Builders in Gurugram asked to submit layouts for structural test

GURUGRAM: The department of town and country planning (DTCP) has issued notices to developers to submit building drawings of their projects to start a structural audit process at the earliest.

The structural audit process of 23 highrise residential societies, which was to begin last week, got delayed as developers are yet to furnish building drawings, officials said. Once the drawings are submitted, the structural audit agencies will calculate the cost of the audit which will be
shared between developers and RWAs.

In the order to the management of developer companies, district town planner (enforcement) Manish Yadav said that the structural audit of 23 residential societies is to be carried out by four agencies and developers of these societies have been directed to submit the building drawings in
the office of DTP.

“Only after the submission of the drawings, the expenditure on the audit can be estimated and the work can be started. After the amount is assessed, the builder management and RWA will be ordered to share the
expenses,” he said.

The societies to be audited in the second phase are CHD Avenue, Paras Dews, Raheja Atharva, Raheja Navodaya, Hermitage Satya, Takshashila Heights, Ansal Estella, Vatika G-21, Wembley Estate, ATS Tourmaline, Indiabulls Centrum Park, Orris Aster Court, GPL Eden Heights,
Parsvnath Green Ville, Orris Carnation, Coralwood, Aloha Apartments, Vipul Lavanya, BPTP Park Sareen, Bestech Park View Ananda, NBCC Heights, Hibiscus and others.

In May, the district administration had ordered visual inspection of 55 highrise societies in which four structural audit agencies were to check the buildings on various checkpoints, including overall maintenance of the building, plastering, leakage, seepage, dampness and cracks in the
basement, beam, slab and floor dampness, condition of water tanks and shafts built on the roof of the building.

Meanwhile, the second round of structural audit of 15 societies selected in the first phase was to begin from July 10. In the second round, various lab tests were recommended by the structural audit agencies. “The developers of 15 highrise residential societies, for which visual audit
was done and laboratory test were to be done in second round, were issued notices and they were ordered to get the lab test done or take the NOC, consent letter from the RWA and submit it to the DTCP office,” Yadav said.