NBRB to Construct a Building Materials Research and Quality Assurance Centre.
The Ministry of Works and Transport alongside the National Building Review Board (NBRB) and National Housing and Construction Company (NHCC) has embarked on the construction of the Building Materials Research and Quality Assurance Centre at Lubowa along Entebbe Road. The facility expected to be complete with in two years will be a centre of excellence […]
Masaka launches bid to improve structures
https://youtu.be/iKE3hn5O3NsThe Masaka City leadership has set up a Building Committee to ensure better infrastructural building plans. Under the arrangements, poorly constructed buildings in the city are to be demolished.
Masaka City Building Committee Inaugurated.
Masaka City has received a nine-member committee to supervise all building developments in the city. Alice Nanungi, the Masaka City council works committee chairperson, chairs the committee inaugurated on 5th march 2022. Committee members include; Masaka City town clerk, Geoffrey Bemanyisa, the physical planner, Martin Kigozi, and the environment officer Christine Nabadda among other members. […]
NBRB to construct a Research Centre and Building Material’s Laboratory.
The Minister of Works and Transport Gen Katumba Wamala has witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding between the National Building Review Board (NBRB) and Uganda National Housing and Construction Company (NHCC) to construct a Research Centre and Building Materials Laboratory. NHCC is providing land at Lubowa, along Entebbe road in Wakiso District while […]
NBRB WINS E-GOVERNMENT EXCELLENCE AWARD
National Building Review Board (NBRB) is the recipient of this year’s E- Government Excellence Award in recognition of being the outstanding E-Service of the year in Rural Development Sector. The Award was presented to the NRBB representatives at a ceremony held at Serena Hotel Kampala. NBRB is a government agency under the Ministry of Works […]
WE MUST FIGHT COUNTERFEITS IN THE BUILDING SECTOR.
State Minister of Works and Transport Musa Ecweru has called on bodies regulating the building sector to double their efforts in the fight against inferior building methods and materials on the market. Speaking at the high level structured dialogue on counterfeits in the building sector, Ecweru warned that if the regulator sleep on job, lives […]
OKUTANGIRA EBIZIMBE OKUGWA: Waliwo kaweefube atuukiddwako
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Building methods, substandard materials blamed for collapsing buildings
Gen. Wamala wants illegal buildings demolished
Construction sites, which are found not to be following the building laws and regulations should be stopped or demolished, the minister of Works and Transport, Gen. Katumba Wamala has directed. While calling relevant authorities to action, he blamed the continued collapse of building in the country for the failure to implement building laws. Wamala said […]
Inside the turbulent origins of collapsing buildings
https://youtu.be/y8n1E9q1EyM Building accidents occur anywhere. In developed countries, buildings collapse mainly as a result of gas leak explosions, earthquakes and related changing climatic patterns, and a few times as a result of technical errors or even incompetence. But in Uganda, like elsewhere in Africa and the developing world, a scientific journal published last month by […]