Building Inspectors from the Physical Planning Unit (PPU) of the Ministry of Finance, the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) and the Housing Authority of Grenada (HAG), as well as Engineering Assistants from the National Water and Sewerage Authority, are enrolled in the intensive five-day training session currently underway at the Flamboyant Hotel.

Two local engineers, Roger Baptiste and Carlyle Glean Jr., and Grenville Phillips of Consulting Engineers Partnership (CEP) in Barbados, are conducting the workshop.

This workshop is the second in a series for persons working within the construction sector, in an effort to integrate natural hazard resistant building practices and procedures into residential design and construction, through the application of the Construction Quality Assurance (CQA) Mechanism. The first workshop took place in December, 2006 for engineers. Future workshops are planned for contractors, drafts persons and trades persons.

Training, along with Institutional Development and Public Education, are part of the CQA Project for which the detailed Work Plan was developed by OAS Consultant Terrence Smith; in collaboration with an Advisory Group comprised of representatives from the OAS, ARD, PPU, NIS, HAG, Bankers’ Association of Grenada, Grenada Co-operative League Ltd., Ministry of Communications, Works and Transport, Ministry of Social Development, Ministry of Health and the Environment, National Disaster Management Agency, Association of Grenada Insurance Companies, Grenada Society of Architects, Construction Association of Grenada, Grenada Chamber of Industry and Commerce and Grenada Institute of Professional Engineers.