THE Pacific Region Infrastructure Facility is looking at assisting Government in getting in overseas technical experts in the construction industry to assist in reviewing the outdated national building code.
Speaking at a national building code workshop at Novotel Suva Lami Bay in Lami yesterday, facility technical officer Jane Romero said they were the co-ordinating body of the Asian Development Bank, EU, World Bank, US, New Zealand and Australia.
“The assistance provided will be delivered in an effective manner, in Fiji it should always be about the resilience of buildings, we will try to look at that. We need to see whether the building codes are relevant to the current change in weather patterns and the occurrence of natural disasters.
“Having the task to bring in experts, the technical experts of the building code somehow are still relevant,” she said.
Mrs Romero said discussions were in progress with the World Bank, focused on single-storey houses.
“We don’t have a specific time frame when they are coming in. We are looking at the road map on the review that is needed. The reviewing of the building code doesn’t solve all the problems, we can have the best building codes but if it’s not enforced, it will not solve the problem,” she said.
