A study is currently underway between the Ministry of Housing and the Saudi Electricity Company to measure low-consumption electricity meters to know the real number of vacant housing through the preliminary study and it has been observed that the number of vacant housing in Riyadh exceeds the normal level by 7%, and the study monitored the rise in vacant housing with the so-called «second home» in the cities of Abha and Mecca.
This was explained by the Minister of Housing Majid Al-Hogail.
This was explained by Housing Minister Majid Al-Hogail during his press statement after opening the Fifth Saudi Conference on Project Management sponsored by the Saudi Engineers Organization and in cooperation with the Ministry of Housing under the slogan "Project Management for Public-Private Partnerships" which was held last week in Riyadh, and said: We are trying to come out through the Saudi Engineers Organization to raise the quality of individual construction, indicating that much of the individual construction, which represents 90% of the existing housing products, lacks engineering quality, and we fear that the continuation of poor engineering quality will increase waste.
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Emphasizing the market need during the next five years requires the beginning of building 1.5 million housing units, indicating that the volume of demand is large and spread throughout the Kingdom and there are foreign and local partnerships and we aspire to diversify the product and develop construction methods to suit the largest segment of Saudi citizens.
He pointed out that (Housing) currently signed with 20 Saudi developers and we expect to build 60 thousand housing units, indicating at the same time that the ministry has signed international agreements with a number of countries such as South Korea and the Arab Republic of Egypt.
At the same time, he pointed out that the ministry signed international agreements with a number of countries such as South Korea and the Arab Republic of Egypt.
On the other hand, the Chairman of the Saudi Board of Engineers, Jamil Al-Baqaawi, explained that we are currently seeking to raise the quality of engineering offices and their work, and in a question about engineering offices that sell the signature for design and construction plans, Al-Baqaawi revealed that there are licensed engineering offices that work incorrectly, by giving the stamp in exchange for money. Al-Baqaawi pointed out that the authority is working on launching an awareness campaign with the Ministry of Commerce in the next two weeks, and we will withdraw the licenses of the offending engineering offices after the launch of the campaign.
