The Directorate of Housing: Organizes a course entitled (Drawing on the Sketchup program)

Planning and Follow-up Department / Training and Development Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a course entitled (Drawing on the Skatchup program).
The course curriculum was lectured by Eng. (Zeina Habib), Senior Chief Engineer in the Certification and Engineering Consultancy Department, Architectural Designs Division, at the Directorate of Housing headquarters, on Thursday morning, 18/5/2023, with the participation of a number of engineers specialized in this field.
The lecturer touched on the axis of definition and explanation of this program, which is one of the three-dimensional engineering drawing programs, through which engineering shapes are formed and housing and non-housing projects are realistically shown, and it is considered a form of engineering development in the field of housing projects.
The aim of the course was how to use the program in order for the participants to present small 3D projects, and they were evaluated on the basis of that.

Al-Suwaira residential project in Wasit Governorate

The Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, continues to work on Al-Suwaira housing project in Wasit Governorate, with a completion rate of 74%, as the contract cost for the project after the appeal amounted to (69,726,000,000) billion dinars, and the number of housing units amounted to (640) apartment.
The project was designed in the form of multi-storey residential buildings (four floors), with two models of residential buildings:
Type (A) = (40) buildings, (480 apartments)
Type (B) = (10) buildings, (160 apartments)
The residential complex 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 and (2) guard rooms with service networks (pure water and fire, rainwater drainage network, heavy water sewage network with heavy water treatment unit, external and internal electrical networks, telephone) as well as external site works (external fence, streets, sidewalks, parking lots) and also contains landscape works (yards and rest spaces, garden organization, afforestation and furniture).

The National Housing Council agrees to the amortization of the remaining amounts for the housing units of the martyrs’ families.

The National Housing Council, headed by the Minister of Construction, Housing, and Public Municipalities, the Chairman of the National Housing Council, Mr. Benkin Rikani, agreed at the Ministry’s headquarters and in the presence of the members of the Council from the various concerned government agencies, to increase the payment period to be 35 years instead of 25 years for the included categories, which are the categories of martyrs, widows, displaced persons, the disabled, Non-employee citizens are from vulnerable groups that are granted housing units from the governorates in exchange for reduced amounts, while maintaining a 50-year repayment period for widows.
The Council also agreed to recommend the amortization of the remaining amounts owed by the families of the martyrs for their housing units.