ensure safety of buildings following the Moulivakkam tragedy that
killed 61 workers last June.
Although, it is too early to say whether the third party vetting
consultant, to validate the structural design and soil test done for
multi-storied buildings as well as commercial buildings over one lakh
square feet, could be accommodated by CMDA in its development
regulations but developers say that the Standard Operating Procedure
(SOP) for Residential Construction is a self-regulatory mechanism and
will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of buildings besides
eliminate risk.
Releasing the handbook, Ajit Chordia, president of The Confederation
of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI), Chennai,
and vice-president of CREDAI Chennai, Suresh Krishn told reporters
that the developer community is now going in for a third party
independent vetting consultant under the SOP, which has been drafted
by members from CREDAI, academicians from IIT Chennai, Anna University
and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Talking about the role of vetting consultant, Krishn said that the
third party consultant will validate the structural design and soil
test done for special buildings (stilt plus four floor) measuring more
than one lakh square feet of built up area besides multi-storied
buildings.
Interestingly, the SOP also stresses on the need for every site to
have a compliance manual besides internal audit of compliance manual
should be done. Krsihn says that CREDAI will also form an audit
committee and this committee will certify the building. “This is a
self-regulatory mechanism. CREDAI will ensure all its members to abide
by the process listed out in the SOP,” Krishn said.
The independent vetting consultant would be a qualified person and
also could be an IIT professor, Krishn said. Reacting to the SOP by
CREDAI, monitoring committee member M G Deivasahayam welcomed the
self-regulatory mechanism but said that CREDAI can’t influence CMDA in
pruning the development regulations through its SOP. “Property
developers can’t be regulators,” he said.
Interestingly, the SOP contains three parts and the first part
relating to procedure and responsibility of various agencies involved
in the construction was launched on Thursday. “CREDAI has 130
developers in its fold and about 65 to 70 per cent of the
constructions done in the city are organized constructions,” said
Krishn.
Meanwhile, CREDAI is also planning to train civil engineers from Anna
University and make them employable in construction sector.
Chennai:
Now buildings across the city could soon be certified by an
independent vetting consultant if Chennai Metropolitan Development
Authority accepts the guideline evolved by the city developers to
ensure safety of buildings following the Moulivakkam tragedy that
killed 61 workers last June.
Although, it is too early to say whether the third party vetting
consultant, to validate the structural design and soil test done for
multi-storied buildings as well as commercial buildings over one lakh
square feet, could be accommodated by CMDA in its development
regulations but developers say that the Standard Operating Procedure
(SOP) for Residential Construction is a self-regulatory mechanism and
will play a crucial role in ensuring the quality of buildings besides
eliminate risk.
Releasing the handbook, Ajit Chordia, president of The Confederation
of Real Estate Developers' Associations of India (CREDAI), Chennai,
and vice-president of CREDAI Chennai, Suresh Krishn told reporters
that the developer community is now going in for a third party
independent vetting consultant under the SOP, which has been drafted
by members from CREDAI, academicians from IIT Chennai, Anna University
and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
Talking about the role of vetting consultant, Krishn said that the
third party consultant will validate the structural design and soil
test done for special buildings (stilt plus four floor) measuring more
than one lakh square feet of built up area besides multi-storied
buildings.
Interestingly, the SOP also stresses on the need for every site to
have a compliance manual besides internal audit of compliance manual
should be done. Krsihn says that CREDAI will also form an audit
committee and this committee will certify the building. “This is a
self-regulatory mechanism. CREDAI will ensure all its members to abide
by the process listed out in the SOP,” Krishn said.
The independent vetting consultant would be a qualified person and
also could be an IIT professor, Krishn said. Reacting to the SOP by
CREDAI, monitoring committee member M G Deivasahayam welcomed the
self-regulatory mechanism but said that CREDAI can’t influence CMDA in
pruning the development regulations through its SOP. “Property
developers can’t be regulators,” he said.
Interestingly, the SOP contains three parts and the first part
relating to procedure and responsibility of various agencies involved
in the construction was launched on Thursday. “CREDAI has 130
developers in its fold and about 65 to 70 per cent of the
constructions done in the city are organized constructions,” said
Krishn.
Meanwhile, CREDAI is also planning to train civil engineers from Anna
University and make them employable in construction sector.
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