{"id":236222,"date":"2026-06-13T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-regulatory-authorities-urged-to-enforce-building-regulations\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T17:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T15:51:36","slug":"ghana-regulatory-authorities-urged-to-enforce-building-regulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-regulatory-authorities-urged-to-enforce-building-regulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Regulatory Authorities Urged to Enforce Building Regulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Regulatory authorities have been urged to strictly enforce existing building regulations to curb the increasing incidence of building collapses across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The call followed preliminary investigations into recent building failures which revealed widespread disregard for permit requirements, approved building standards and professional supervision, as well as lapses in regulatory enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Chairman of the Structural Subdivision of the Ghana Institution of Engineering (GhIE), Joshua&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606120376.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulatory authorities have been urged to strictly enforce existing building regulations to curb the increasing incidence of building collapses across the country. The call followed preliminary investigations into recent building failures which revealed widespread disregard for permit requirements, approved building standards and professional supervision, as well as lapses in regulatory enforcement. The Chairman of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":236223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7215,6797,9526,4508,4509,257,14785,6098,254,6206],"class_list":["post-236222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authorities","tag-building","tag-enforce","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-regulations","tag-regulatory","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}