Housing, the most complex social problem in the country, stressed the Cuban President
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- Published: Tuesday, 19 March 2019 08:38
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Photo: GranmaHavana, March 19.- From this year we must begin to mark different milestones in the construction of housing, highlighted monday Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez, President of the Councils of State and Ministers, to summarize the meeting where the results were analyzed of the Ministry of Construction (MICONS) in 2018 and its short-term projections.
He supported this words by describing the Housing Policy, approved last December by Parliament, as accurate and coherent. What we need - he said - is to enforce it, based on a main element: how to produce more materials on a local scale and create conditions with a view to each municipality manufacturing daily what is necessary to build a house, a concept to be transferred to popular councils.
Such a strategy will guarantee that in ten years it will have a huge impact on this program, the most complex social problem in the country, the Cuban President stressed.
In his speech he stressed that the construction branch has a relevant importance, given its relationship with all economic and social advancement programs; although it exhorted to work with quality and the efficiency of the investing process, especially of the works related to the use of renewable sources of energy.
The evaluation of the essential attributes for a painting was not lacking in its considerations and more in this sector, where the constant bond with the workers in the works is basic.
In the best management of their work - pointed out - correct systems and concepts of work must be imbricated, the proactive action before the problems and expositions, besides the disposition to attend them and give them solution.
Diaz-Canel reflected that an element to consider is the reduction of obstacles and bureaucracy, because although in smaller amounts than in other sectors, there is delay in some processes, in the process of housing, and exemplified that despite the constructive effort in 2018 , almost 60% of the finished houses are without habitable certification. We solved a problem for people, but they have another, he said.
Regarding what was stated in the report about the violations of consumption rates and norms, he warned that this leads to theft and illegalities, behaviors that must be resolutely confronted.
He also urged the improvement of work with forms of non-state management, in order to link them more in terms of ongoing economic and social programs; to the productive chains; to encourage foreign investment and to increase exports and identify other lines beyond those already recognized as marble, special cements and integral services.
He described as complex the situation of roads throughout the country, in whose solution the ongoing concept in housing construction should be applied.
SHORT TERM SOLUTIONS
The decisive role of the union in attracting the most able and with leadership to supply the deficit of middle management was one of the agreements emanated from the debate on the subject, promoted by the Commander of the Revolution Ramiro Valdés Menéndez, member of the Political Bureau of the Party and vice president of the Councils of State and Ministers, who addressed the importance of political-ideological work and that people do not forget their commitment to the Homeland.
Regarding the response of the construction materials industry to current and future demands, Francisco Díaz, president of the higher economic organization responsible for this branch, stressed that in addition to the objective problems other organizations, generators have gravitated of defaults.
He informed that this year they expect to produce 1 670 000 tonnes of cement and that with the planned maintenance at the Mariel plant, this industry will reach better parameters, such as that of Cienfuegos, which last February achieved 84,000 tonnes, some 30,000 more than planned for a month.
Extending the link with other organizations for the manufacture of spare parts and equipment and consolidating the local production of construction materials are among the challenges.
René Mesa Villafaña, owner of Micons, said that there is an installed capacity to achieve more than a year
7,000,000 m3 of aggregates, but the possibilities in non-technological activities are lower, which forces something that is broken: the qualification of double and triple shifts in the quarries front.
Among other positive experiences there was talk of the generalization of BIM technology to all the project companies of the body's design group and its necessary expansion to the rest of the structures, which means saving resources, quality and agility in the development of projects and execution of the works. (Granma)
