Economy Profile: Burundi - Doing Business
Economy Profile: Burundi - Doing Business
Economy Profile: Burundi - Doing Business
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<strong>Doing</strong> <strong>Business</strong> 2013<br />
<strong>Burundi</strong><br />
30<br />
DEALING WITH CONSTRUCTION PERMITS<br />
What are the details?<br />
The indicators reported here for <strong>Burundi</strong> are based<br />
on a set of specific procedures—the steps that a<br />
company must complete to legally build a<br />
warehouse—identified by <strong>Doing</strong> <strong>Business</strong> through<br />
information collected from experts in construction<br />
licensing, including architects, construction<br />
lawyers, construction firms, utility service providers<br />
and public officials who deal with building<br />
regulations. These procedures are those that apply<br />
to a company and structure matching the standard<br />
assumptions used by <strong>Doing</strong> <strong>Business</strong> in collecting<br />
the data (see the section in this chapter on what<br />
the indicators cover).<br />
BUILDING A WAREHOUSE<br />
City :<br />
Estimated<br />
Warehouse Value :<br />
Bujumbura<br />
BIF 715,330,000<br />
The procedures, along with the associated time and<br />
cost, are summarized below.<br />
Summary of procedures for dealing with construction permits in <strong>Burundi</strong> —and the time and cost<br />
No.<br />
Procedure<br />
Perform a geotechnical study<br />
Time to<br />
complete<br />
Cost to complete<br />
1<br />
The National Laboratory for Building Construction and Public Works<br />
(Laboratoire National Du Bâtiment et des Travaux Publics) in <strong>Burundi</strong><br />
changed its fee structure starting May 2011. As a result, the cost to<br />
obtain a geotechnical study was reduced from BIF 6,500,000.00 to BIF<br />
2,574,460.00.<br />
14 days BIF 600,000<br />
Fees are based on a maximum calculation (Maximum d'essais), which<br />
comprises all the verifications the National Laboratory of Construction<br />
and Public Works has to do.<br />
Submit application for the building permit at the DGHU<br />
Document needed for the building permit:<br />
2<br />
• Property Title + 1 copy<br />
• Original Payment receipt of the “Frais de viabilisation” + 1 copy<br />
• Original “Proces Verbal de bornage et d’arpentage” (obtain when the<br />
property title is being processed on the bare land) + 1 copy<br />
• Construction plans: Vues en plan, facades, coupe, plan d’implantation<br />
(4 copies of each)<br />
• Estimated cost of construction: original + 3 copies<br />
• Septic tank plan: original + 3 copies<br />
• Structural plan since it is a G +1: original + 1 copies<br />
• Geotechnical study: Original + 1 copies (since it is a G +1)<br />
G + 1 = Ground level + 1 floor<br />
1 day no charge<br />
The files are submitted at the ‘Service de Control de la DGHU’, which in<br />
turn will formally them internally to the Service de L’instruction.<br />
Applicants are instructed to come back to the DGHU 3 days after