The RIBA has set out its approach to ensure a competent built environment profession’ in ‘Repeal, Reserve, Regulate: Our campaign for a competence-led approach to regulating the built environment for the public good’.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) writes:
As the government looks at the future of regulating the built environment, we have set out our approach to ensure a competent built environment profession. Our proposals for reform are set out in three steps: repeal, reserve, regulate.
REPEAL the Architects Act
The Architects Act 1997 is the current legislation that regulates the use of the title ‘architect’ in the UK. This does little to ensure competence of the profession and therefore, it is ineffective and should be repealed.
RESERVE defined activities to suitably competent professionals
Instead?a new piece of legislation for the built environment should be introduced which would set out exactly which suitably competent (chartered) professionals were able to undertake reserved activities, which include?submitting?full planning applications, building control applications and final compliance certificates.?
REGULATE through a Built Environment Council
The government should create a Built Environment Council. This new Council would oversee the construction industry chartered professional bodies who would assess the competence of individuals.?
A??competence-based model delivers two things the current system?lacks:?
- public?protection?-?ensuring that those responsible for?the critical decisions in our?buildings have the specific, tested skills?and competences?required?for the?task, and?clarity
- accountability?- with?reserved?activities,?there?will?be no ambiguity about who?is responsible for?what
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