Lacking professional inspections

Lacking professional inspections in Panama

In buildings, the thing is more serious. The structural phase, which largely depends on building security, is vital. It is known that concrete does not meet the required strength at 28 days of drainage. Demanding structural inspectors require the demolition of concrete columns and structural walls of poor quality. Slabs are cast in the midst of torrential downpours, where all had suspended the inspector in charge, but their absence allows the contractor to continue work unperturbed, knowing that he will not live there.

I have seen casts of asphalt in the middle of the rainy time of Noah's ark, but no one took it. Vi replace flagstones on the path Ricardo J. Alfaro, slabs that failed due to lack of adequate drainage, repeating the same error when merged the previous time, without inspecting the review.

Who should inspect the works? Its true owner, the bank granted a mortgage. A skillful salesman convinces us embark on the buying, but whom we sell the bank. Through well-studied contract stipulates that payment of monthly installments for about 20 years, the bank assures payment. These are clauses that determine if you fail to comply, state debt and the deadline will pass property to their hands, not to the promoter and distant, but the bank, the real owner until the last installment. Therefore, I must impose the presence of a special inspection that meets the quality of the work, the mortgage bank.

In Panama we have excellent engineers and great construction companies from different specialties, but outside the industry sponsors are invading the territory of the construction, arming businesses with personal lack of ability and experience. Too often the complaint is known on the walls of flowing water, which burst floors, tiles falling off, windows that filter, or pumps that do not rise to the water storage tank.

So far, no building has collapsed, but the problems are exaggerated and the size of the buildings makes them much more severe.

In the case of roads, there is no doubt that the inspection is inefficient. The roads are designed for a maximum speed that is advertised by multiple signs. Except very pronounced curve design speed should remain constant. According to the magnitude of the curve is designed cannot, which is the inclination of the road inside the centrifugal force so that the vehicle does not shoot out. It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Public Works (MOP) has significantly failed in overseeing the design contract and construction of roads, highways and corridors of producing very low quality and dangerous stretches of bringing us all too often fatal in same sites. The MOP should be no land of renowned specialists in the field inexperienced supervisors road.