Of course, as a whole project of this size and in populated areas and as well as what requires to carry out procedures of special field to facilitate the business, we faced many obstacles and difficulties that are needed to overcome a lot of time and effort, from its early stages through the phase of preparing the master plan studies and up to the stages of implementation, these obstacles can be summarized as the following:

Legal obstacles and compensation
- The absence of necessary legislation:
To date, there was no law which required the reconstruction effort to convince concerned people that what we are doing is consistent with the spirit of the law and public order.
- Determine the value of compensation and the delay of payment:
-the compensation of the reconstruction has been determine from the Lebanese government for each residential unit to $ 46.666 regardless of the size and division of two groups ( disposal of the first payment will be immediate and the second will be at the completion of construction of buildings and structures).
- The compensation of reconstruction was determined per square meter of warehouse (below deck), $ 200 that the compensation does not exceed $ 133.333 regardless of the area.
- The total assessed compensation cover only 45% of the cost of reconstruction. However, the process of compensation has not kept pace of reconstruction in equal, for example; while the proportion of the work of reconstruction exceeded 95%, what was given from the Lebanese government for the owners does not exceed 30% of the total cost… It is realized that Waad project works on restoring the surplus of the owners paid amounts to those who their cost of reconstruction is less than compensation, at the same time Waad covered the additional cost to those who they need more than the cost of re-compensation.

Collection and documentation
- The preparation of the master plan and studies required to collect all the required documents to form the basis of adequate data and information such as:
   - Maps settlement and secretion
   - Aerial photographs
   - Pictures of buildings from the outside and inside
   - specification forms for buildings
   - Maps lifting of the lower floors in some cases
- Strengthening and drilling:
- most of the buildings destroyed are beside other buildings which still standing as we already noticed. Therefore, it was necessary to take measures of protection and prevention to maintain public safety and obstacles in this file:
-The High Commission for Relief, a body that was cleared up on merely removes the buildings to the level of the ground floor and therefore the completion of this file was the tasks of Waad project.
- Technical difficulties in completing the consolidation of the presence of buildings and infrastructure nearby, also no sufficient number of companies specialized in this field were available.
- In addition to the above, the Lebanese government did not notice the financial compensation for this file (consolidation).

Lessons, contracting and supervision
With respect to corporation, it contracted with 48 Office to prepare the necessary studies, which were responsive significantly particularly in terms of the amendments that were attached to the studies because of the privacy of the file from the hand approach the aforementioned reality and for this segment of the social peculiarities reflected in the design set.
Waad had put a draft from the early stages set as conditions for the classification of contractors in preparation for the assignment and was insistent to raise the ceiling on these conditions to limit the construction to major corporations and world order to accelerate the business, but when the bidding and at the moment of specific policies, all these big companies pulled out.
Therefore Waad resorted to the local companies, and contracted with 23 companies and contractors, which bore more than its potentials, and that was what affected the timetable for completion.
Also with respect to supervision of companies, what applies to the construction companies in terms of volume of business also made Waad to create support units for these companies (and Quality Unit, follow-up statements Unit ...).

Employment
The construction sector in Lebanon is based mainly on Syrian workers and come back here to the political circumstances that had a significant impact on the size and the presence of such employment at each joint political and reflected negatively on the conduct of business.

Follow-owners
Within the overall vision and goals developed by Waad project, was to make way for the owners, as we mentioned before, to participate in the reconstruction through the following:
-requiring the owners’ approval to the studies.
- giving the owners the opportunity to make internal adjustments.
- opening the door for owners to choose some materials (tiles, ceramics, kitchen cabinets, colors of the sinks...).

Follow up with official institutions
The follow-up with the relevant official institutions (municipalities, electricity, water and telephone ministries...) was an obstacle cannot be overlooked. In many cases, Waad was completing the project while buildings had not all the other services, forcing the project in cooperation with the municipalities concerned to implement some infrastructure work at Waad’s expense. It also forced the project to set up a special unit to follow up these files.