Chamber of Construction highlights public-private partnership for new housing

Published at: 10/07/2026 08:48 PM

The Bolivarian Chamber of Construction proposes a public and private alliance to face the second phase of the seismic emergency that corresponds to the construction of housing for families who lost everything, its president, Gerson Hernández, reported this Friday, July 10.

In the special program Venezuela Renace, on Venezolana de Televisión (VTV), he said that “this is what is really going to come in terms of construction; we are proposing public and private alliances, because the chamber not only houses builders, but also has input manufacturers, so we already have conversations with the Minister of Industry and Commerce, Luis Villegas.”

Hernández noted that this planning scheduled for the second phase, which he considered should be about to begin in about 10 days, “the Chamber has been constantly supporting the initiative that could handle the entire issue of land, the feasibility of construction systems, how it can be operated in both public and private buildings that are about to be completed.”

I also state that they have already held meetings in La Guaira, with various institutions, such as the Ministry of Popular Power for Ecosocialism; and the Ministry of Habitat and Housing, for the use of machinery that allows certain spaces to be adapted for the construction of new housing buildings.

“It's not specified yet, because of the subject of the studies, that's what needs to be done beforehand, to determine what conditions these soils were in,” he said and warned that on the coast the soils are sandy that have already been committed to various situations, such as the flood of 1999.

He commented that the Chamber of Construction supports studies and analyses of what the structures looked like. “All of this, we can really incorporate ourselves there, into the methodology, the construction systems that we can implement. We have collaborated in an organized, planned manner under the direction of the Ministry of Habitat and Housing,” he added.

Hernández indicated that advice is received from engineering professionals from Panama and from North American companies.

He reported that the models and construction systems at the national level for dealing with earthquakes were not prepared for that, because the norm in Venezuela was up to a magnitude of seven.

He also considered that there are buildings that fell in a shocking way because they were not prepared for that, not because they were poor constructions, but because of the strength and magnitude they endured and that exceeded the norm.

“We haven't had the opportunity, because the dynamics have not allowed us to sit with them, but the Presidential Commission is evaluating those studies; we hope that at any time we will sit down, receive information, because our productive capacities are at our disposal, because we are there. This type of advice is necessary for us to be able to adapt, especially the phenomenon that we have just suffered with the double earthquake,” he said.