Dubai Municipality announced the decision of the Committee for Age and Licensing of Practicing the Profession to suspend two engineering consultant offices and prevent them from licensing any new projects for a period of (6) months. This decision comes after monitoring professional practices that contradict the approved regulations, requirements and ethics of the profession, which may negatively affect the interests of the owners and developers. This is part of the duties of the Dubai Municipality in organizing the profession of engineering consulting and controlling the quality of work. Dubai Municipality has also announced a new plan to update the criteria of “contracting contracting companies and engineering offices”, to include the introduction of a set of standards and indicators that enables to provide comprehensive and accurate evaluation criteria for the performance of these bodies, in order to enhance their continuous efforts in developing
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