Technical Assistance For The Construction A Medical Warehouse To Undp As Practical Exercise For Elaboration Of Guidelines To Building Code Revision

The purpose of this project is two-fold: on one hand to provide UNDP technical assistance for construction a modern medical warehouse per international standards and on the other to have this as a practical exercise which will help to develop the best strategy to review and update the national building code. As the Global Fund warehouse will be a public building constructed according to building code requirements, this exercise is a unique opportunity to test standards and identify bottlenecks so that UN-Habitat can provide the Ministry of Public Works, Construction and Urban Development with concrete and realistic guidelines for improving the building code so it can better respond to the local context and to the achievement of the SDG I I. UN Habitat will provide both knowledge services and high-level policy advisory throughout this project. The agency is providing knowledge services to UNDP on architecture design and construction supervision and high-level advisory services to the Government of Guinea-Bissau for the Building Code reform.