The Saudi Council of Engineers showed in its statistics at the beginning of this year 2021 on the field of the various training programs on the Saudi Building Code, which is one of the training programs offered to promote professional development in the engineering sector, as the Authority comes as one of the entities participating in the Building Code Committee to contribute to improving the quality of residential buildings for citizens.

The Saudi Council of Engineers is one of the entities participating in the Building Code Committee to contribute to improving the quality of residential buildings for citizens. <The Acting Secretary General of the Saudi Council of Engineers, Engineer Abdulnasser Al-Abdullatif, explained that the Authority achieved its goals by implementing more than 34 training programs covering several areas of building code, most notably the Saudi Code (fire protection), (energy conservation), (sanitary wiring) and (general) code, which benefited more than 4700 trainees in more than 400 days with a total of 136 training hours, in addition to a series of workshops and meetings held by the Authority In addition to the series of workshops and meetings held by the Authority regarding the qualification of engineering offices on the mechanism of applying the code in cooperation with the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs and Housing, the Ministry of Energy, the National Committee for Saudi Building Code, and the General Directorate of Civil Defense to unify the complementary efforts undertaken by the Authority with the relevant authorities in order to ensure the readiness of the service system of the companies and engineering offices to achieve the best results and their sustainability.

This comes as part of the Authority's efforts to raise the engineering capabilities of national cadres on how to apply the building code to buildings, facilities and the building and construction sector in general for male and female engineers, which is one of its professional development plans to advance the engineering sector in the Kingdom and those working in it.

This is part of the Authority's efforts to raise the engineering capabilities of national cadres. <Al-Abdullatif explained that the Authority is keen on continuity that contributes to achieving the goals set in the building code, in accordance with its mandate, which includes licensing engineering companies and offices to practice their engineering activities in order to ensure the level of competence of their engineering cadres, professional accreditation of engineers and engineers working in engineering companies and offices, after verifying their qualifications and practical and professional experience that contribute to knowledge about the extent of their abilities in achieving the application of code requirements and requirements on buildings and facilities, as well as the approval of developmental and qualification programs and inspectors for