Dubai Municipality has confirmed that more than 85% of the existing buildings and establishments in Dubai comply with the approved planning and construction rules and regulations.
Dubai Municipality director of buildings department, Layali AbdulRahman Al Mulla, said: One of the main tasks of the Building Inspection Section in our Buildings Department is the constant control and inspection of all existing buildings and establishments in Dubai to ensure their compliance to the laws of construction and safety.
The inspectors of the section also catch the violations regarding building usages and stop the unplanned growth by correcting and repositioning them in order to achieve the vision the Municipality to build a happy and sustainable city.
Strategic partners of the Municipality from various local departments, such as the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority, Department of Economic Development, Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing, Dubai Police, and the Dubai Land Department, work on implementing the laws and local orders that regulate construction work in the emirate.
Head of the Building Inspection Section, Saeed Ahmed Khalifa Bin Humaidan Al Falasi, said: During 2016, they issued 15,895 notices to buildings for violation of the construction laws and regulations. This has resulted in preparing 46,976 technical reports regarding these violations.
He also added that the engineers of the Section carried out 54,221 field visits to ascertain the extent of compliance of these buildings and they caught 17,075 construction violations, from which 47.14% were making additions and modifications without license.