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The National Engineering Services of Pakistan (Nespak) has sent a draft about a new building code for the whole country to the Housing Ministry that after taking all stakeholders on board will finalise the draft and despatch it to the federal cabinet for approval.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has decided to cancel the contract of a firm that is carrying out development work in I-15 sector and has re-invited tenders for the project.
The Capital Development Authority (CDA) has approved four projects worth Rs 42.5 million to install security streetlights on two national highways. The project concept (PC-1) has been prepared while the construction work will start next month.
The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) in its meeting on September 23 will discuss and approve various development projects costing more than Rs 15,600 million.
The National Assembly”s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has sought explanation from the Capital Development Authority (CDA) on issues such as allocation of a plot to a private company for the construction of a fast food outlet in F-9 Park, construction and allotment of a rest house at Pir Sohawa and allotment of plots for five[…]
Convention Center, once a serene place surrounded by lush green trees, is fast becoming a crowded place owing to a bus-stand of the “diplomatic shuttle service” that has been set up in the center”s parking lot.
The Nawaz Sharif Park, once used to be the first choice of people living in Rawalpindi and its suburbs, to spend some pleasant moments with their children, now seems like a “waste land” due to the conditions prevailing in and outside it.
Federal Minister for Housing and Works Syed Safwan Ullha Friday said that the construction of three new blocks in Pak Secretariat would be started from the first month of next year 2007.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has initiated inquiry against nine private and cooperative housing schemes in the capital city that were approved by a senior official of the Capital Development Authority (CDA), who is currently under suspension for alleged corruption, sources told Dawn.
Pakistan Environment Protection Agency (Pak-EPA) has constituted a review committee to decide on granting environmental approval to the Centaurus Complex Building project.
Islamabad Traffic Police (ITA) has proposed to CDA to further extend 7th avenue upto Murree road with a flyover at the Kashmir Highway covering Soharwardy road.
In a first ever step towards introducing a world-class movie-going experience to people of Pakistan by building state of the art movie theatres in urban cities of Pakistan, Cinepax performed the groundbreaking ceremony of an entertainment complex in collaboration with the Capital Development Authority (CDA) at the Club Road on Thursday.
After the demolition of illegally constructed Jamia Hafsa, many illegal constructions in the federal capital which are expanding day by day are waiting for their turn.
The Lahore High Court has stopped the Model Town Society (MTS) from leasing out a 10-acre (80 kanal) plot of land for 33 years to a multinational company at Rs 350,000 per kanal per year for setting up a cash and carry store, officials told Daily Times on Sunday.
The Gulberg Town Council has been authorised through Section 54-A of the Punjab Local Government Ordinance 2001 to approve designs for residential and commercial property in Model Town, city government officials told Daily Times on Wednesday.
Defence Housing Authority has taken over the control of Park View Housing Society, one of the prime localities facing Allama Iqbal International Airport and originally run and managed by Punjab IT Minister Abdul Aleem Khan.
The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has no building code to check the durability of buildings being constructed by the land mafia and the non-existence of a separate department to enforce the federal building by-laws had allowed mushroom growth of several plazas in the City, The Post has learnt.
Nazim Mian Amer Mehmood inaugurated a “one-window” programme on Thursday, to quicken the approval of building plans.
The city district government has called for letters of interest from private construction and engineering firms for a survey of illegal commercial buildings constructed in the city in the last five years. This move is surprising because it comes after the district municipal services department, the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) and other town departments presented[…]
The Punjab government is introducing a new law on insurance of plazas, it is learnt. Draft bill of the proposed law has been prepared and it will be tabled in the Punjab Assembly this year, sources say, adding owners of each shop in a plaza will share the cost of the insurance.
The Lahore High Court Monday dismissed seven identical petitions challenging the proposed establishment of Journalist Housing Colony under the Punjab Journalists Housing Foundation Act, 2004, and declared it in the public interests.
The provincial government is considering to set up a centralised agency on the pattern of the Karachi Buildings Control Authority in each of five city district governments to check structures with flawed building and structural plans, it is learnt.
Chief Minister Pervaiz Elahi on Wednesday announced residential colonies for industrial workers next to all new and existing industrial estates in the province.
The Lahore Development Authority governing body on Friday approved amendments to building regulations for ensuring safety of multi-storey residential and commercial buildings through proper scrutiny of site plans and effective supervision.
The reconstruction and upgrading of sector G-6 weekly bazaar would be completed by the end of this year, an official of Capital Development Authority told The Post Sunday. According to details, the CDA has assigned the contract of renovation and reconstruction to an Islamabad based private construction company. Some 1,800 stalls would be constructed in[…]
