Obviously you should have e-mailed me with this ..
However, since I am currently in NC, I have not even bothered to see my mountains of emails..
That said: Rubenn was a lttle off, since CODIA-the national licensing board for engineers and architects, can tell you WHO they are, but not WHAT they are.
There fore you taalk to the people there in Las Galeras-you know who...
As far as construction goes, I have a wooden house on the beach and never a problem in over thirty years..
Considering that we are in a seismologicaly active area, good construction is needed, and you can get it. Calculate, at current costs about RD$5,000 per sq. mt. for construction at "decent" to "better than average" work...
HB