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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.).

The Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, continues to work on Alghalibiah housing project in Diyala Governorate, with a completion rate of 87%, at a cost of (26,400,000) billion dinars, and with a number of housing units amounting to (696) apartments.
The complex consists of (58) residential buildings with three floors, comprising (696) apartments and includes two models: type (A) = (312) apartments, and type (B) = (384) apartments, with (4) apartments on each floor.
The complex contains public service buildings (primary school, 2 high schools, mosque, health center, 2 guard rooms, markets, as well as site works from external networks and roads.

Under the auspices of Eng. Sadiq Muhammad Hassan, Director General of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, the Directorate organized on Sunday 22/1/2023, in coordination with the Medical Center at the Ministry’s headquarters, a blood donation campaign in support of humanitarian cases and hospitalized patients for the public interest.

Under the supervision of the Directorate of Housing, one of the formations of the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, work continued on the Al-Dabuni residential project in Wasit Governorate, with an 80% completion rate, as the contract cost of the project after the appeal amounted to (36.177.000) billion dinars, and the number of housing units amounted to (255) houses.
The project was described as having 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 services, and type (B), with (100) houses, with 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, landscaping, afforestation and furniture, etc.)

The Minister of Construction, Housing and Public Municipalities, Mr. Bankin Rikani, confirmed the work on drawing up a housing policy supported by accurate data, consistent with the population increase and human density witnessed by Baghdad and the rest of the provinces. This came during his visit to the Directorate of Housing, one of the Ministry’s formations, and his meeting with the management and staff of the Directorate and officials of the resident engineer’s directorates for housing projects.
Mr. Minister stressed during the meeting on addressing previous mistakes, advancing the housing sector, and providing facilities for the discreet and effective private sector to participate in achieving development and increasing the balance of housing units for all segments of society, referring to the Ministry’s progress within the government program with the new residential cities project, as part of its endeavor to support the housing sector.
Mr. Minister directed the officials of the resident engineer directorates to submit a new work progress schedule for projects, and to withdraw work immediately from lagging companies and also from companies that recorded deviation rates of 10%.

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.

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.