Joel Arumonyang Principal Secretary of Public Works, Tom Onyango Oketch Chairman ICPMK, and Maurice Akech Executive Director, National Construction Authority during a previous stakeholder engagement. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]

The State Department for Public Works has agreed to have construction managers recognised in the law alongside other professionals in the building sector after a petition from their umbrella body.

The petition presented to Principal Secretary State Department for Public Works Joel Arumonyang notes the lack of a legal framework for construction managers or construction project managers in the country.

Additionally, a bill that was drafted to recognise this quota of building professionals is yet to see the light of day notwithstanding that institutions of higher learning are offering courses and releasing graduates into the market with these skills.

It is also noted in the letter dated August 5, 2024, addressed to the PS that the newly developed National Building Code does not recognise them.

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