Infrastructure is widely affected due to changing climatic conditions - Konrote

Due to the changing climatic conditions experienced around the globe, today’s infrastructure is widely affected.

This was highlighted by the President Jioji Konrote while officiating at the International Symposium on Sustainable Infrastructure.

Konrote says that there is a need for experts like construction engineers to re-look at the building code and provide recommendation on how the building code can be effectively applied across different boundaries and sectors.

He also shared Fiji’s experience of Tropical Cyclone Winston displacing close to 45,000 Fijians with a cost of $3 billion spent after the devastation.

The President says construction activities are being undertaken within urban and rural boundaries, and there is a need to standardize the construction requirement for housing in different boundaries.

Konrote says this is to ensure that its requirement are simple, practical for implementation and also affordable for people living and constructing within these areas.

The symposium brought together over 300 participants from more than 30 countries covering Africa, Europe, Asia and the Pacific.