In my name and in the name of all employees of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities I extend my sincere congratulations and blessings to our Christian brothers on the occasion of the glorious Christmas and New Year’s Day, asking God Almighty to restore tranquility and peace to our people.
Engineer
Sadiq Muhammad Al-Fartousi
General Director
Dr. Nabil Ghazi Thajeel, Assistant Director General of the Directorate of Housing, and all its employees, congratulated Engineer Sadiq Muhammad Al-Fartousi, on his assumption of the position of Director General of the Directorate of Housing.
We wish him prosperity, progress and success in serving our beloved country.
The Department of Planning and Follow-up / Division of Training and Development in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a course on road design and according to quantities on the Civil 3D program, which is specifically related to road and bridge engineers.
The course curriculum was presented by Eng. Israa Lutfi Ibrahim from the Certification and Engineering Consultation Department at the headquarters of the Directorate on Thursday morning 11/10/2022, with the participation of a number of employees of the Directorate of Housing.
The lecture touched on several engineering axes in terms of how to enter the natural land points from the surveyor into the Civil 3D program, and how to create a surface from these points, and then create the horizontal curves of the road and create the longitudinal section of the road according to the American AASHTO specifications, and extract the tables and design drawings for the construction of the road.
The aim of the course was to enable the participants to calculate the quantities, design the road and extract the longitudinal section of the road.
The Department of Planning and Follow-up / Division of Training and Development in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a course entitled Internal Audit of the Quality Management System (QSM) according to the requirements of the guiding specification for auditing management systems (19011:2018) for the period (16/10 until 20/10/2022).
Mr. (Ahmed Abdel-Zahra Ali / Senior Director), head of the Quality Management Division at the Directorate, gave a series of lectures that included a definition of the requirements of the international standard (ISO 19011: 2018), as well as the knowledge and skills required in the process of internal auditing of the quality management system according to the requirements of the guiding standard for auditing management systems (ISO 19011:2018).
A number of the Directorate’s employees participated in the course, and the lecturer touched on the benefits of applying the quality management system, especially since the Directorate of Housing holds the international quality certificate from the awarding company (INFINTY).
The lecturer also presented an integrated curriculum related to the basic concepts of the standard and the role of internal audit in addressing deviations and raising the efficiency of performance in general in the Directorate. The course included several training workshops on the application of the system and internal auditing
It is noteworthy that the Directorate of Housing has been organizing training and development courses, workshops and seminars to To improve the job performance of its employees in all specializations.
In my name and on behalf of the employees of the Directorate of Housing, I extend my warmest congratulations and blessings to Professor Benkin Abdullah Rikani on the occasion of his assumption of the position of Minister of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, wishing him success in serving our beloved country
engineer
Haider Fadel Al-Mayali
Director General of the Directorate of Housing
On Tuesday 29/11/2022, the Quality Management Division in the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized a symposium entitled (Quality Management Systems and Their Effective Applications).
The symposium was delivered by Dr. Ali Al-Zubaidi, an expert in integrated management systems for Integrated Management Systems Associates. The symposium was attended by Dr. Ismail Al-Qazzaz and Mr. Saeed Al-Nayef, consultants in the field of management systems and director of the Quality Management Department, and a number of quality representatives in the Ministry and its formations.
The doctor touched on the development of the concept of quality and what is the purpose of quality management systems, the role of standards in the application of management systems, the practical application of quality management systems and the process of evaluating matches and issuing certificates and Arabic translations “challenges”.
The objective of the seminar was to ensure effective understanding of the concept of “quality” and “quality management system” and its effective applications.
In conclusion, the senior management of the Directorate of Housing thanked the lecturer, Dr. Ali Al-Zubaidi, for the arrangement, methods of presentation, and the amount of valuable information that was presented during the symposium.
Under the supervision of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, work continues on Zarbatiya housing project in Wasit Governorate, which is being executed by Marsa Al-Khairat and Emaar Al-Badia companies, with a completion rate of 67%, and the number of housing units amounting to (544) houses.
The complex consists of two models of residential houses, including: Type (A)= 497 residential houses, containing three bedrooms, with a building area of 186 m2, and Type (B) = 47 residential houses, containing three bedrooms with a total building area of 180 m2.
The complex also contains public service buildings (kindergarten, nursery, primary school with a capacity of 18 classrooms, an intermediate school with a capacity of 12 classrooms, market, health center, post office building, mosque with service networks (pure water and fire, rainwater network, heavy water sewage network) in addition to the external site works such as streets, sidewalks, walkways, squares, yards and afforestation.
The work is continuing by the senior management and all the staff of the Directorate of Housing, starting with overcoming all obstacles and finding appropriate solutions to accomplish the work and achieving housing units that contribute to solving part of the housing crisis that our beloved country needs.
Under the supervision of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, work continues on Al-Dabuni residential project in Wasit Governorate, which is being executed by Rawafed Al-Khaleej Contracting Company, with a completion rate of 75%, and the number of housing units amounting to (255) houses.
The project was described as two types of residential houses, type (A), with a number of (155) houses, with an approximate building area of (130) m2, with three bedrooms and its services, and type (B), with (100) houses, and an approximate built-up area of (119) m2, with two bedrooms and its services.
The complex also contains public services (primary school with a capacity of 18 classrooms, market, administrative building, guard room, telephone exchange with service networks (pure water and fire, rainwater drainage network, sewerage network, external and internal electrical networks, telephone, external site works from external fences, streets, sidewalks, walkways, parking lots, and landscape works (yards, rest areas, organizing gardens, afforestation, furniture, etc.).
Under the slogan “Development of societal thought for the components of contemporary housing – contemporary housing for all,” the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, organized on Tuesday 4/10/2022 at ten in the morning in the main hall, the Arab Housing Day celebration (which is held annually First Monday of October).
