Buildings Legislations ARCC 5206C

Course description:

This course introduce the students to the law, and what it is historical evolution and its public and private sources of obligation.Regulatory authorities by law and construction regulations, building license infractions, objections, which have been applied in Palestine since the early twentieth century. Present the Palestinian organization structures planning system since 1996.Study the construction law applied in local municipalities, practice systems and the requirements shown in engineering maps and elicited to the engineers Union.

Course Aims:

This course aims to:
  • Identify local building regulation laws that found in Palestine and its historical development.
  • Identify the powers of legislation and its implementing provisions of offences and licensing, together with select referential.
  • Have a good knowledge in the business and the maps in practice systems engineering engineers syndicate, in addition to the applicable of construction regulatory act in municipalities areas, 
  • Have a good knowledge in building and licensing violations and/or objections in an attempt to examine both the provisions of the buildings and the Palestinian Organization Act of 1996.

Course outcomes:

The students upon completion of this course would be able to:
  • Understand general law and kinds and levels and properties, and good knowledge of applied buildings’ construction systems in Palestine.
  • Have depth of knowledge in local building regulations and construction laws.
  • Understand the mechanism dealing laws and legislation process,with charts and various bodies and the regulatory process sequence.