Arb should play key role in assessing architects' fire safety competence, says Hackitt

By Elizabeth Hopkirk2018-05-18T08:18:00

Hackitt recommends Architects Registration Board because of its review of architectural education

The Arb is set to play a key role in assessing the competence of architects to design fire-safe blocks of flats.

The body will have to consider the competence levels of architects already on the register as well as those applying to join, under a proposal contained in the Hackitt report. A tougher system of CPD accreditation is likely to be part of the process.

Dame Judith Hackitt identified the Arb as the body to lead the work because its current review of the UK standards in education for architecture graduates could be used to “look critically at the level of fire safety design within those standards”.

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