The celebration was held under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, Engineer Nazanin Mohammed Wassou, and was attended by Eng. Jaber Abed Khaji / Technical Undersecretary of the Ministry, Expert Engineer Fadel Muhammad Kazem / General Manager of Al-Mu’tasim Company, Engineer Saif Al-Assaf / General Manager of Ashur and Al-Rasheed Companies and Engineer Dr. Muhammad Haider Al-Sakni, Assistant Director General of the Engineering Construction Directorate , Engineer Haider Fadel Al-Mayali / Director General of the Directorate of Housing, Mr. Nabil Ghazi Thajeel/ Assistant Director General of the Directorate of Housing, and the ladies and Gentlemen heads of departments and employees of the Ministry’s formations.
The celebration opened with a verse from the Holy Quran, followed by the speech of the Technical Undersecretary of the Ministry, in which he pointed out the magnitude of the challenges facing the implementation of housing policies and plans, starting with the expansion of slums and the bulldozing of agricultural lands to convert them into residential lands, passing through the damage caused by the terrorist thought in quite a few housing projects in The governorates and the scarcity of financial allocations that negatively affect the movement of the wheel of reconstruction and the effective and important sectors related to the semi-idled housing sector and unable to play its role in activating and supporting it. And he showed the Ministry’s need for expert advisory institutions in the field of housing, and for specialized financing institutions, all of which need a real state’s will to implement housing plans.
The Director General of the Directorate of Housing delivered a speech in which he touched on the challenges facing the implementation of the housing policy and the activation and development of the housing sector, and their impact (negatively or positively) is not limited to the amount of money the government allocates to this sector, but rather the challenges reach the community itself: intellect, orientation, basic requirements and ambitions. He stressed the Directorate of Housing’s serious endeavor to address the issue of ownership of lands on which residential complexes are built by preparing a draft resolution for the Council of Ministers that includes amending the provisions of Cabinet Resolution No. (223) for the year (2019) to replace the term empowerment with the term ownership, in addition to activating the provisions of Cabinet Resolution No. ( 394 for the year 2012) which allows this Directorate to own the lands on which residential complexes are built, for a symbolic fee. He also referred to the adoption of the methodology of converting some investment plan projects to announce them investment opportunities in coordination with the National Investment Commission, in order to overcome the obstacles to providing financial allocations for implementation; in addition to adopting the principle of cooperation with some Arab countries to implement some housing projects, such as the Egyptian Agreement, which would open horizons of cooperation and benefit from the experiences of Arab countries in the field of implementing housing projects.
While the speech of the Secretary-General of the United Nations and the Executive Director of the Habitat (which was delivered on his behalf by the member of the National Committee for Human Settlements in Iraq / Director of the Department of Housing Studies and Policies) emphasized that no one was left behind, meaning that cities should respond to the needs of women and children bridging the gap between the affluent and the destitute within and between urban and rural areas and within developed and developing regions and between them as well. It also emphasized the adoption of human-centered policies, promoting sustainable consumption and production patterns, and giving priority to building an infrastructure that takes into account environmental considerations and is able to withstand.
As for the speech of Mr. Assistant Director General of the Engineering Construction Directorate, it included a presentation entitled “Sustainability in Housing Projects”, in which he addressed the sustainable development goals related to the housing sector and sustainability assessment methods, then reviewed some international, Arab and local investment projects, in which he showed through comparative analysis the importance and the impact of investment projects’ commitment to sustainable development standards.
While the presentation titled “Reading in Housing Planning Trends 2017-2022” presented by the Director of the Housing Studies and Policies Department in the Directorate of Housing included a review of the most important planning documents adopted for the period 2017-2022 represented in the document of updating the national housing policy, and resolutions 70 and 419 for the year 2019 and Resolution 338 for the year 2021 (Dari Initiative). This reading summed up the assertion that the national housing policy and the executive plan are the basic compass in organizing other detailed planning directions, and that the development of societal thought in designing or organizing the components of (modern) housing to be available to all is still linked to the outputs and results of the existing planning trends now, and this will require more of the efforts and allocations before reaching the concept of (contemporary housing), and that the components of contemporary housing depend on contemporary technologies in the provision of technical infrastructure services in the main, as well as the orientation, but rather the emphasis on the flexibility of internal and external spaces for housing to achieve the best use of the urban (physical) structure.
The Head of the Investment Division in the Property Department gave a presentation entitled “The Directorate’s Projects Executed by the Investment Method,” in which she reviewed the Directorate of Housing’s directions in addressing the execution of housing projects through investment, whether some projects of the Directorate’s investment plan or other projects.
As for the conclusion of the presentations, it was entitled “Arab experiences in the development of the production of housing units,” which was prepared by a senior chief engineer in the Engineering Authentication and Consultation Department, which reviewed, through comparative analysis, housing patterns and the quality of tenure in three Arab countries (the Republic of Iraq, Algeria and the Republic of Egypt).
The celebration was concluded by extending thanks and appreciation to the ladies and gentlemen participating and attending and wishing all success.
Under the direct guidance of the senior management of the Directorate of Housing, the Division of Relations, Information and Citizens Affairs organized, at the Directorate’s headquarters, a condolence gathering for the spirit of the late employees, Safa Abdul Majeed Muhammad and Mr. Amer Falih Hassan, this Monday morning, 12/9/2022. The condolence gathering was attended by Mr. Saif Sami Al-Asafi, Director General of Ashur and Al-Rasheed General Companies with an accompanying delegation, and they were received by Dr. Nabil Ghazi Thajil, Assistant Director General of the Directorate of Housing and also, all the staff of the Directorate who expressed their grief over those we lost with hearts full of contentment, full of sadness and separation.
