The new National Building Code is going to be a catalyst to the manufacturing sector in the country, a board member with the National Construction Authority (NCA), Mutinda Mutuku, has said.
Mutuku said that the building code incorporates provisions for sustainable materials, new technologies and disaster resilience besides ensuring sanitation facilities at construction sites. "The building code is designed with adaptability and innovation in mind and incorporates provisions for sustainable materials and new technologies and disaster resilience," said Mutuku, who is the President of the Institute of Quantity Surveyors of Kenya. "It addresses inclusivity by ensuring sanitation facilities for all genders at the construction sites.
The code will be a catalyst for the growth, particularly of the manufacturing sector," he posed during a sensitisation training of contractors, site supervisors and construction workers at a hotel in Wote town on Thursday.
He observed that the new code came into being after it was established that the e1968 code was inadequate, lacking effective and objective controls and enforcement mechanisms, compounded with the collapsing of buildings in the 1990s. "The need to review the code arose out of the construction collapses witnessed in this country in the 1990s.
