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Dubai Municipality announced that 29,000 building permits were approved by the municipality in 2018, while 6,043 buildings were completed last year.
Dawoud Al Hajri, Director-General of Dubai Municipality said that the total area of construction completed in 2018 was 100 million square feet, a six percent increase in Dubai's urban construction sector compared to that of 2017.
He added that the simplification of procedures and ease of permits in Dubai is proceeding at a rapid pace, making building permits in Dubai is easier, enabling it to win first place in the Arab world and the Middle East, according to the annual World Bank Business Report.
In terms of volume of work in the emirate's construction sector, Al Hajri noted that the figures show the bulk of work in the construction sector and real estate growth. "The area permitted for 2018 amounted to 13.7 million square metres, of which 11.5 million square metres was for new construction, and 2.1 million square metres for additions to existing buildings as the number of building permits issued during 2018 amounted to 29,480," he explained.
He pointed out that the licencing statistics show the qualitative transformation of the real estate market and the construction and investment pattern by comparing the percentage of the investment and commercial building areas compared to the residential villas.
"The building areas that were permitted in preparation for the start of operation of the multi-storey investment buildings were about 10 million square metres, which constitute 75 percent of the total area licenced for 2018. The residential villas accounted for 11 percent of the total area," said Al Hajri.
As for the role of the Municipality related to qualifying, registration and supervision of the work of consulting offices and contracting companies in the year 2018, the municipality approved the listing of 802 new contracting companies of different types in the Emirate of Dubai. The total number of qualified contracting companies in the Emirate has now reached 9,086, which is an increase of nine percent over 2017.
As for the engineering consultancy offices that design and oversee implementation, 36 consultancy offices were registered during 2018. The total number of qualified engineering offices in the Emirate has now reached 824, with different grades and categories, which is a four percent increase from 2017.
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