Policy for audit of high-rise apartment buildings in Noida approved

Noida: The Noida Authority board has approved a policy proposal for a structural audit of high-rise buildings in the city, according to an official statement.

The policy defines the roles and responsibilities of the builder as well as the residents’ association vis-a-vis repair of structures if found defective during the audit.

The decision was taken during the 207th board meeting of the Noida Authority held at its office in Sector 6 on Saturday.

The meeting was chaired by Uttar Pradesh Infrastructure and Industrial Development Commissioner and Noida Authority chairman Arvind Kumar with Noida Authority chief executive officer Ritu Maheshwari in his presence.

While the policy has been approved by the board, it would take around a week for it to get implemented due to paperwork at the local level, a senior official told PTI.

There are around 100 high-rise projects in Noida, many of them having multiple towers, the official added.

In relation to the structural audit of multi-storey buildings located in the authority area, the statement read: “the structural policy was prepared by the Noida Authority on the demand of flat buyers and AOA (apartment owner’s association), in which the Structural Audit Policy has been approved by the Authority Board with partial modifications”.

“According to this policy, the structural audit report from empanelled IIT or NIT or expert institutions will be submitted by the developer before the partial or full occupancy certificate is issued,” according to the statement.

It stated that even after the issuance of a partial or full occupancy certificate, if 25 per cent or more allottees of the tower complain about structural defects, the committee constituted at the authority level will examine the complaint and decide whether the structural defect is of minor category or comes under major category.

“For structural defects of major category, the structural audit will be conducted by expert institutions. Under the Apartment Ownership Act, it is the responsibility of the builder to remove the structural defects within two years,” it stated.

“According to the RERA Act, the responsibility of removing the structural defects rests with the builder for five years and after five years with the AOA. This period will be calculated after the issue of occupancy certificate of the entire scheme,” according to the statement.

At present, it has been decided by the Board that if the structural audit report comes negative, then the structural defects will be removed by the builder within five years from the date of issue of occupancy, it stated.

In the cases of a two to five years period, the authority will inform the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA) to get the action taken by the builder to rectify the deficiencies found after getting the audit done by the empanelled agency, it added.

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