Daily Monitor
Thursday March 11 2021
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The move seeks to equip them with better skills as well as enforcing construction standards.
Speaking during the World Engineers’ day in Kampala, Dr Isaac Mutenyo, the Engineers Registration Board chairman, said unlike the past when they paid attention to only engineers graduating through universities, they are now extending regulation to technicians with diplomas and certificates from technical vocational schools because they are the main culprits in failing standards.
“We have been having a challenge of shoddy work and collapsing buildings. We are forging the way forward. Previously we were regulating only engineers with university degrees,” he said, noting that during construction, technicians support the brains of engineers on the site yet they do not know their potential and skills set.