Constructors hope their PEC Licenses early renewal

Lahore : Construction Industry Regulations Committee (CIRC) of the Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC) has approved that the constructors can get their licenses renewed by the PEC after submitting an undertaking that the construction companies will employee apprentice engineer.

Welcoming this decision, Constructors Association of Pakistan (CAP) Chairman Sikandar Hayat Khattak in a statement issued here Friday, has expressed the hope that the issue of renewal of their PEC licenses will also be resolved shortly.

Constructors were facing difficulty in the renewal of their PEC licenses because of the revised guidelines of the PEC.   In absence of renewal of PEC license, the constructors were losing their business because of the condition of employment of supervisory engineers, he added.

Construction Industry Regulations Committee (CIRC) of the PEC has now approved that the PEC will obtain an undertaking from the contractors for renewal of their licenses.  Undertaking will state that the contractors will employee engineers possessing Supervisory license as per approved requirements of each category after the approval of employment of engineer as per apprentice engineer by the Government. In that case, the constructor will pay Rs. 5,000/- per month to the engineer while balance amount will be paid by the Government.

The Chairman, Constructors Association of Pakistan (CAP) Engr. Sikandar Hayat Khattak and Executive Committee Members also put in concerted efforts to resolve the issue of Supervisory Engineers to be employed by the constructors as given in the revised guideline of PEC effective from 1st January 2017.

It is expected that with the decision of CIRC, the PEC will start renewal of Constructors licenses on immediate basis and clear the dead lock in the shortest possible time, said the CAP Chairman Engr. Sikandar Hayat Khattak.