Architects play a crucial role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well. As the professional regulator, ARB’s main function is to ensure all those who are on the UK Register are competent. We do this in a number of ways, but this consultation is about a fundamental overhaul of the regulatory framework for the education and training of architects. This means we are proposing to change the way in which we ensure those who study...More
ARB has been given new powers in the Building Safety Act 2022 to monitor the training and development architects carry out throughout their careers. When ARB’s new CPD scheme is introduced, it will be mandatory. All architects on the UK Register will have to confirm they have undertaken CPD on an annual basis, as a condition of their ongoing registration.
This consultation invites views on the detail of ARB’s scheme before it is finalised and introduced. Draft guidance on...More
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act 1997. We are accountable to government.
The law gives us a number of core functions:
To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects.
We maintain a publicly available Register of...More
Introduction
The ARB is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act, in 1997.
We are accountable to government.
The law gives us a number of core functions which include:
Ensuring only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the architecture qualifications required to join the...More
ARB’s role and the Register of Architects
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is an independent professional regulator, established by Parliament as a statutory body, through the Architects Act, in 1997. We are accountable to government.
The law gives us a number of core functions:
To ensure only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the UK Register of Architects.
We...More
The regulatory requirement for PII
As the statutory regulator for the architects' profession, ARB ensures only those who are suitably competent are allowed to practise as architects. We do this by approving the qualifications required to join the Register of Architects. We set the standards of conduct and practice the profession must meet and take action when any architect falls below the required standards of conduct or competence.
ARB expects all...More
This survey closed on Monday 10th January 2022.
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the regulator of the architect profession. Architects play a vital role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well.
ARB’s duties are set in legislation and require ARB to:
Maintain the Architects Register, the definitive record of all UK architects
Set the education and training...More
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the professional regulator of architects. We maintain a Register to protect the public, so that anyone using an architect’s services, or a building designed by an architect, can be reassured that the design has been developed by an appropriately qualified person. As part of its role in maintaining the Register, ARB must take action where serious concerns are raised about the conduct or competence of an architect.
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This survey closed on Monday 29th November 2021. ARB will now be analysing responses and will publish a report of our findings in 2022.
The Architects Registration Board (ARB) is the regulator of the architect profession. Architects play a vital role in creating a built environment that is safe, sustainable and where everyone in society can live well.
ARB’s duties are set in legislation and require ARB to:
Maintain the Architects Register, the definitive record of all UK...More