Requirements for pipelines in Vietnam

According to Article 18 of Decree No. 39/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, requirements for pipelines are as follows:

- Survey requirements:

+ Surveys must express the current topographical, geological and hydrological conditions and underground as well as on-ground works in order to serve designing and construction activities;

+ The technical requirements on surveys prescribed in the technical regulations for each type of works must be met.

- Construction designing requirements:

+ To comply with urban and urban underground construction space planning approved by competent authorities. If the urban planning or urban underground construction space planning is not yet available, agreement of local planning management agency is required:

+ To comply with technical regulations applicable to each type of works;

+ Construction designing must ensure the synchronous arrangement of pipelines, wire and cable lines to subscribers, and load, suitable to the common technical infrastructure system of the urban center and describe appropriate processes of operation, use and maintenance of works;

+ Designing consultancy must take into account and forecast the demands for use of wirelines, technical pipelines in order to determine the sizes of technical trenches or culverts and tanks suitable to urban development planning and plans.

View more details at Decree No. 39/2010/NĐ-CP of Vietnam’s Government, effective from July 30, 2010.

Nguyen Phu

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