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ARCON BEGINS PROJECT REGISTRATION, PLANS ENFORCEMENT UNIT.

In a bid to eliminate quackery in architectural practice, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has announced plans to set up an enforcement and compliance unit, which will ensure that only registered members handle architectural projects in the country. The council in a statement said that the measures would be in consonance with the extant laws and complement the content and spirit of the National building codes. According to ARCON President, Sir Dipo Ajayi, the unit will ensure that only professionals with the requisite knowledge and expertise of the building process are engaged to carry out building projects and are duly governed by the various Acts in the statute books. “The Council is working in concert with other interest groups to get the built environment properly policed to avoid or reduce to the barest minimum the issue of building collapse and its attendant effect on the developer and the national psyche,” he said. Speaking on the recent bui