
Year: 2017


ARB is about to undertake a review of how it investigates complaints made about architects, to see whether the current procedures in place are appropriate and efficient.

At the July Board meeting, the Board noted an update regarding the Periodic Review recommendations…



At the last Board meeting on 13 July 2017, the Board considered an application from an institution seeking prescription of its qualification under the Architects Act 1997 for the first time.

Welcome to the May eBulletin. This is my first message as Chair of the ARB although I have served as a Board Member since April 2013. I would like to take this opportunity to welcome three new Board Members – Caroline Corby, James Grierson and Alice Hynes, who have recently been appointed by the Privy […]

On 30 March 2017 the government published its final periodic review report regarding the regulation of architects and the Architects Registration Board.


Many complaints ARB receives about architects turn out not to be professional failings, but genuine misunderstandings by lay clients about what an architect should be expected to do.