The Tamil Nadu Urban Habitat Development Board on Monday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Anna University to perform third-party quality monitoring for its construction projects.
The board has signed similar agreements with the Centre for Urbanisation, Buildings and Environment (CUBE), which is an organisation backed by IIT-Madras and the Government of Tamil Nadu, and the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, for similar work.
The agreements were part of the board’s recent initiatives to revamp its quality control mechanisms in the wake of the controversy last year surrounding the poor quality of construction at its tenements in K.P. Park in Pulianthope here. The collapse of a 25-year-old building in Tiruvottiyur necessitated the strengthening of board’s quality control measures.
