The government-appointed Quarm-LMI Consortium, which is in charge of finishing the long-delayed Saglemi Housing Project, has promised to produce more than 1,500 housing units for public sale in 400 days.
Kofi Adabor Ofori-Amanfo, the consortium’s managing director, revealed that structural integrity tests would be carried out to evaluate the stability of the current structures.
Following a courtesy visit to the Ningo Traditional Council, Mr. Ofori-Amanfo described plans to re-engineer portions of the structures to satisfy strict safety and quality standards in an interview with the media.
“We are looking at around 400 days to make sure that the whole place is completed for sale to people. Currently, we inherited the shell structures. And some of them will go through structural integrity tests to make sure that we are not going to sell back to society, something that might just break within time”, Mr. Ofori-Amanfo said.
A $200 million contract was awarded to build 5,000 affordable housing units as part of the Saglemi Housing Project.
However, even though the contractors had received $197 million, only 1,506 apartments had been finished or were in various stages of completion by January 2017.
Source: newsthemegh.com