Month: March 2023

-Welcoming the attendees and presenting the Council’s congratulations to the new members of the Board of Directors, and congratulating Dr. Fadhaa Al-Kalabi for assigning her to manage Studies and Policies Department in the Directorate, due to the referral of Dr. Huda Ahmed Jaafar to retirement. The Council’s thanks and appreciation were presented to Dr. Huda for her great services throughout her career. Below are the most important topics that were discussed:

-Discussing the agenda and directives of the Minister to establish housing units on the lands of the Ministry for the purpose of selling them to employees at reasonable prices.
-Discussing the new cities project.
-Discussing the Directorate’s projects and directing to complete the construction of 10 projects this year and 6 for next year according to its timetable, and follow up on referring the rest of the projects within the investment plan projects or referring them for investment.
-Discussing the acceleration of procedures to resolve the issue of Al-Amriyah Residential Complex, in order to start its construction as soon as possible.
-Discussing the support of the Directorate’s cadres and following up on the letter addressed to the Ministry of Planning after the Minister’s approval of the minutes of the previous meeting, and working to make the Directorate attractive to specialized cadres to support and complete the work in the best way.
-Discussing requirements for approving designs for investment projects, in coordination with the Municipality of Baghdad and municipal Directorates in the governorates, and directing work with one determinants for all parties.
-Directing all departments to urge employees to work seriously and adhere to work hours, and the evaluation will be done monthly.
-Follow-up on securing the amounts of funds of surveys in coordination with the Ministry of Planning and Finance to ensure that business does not stop and until the budget is approved.

The Directorate of Housing resumes work on Taharba housing project in Al-Muthanna Governorate, with vigorous and diligent follow-up by Engineer Sadiq Muhammad Hassan, Director General of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities.
And by overcoming all obstacles and problems, the staff of the Directorate of Housing continued to supervise the execution of Taharba housing project in Al-Muthanna Governorate, where the completion rate of the project reached 78%. (112 houses), and the contractual cost of the project after the appeal is (16,276,000) billion Iraqi dinars.
The media office stated that the project contains a number of residential floors with a horizontal system of two floors, and that the building area of the house is (123.2) square meters, and inside each residential house there is one car park, and the project also includes service buildings that include (one primary school with a capacity of (6) classrooms and (1) guard room and a group of service and sewage networks, in addition to gardens, parks, and rest areas.

The Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, Benkin Rikani, discussed at the Ministry’s headquarters ways to support the housing sector with the Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Program (Habitat) in Iraq, Mr. Wael Al-Ashhab, and representatives of the International Labor Organization and the World Trade Center, in the presence of the Director General of the Directorate of Housing.
The Minister stated during the meeting that the Council of Ministers decided, in its last session, to form a central committee to standardize building standards and new residential cities, with the aim of preserving state funds and organizing the planning aspects of the cities; He also welcomed any support that works to raise the capabilities of the Directorate of Housing affiliated to the Ministry, develop the performance of its employees, and provide it with modern electronic systems that provide accurate data on the housing sector to draw up policies and implementation mechanisms.
Director of (Habitat) in Iraq, reviewed the cooperation agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the European Union, regarding programs and projects funded by the Union and in cooperation with ministries, including the Ministry of Construction, indicating that the agreement includes supporting the government in developing the housing sector, training and creating job opportunities for youth, and providing low-cost housing for limited and low-income people.

Under the chairmanship of the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Directorate of Housing, Mr. (Sadiq Muhammad Hassan), the meeting of the first session of the Board of Directors was held for the month of February (28/2/2023), and in the presence of Board members from various ministries.
The meeting began with a speech from the Director General, who started by welcoming the attending members and urging them to exert maximum efforts and present the best results to the Directorate.
The Board of Directors discussed a number of topics on the agenda in its meeting, the most important of which was addressing work problems and the general situation of the Directorate. At the end of the meeting, the Director General expressed his optimism about the important development that took place in the course of work in the interest of our dear country, and stressed that he was confident that the future is better and there is greater success in light of the keenness and assurance of the Board of Directors of the Directorate to keep pace with the continuous development.

The Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, continues to work on Al-Jazeera / 2 housing project in Karbala Governorate, which is being executed by Al-Mansour General Contracting Company, one of the Ministry’s formations, with a completion rate of 70% and the number of housing units amounting to (632) apartments.
The contract cost of the project after the appeal amounted to (74,517,000) billion dinars, as the prices of the unimplemented items in the schedule of quantities according to the original contract were approved, where the project was described as multi-storey residential buildings (four floors) with two models of residential buildings, and they include type (A) = 53 building (424 apartments) as it contains two apartments on each floor, and type (B) = (13) building (208 apartments) as it contains four apartments on each floor.
The residential complex also contains public service buildings (kindergarten, nursery, primary school with a capacity of 18 classrooms, 2 intermediate schools with a capacity of 12 classrooms, markets, health center, administrative building, 2 guard rooms with service networks (pure water and fire, rainwater drainage network, heavy water drainage network with heavy water treatment unit, external and internal electrical networks, telephone, external site works of external fences, streets, sidewalks, walkways, parking lots and landscape works (yards , rest areas , organizing gardens, afforestation and furniture, etc.).