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Quality lab will curb construction flaws

AJMAN — The Dh2 million state-of-the-art Building Materials Testing Laboratory set up by the Ajman Municipality to ensure quality of construction materials, will be operational in the beginning of September.

Disclosing this, Ahmed Abdul Razaq, Director (Technical) of Ajman Department of Municipality and Planning,

noted that such a lab was conceived in the light of the boom in construction and real estate witnessed by the emirates.

He explained that the lab would analyse the properties of building materials, including concrete, metals, lumber and wood products, plastics, and various paints and other finished materials. This comprehensive test facility is furnished with all instruments necessary for testing the behaviour of building materials under the wide-ranging conditions in which they are used.

The laboratory would help in curbing malpractices by some contracting and real estate companies as well as monitoring the quality of the materials used in construction. This laboratory would help in encouraging the investors looking for ways to protect their business from being taken for a ride by such contracting companies.

He pointed out that Shaikh Rashid bin Humaid Al Nuaimi, Chairman of Ajman Department of Municipality and Planning, has recently approved the law to organise the functioning of contracting companies in Ajman. This law includes around 20 articles which make the violators among the building materials companies liable to pay up to Dh50,000 and be subject to closure if the violation is repeated. The copies of the law have been circulated to all contracting companies currently carrying on construction projects in the emirate to understand it and comply with the conditions.

The law also classifies the contracting companies into six categories: construction, road works, electricity, building maintenance and building demolitions as well as agriculture and irrigation.

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