Quarm-LMI Consortium, appointed by the government to complete the long-delayed Saglemi Housing Project, has committed to delivering over 1,500 housing units within 400 days for public sale.
Managing Director of the consortium, Kofi Adabor Ofori-Amanfo disclosed that structural integrity tests would be conducted to assess the stability of the existing buildings.
Speaking to the media after a courtesy visit to the Ningo Traditional Council, Mr. Ofori-Amanfo detailed plans for re-engineering parts of the structures to ensure they meet stringent safety and quality standards.
“We are looking at around 400 days to make sure that the whole place is completed for sale to people. Currently, we inherited the shell structures. And some of them will go through structural integrity tests to make sure that we are not going to sell back to society, something that might just break within time”, he said.
The Saglemi Housing Project was initiated with a $200 million contract to construct 5,000 affordable housing units.
However, by January 2017, only 1,506 units had been completed or at various stages of completion despite $197 million having been paid to the contractors.