April 21 & 22, 2011
Japanese Communist Party member of the Miyagi Prefectural Assembly Endo Ikuko on April 21 urged the prefecture to request the state to increase the budget for construction costs per temporary dwelling at a prefectural assembly welfare committee meeting.
The Disaster Relief Act states that the construction cost per temporary dwelling should be less than 2,387,000 yen. The prefectural government is planning to build 30,000 temporary homes by the end of September.
Endo said that the construction of temporary housing in areas with cold winters needs more money for insulation materials used in roofs and floors and for materials to prevent moisture condensation. She also said that lowering the unit price of building temporary homes will bring financial difficulties to sub-contractors.
Referring to the fact that when another major earthquake occurred three years ago, the government raised the construction cost to 4.5 million yen from the then existing standards, Endo said that the prefectural government should ask the central government to do the same.
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Japanese Communist Party representative Kokuta Keiji on April 21 in a Lower House Land Committee meeting urged the government to give contracts for the construction of temporary dwellings to local companies in order to best benefit the local economies.
Kokuta stated that if major construction companies receive the government contracts, local firms in disaster-stricken areas will become sub- or sub-sub-contractors with very low contract payments because the original contract payment will be eaten up by intermediate contractors.
Citing the Mizagi Prefectural government’s policy enabling its municipal governments to give construction contracts directly to their local companies, Kokuta demanded that the government also encourage disaster-hit local governments to place construction contracts with their local companies.
The Disaster Relief Act states that the construction cost per temporary dwelling should be less than 2,387,000 yen. The prefectural government is planning to build 30,000 temporary homes by the end of September.
Endo said that the construction of temporary housing in areas with cold winters needs more money for insulation materials used in roofs and floors and for materials to prevent moisture condensation. She also said that lowering the unit price of building temporary homes will bring financial difficulties to sub-contractors.
Referring to the fact that when another major earthquake occurred three years ago, the government raised the construction cost to 4.5 million yen from the then existing standards, Endo said that the prefectural government should ask the central government to do the same.
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Japanese Communist Party representative Kokuta Keiji on April 21 in a Lower House Land Committee meeting urged the government to give contracts for the construction of temporary dwellings to local companies in order to best benefit the local economies.
Kokuta stated that if major construction companies receive the government contracts, local firms in disaster-stricken areas will become sub- or sub-sub-contractors with very low contract payments because the original contract payment will be eaten up by intermediate contractors.
Citing the Mizagi Prefectural government’s policy enabling its municipal governments to give construction contracts directly to their local companies, Kokuta demanded that the government also encourage disaster-hit local governments to place construction contracts with their local companies.
