ESD

Engineering Services Division
The Division is focused on ensuring that buildings are designed and built in compliance with standard code of practice for safe and comfortable habitation and conserving traditional Bhutanese architecture. Furthermore, the Division is also responsible for promotion of high quality, cost-effective, environmentally friendly building infrastructures and adoption of new and appropriate construction materials and technologies.

Mandates:
•Accord Technical Sanction.
•Provide Engineering services (Planning, designing, preparing estimates, bidding documents and tendering, building valuation).
•Compliance checking of building drawings.
•Study and Develop various engineering manuals and guidelines.
•Prepare and publish Bhutan Schedule of Rates annually (guidelines/coefficients/specifications).
•Capacity Building of Dzongkhag Engineers and their management.
•Co-ordinate Annual Engineering conference and Council of Engineers Meeting.