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The Banco de Fomento Agropecuario requires the construction of a building to function as an annex archive of the institution.
El Salvador Government Purchase LP-05/2021:
"The construction of the BFA building will be a structure with cement block walls, reinforced concrete foundations, aluminum sheet roof structure, zinc and electric network.
More than two years after an initiative was presented in Guatemala to create an autonomous entity made up of the government and private investors, which would be in charge of planning and executing road works, the proposal has not yet received the endorsement of the Legislative and the road network is still in poor condition.
During the National Meeting of Entrepreneurs (Enade) 2017 the proposal to create the Superintendence of Road Infrastructure (Sivial) arose, an institution that would be an autonomous entity with the function of planning, tendering and contracting infrastructure works.
In Panama, the elected government will have among its main challenges to facilitate the necessary conditions for the reactivation of construction in the country, which has reported negative figures for the last two years.
Since the beginning of 2017 investments in construction in the country have decreased and the situation does not seem to improve. Data from the Office of the General Comptroller of the Republic detail that the performance of the construction sector in 2018 was negative, as the cost of new construction, additions and repairs totaled $1,311 million, a figure 39% lower than the $2,144 million reported in 2017.
The plan put forward by the Panamanian government will define, in the cities of Panama and Colon, areas that can be used as development poles, and establish risk zones in which interventions are not allowed.
The Ministry of Housing and Territorial Planning (Miviot) presented the Urban Development Plan for the Metropolitan Areas of the Pacific and the Atlantic, and through a statement reported that "...
In order to resolve the problem of delays in approving environmental impact permits, in Costa Rica industrial sector employers support a proposal for the National Technical Secretariat to intervene.
Arguing that "it affects them negatively", the Chamber of Industries of Costa Rica (ICRC), supports the intervention of the National Technical Secretariat (Setena) requested last Wednesday by the Christian Social Unity Party (PUSC).
In the four years that the law of associations between the State and private companies in El Salvador has been in effect, not a single infrastructure project has been able to materialize using this business scheme.
Although there are at least seven infrastructure projects that were initially proposed as being those with the highest priority and ideals to be developed under the public-private partnership scheme and with funding from Fomilenio II, none of them has managed to materialize.
The Government of Guatemala plans to delegate to the United Nations Office for Project Services the supervision and execution of road works valued at more than $500 million.
The fate of road projects essential for the development of Guatemala could be as bad as some of those in Costa Rica, which have also been delegated to the United Nations Office of Projects (UNOPS).See "Challenges to the work of UNOPS".
The new Empresa Pública de Saneamiento de Panamá will be in charge of the sanitation projects of the cities of Panama, Arraiján and La Chorrera.
From a statement issued by the Presidency of Panama:
With the aim of providing the population with better sewage and sanitation and services, the Cabinet Council today approved the creation of the Saneamiento de Panamá, S.A.
Obtaining a building permit can require filling out 21 pieces of paperwork in eight different entities, which can take up to 276 business days before a response is received.
A study carried out by the Regulatory Improvement Organization (OMR by its initials in Spanish), which operates under the framework of FOMILENIO II, concluded that on top of the 276 days timeframe in responding to builders,"...
In Panama the trade union claims that there are now 180 procedures which must be carried out with 20 different institutions in order to obtain the necessary permits for a construction project.
An excess of procedures and requirements that must be completed in order to develop real estate projects in the country remains one of the main problems affecting the development of the construction sector in Panama.A study prepared at the request of the Panamanian Chamber of Construction (CAPAC) reveals that"... there has been a decrease in the number of building permits, a reduction in the number of mortgages and a high inventory of high-cost apartments and offices."
Institutions such as the UNOPS, which supposedly come here to do what the locals can not, should be paid per piece of work for they finish, and not allowed to justify their failures with the same old excuses.
EDITORIAL By Jorge Cobas González
An entrepreneur earns when his business is successful.If it fails to capture a minimum market share and then maintain it, the investment made is lost, and the monthly income established by the performance of its business activities is also lost.Employers charge for their work and earn profits only while the company is successful.The same is true of private-company employees: their wages are tied to company earnings and profits.
The construction company has one week to respond to the proposal put forward by the Panamanian government, which is geared towards cancelling the award of the Chan II hydroelectric station at no cost to the State.
The Ministry of Finance submitted the proposal to the Brazilian construction company on January 26, and it has one week to respond and start to coordinate the withdrawal from the construction project on the dam now known as Bocas del Toro.