Doha, March 03 (QNA) - The Ministry of Interior, represented by the General Directorate of Civil Defense, has launched on Thursday the Civil Defense Technical Requirements Guide 2022, in a ceremony organized in the presence of a number of officials in the ministry.
The guide includes all the engineering requirements related to the reality of the building inside the country, after some of them have been updated, and other new requirements imposed as a result of the urban development, while maintaining the above requirements in line with the requirements of reality.
In a speech during the ceremony, the Director General of the General Directorate of Civil Defense Brigadier Hamad Othman Al Dhaimi affirmed the importance of this guide, which absorbed the developments in the construction sector in the country, and enhanced coordination and consultation with the relevant authorities.
He said that the committee that prepared the guide had worked diligently for more than two years, and consulted and linked channels of communication with several authorities in the country concerned with this field, so that the guide would include the required updates.
He affirmed that the technical requirements guide comes in order to develop and facilitate the services provided by the General Directorate of Civil Defense, adding that work on the guide will start from today.
The member of the technical team Captain Abdulrahman Sultan Al Ghanim, gave a presentation on the first update of the Civil Defense Technical Requirements Guide, the efforts of the committee concerned with its development and its objectives of protecting lives and property and keeping pace with the update in fire safety requirements that the international community issues on an ongoing basis, in addition to updating the requirements in line with the observations of the private sector and in coordination with the various relevant government agencies.
Captain Al Ghanim pointed out that the first version of the requirements was prepared, approved, and implemented in 2015, noting that the updates included in the guide are in line with the requirements of a number of authorities, such as Qatar Electricity and Water Corporation (KAHRAMAA), educational facilities, nurseries, and mosques, as well as what is related to people with disabilities in hotels, and the requirements for storing hazardous materials in laboratories, with the addition of a special chapter for workers accommodation buildings and the updating of ventilation requirements for warehouses and industrial facilities. (QNA)