On 16/08/2019, the Ministry of Construction issued Circular No. 04/2019/TT-BXD amending and supplementing a number of contents of Circular No. 26/2016/TT-BXD of 26/10/2016 of The Minister of Construction shall detail a number of contents on quality management and construction maintenance. Circular 04/2019 / TT-BXD takes effect from 01/10/2019.
Accordingly, in Clause 5, Article 1 of Circular 04/2019 / TT-BXD, supplementing Article 15a, Article 15b after Article 15 of Circular No. 26/2016 / TT-BXD, regarding the construction supervision in the past Construction process is carried out in the following cases:
Follow regulations of approved construction design, technical instructions, construction measures;
When the project has abnormal expression, it needs to be monitored for the assessment, determine the cause to take measures to handle and prevent construction incidents during construction.
Construction contractors are responsible for implementing monitoring in the above cases and in accordance with construction contracts with the following responsibilities:
Prepare a monitoring proposal for investors to accept;
Organization to conduct monitoring according to the approved outline; making reports and evaluating monitoring results.
In addition, investors can choose contractors independent from construction contractors to perform some monitoring during the construction process.
The promulgation of Circular 04/2019/TT-BXD is to supplement regulations related to quality management and maintenance of construction works, creating strict management of state agencies in monitoring quality construction, while enhancing the responsibility of contractors as well as investors.