Dubai Municipality's Building Licensing Department revealed that 96 million square feet are new construction. Ibtisam Al Ameri, Head of the Licensing Department, explained that 96 million square feet are new construction and pointed to the diversity and multiplicity of properties and constructions, where the distribution of licensed construction areas was 76% for multi-storey buildings, 15% for residential and investment villas, and 9% for service and industrial buildings.
Al Ameri pointed out that the applications for new building licenses and additions received and processed by the licensing department amounted to 29,578 applications with 250 license transactions per day.
Ameri added that the number of applications for new building licenses and additions received and processed by the licensing department amounted to 29,578 applications with 250 license transactions per day. Al Ameri added that applications for building licenses and plans are submitted electronically and fees are paid directly through the electronic system developed by the Municipality's Buildings Department and customers can follow the progress of their transactions during the audit as well as review the notes of the municipality's engineers in case there are technical notes on the submission of designs and plans.
Ameri added that the applications for new building licenses and additions received and processed by the licensing department amounted to 29,578 applications, with 250 license transactions per day.
