The Ministry of Municipality, represented by the Building Permits Complex, held its periodic meeting on Monday with engineering consultancy offices operating in the country.
The meeting, which was held at the Al Rayyan Municipality auditorium, discussed the third edition of the 'Building requirements guide in the State of Qatar 2022' and the first edition of 'The requirements and services of building permits system guidebook in the State of Qatar 2022', which were launched recently and are currently applicable.
Saad Abdulkareem al-Qahtani, director of the Building Permits Complex, explained to the attendees the need to submit engineering designs and plans that comply with the building requirements guide, and attaching all necessary documents, blueprints, designs and data according to the 'Requirements and services of building permits system guidebook in the State of Qatar 2022', during an application.
He noted that starting from August 8, building permit applications that do not comply with these requirements have been rejected, especially regarding the main requirements such as height in floors and meters, number of units permitted, building ratios, building factors, coverage ratio, utilisation ratio, approved architectural types of the building facades, parking lots and others.
He said the applications exempted from these include building permit applications regarding land plots that follow special planning requirements and major projects. Besides, all applications that are not fully compliant with the requirements and services of building permits system guidebook will be rejected.
Al-Qahtani stressed that the engineering consultancy offices should update their data in the electronic building permits system. He also answered the queries of the attendees at the event.
 
 
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