Construction Managers and Interior Designers have pushed back at plans by the Government to bring them under the control of the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors (BORAQS).
In a hard-hitting joint statement, the professionals, through the Association of Construction Managers of Kenya (ACMK) and Interior Designers Association of Kenya (IDAK), castigated the State Department of Public Works for “attempts to repeal Cap 525 of the Laws of Kenya to purportedly expand the regulatory scope of BORAQS to include new disciplines in the built environment notably Construction Project Managers, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects and Technicians”.
The two bodies read mischief in the proposal, saying the move was “consistent with the perpetual intentions of certain professions’ incessant attempts to tyrannize emerging professions in the built environment to ensure they remain under their armpit”. This statement is seen as a thinly veiled affront on architects who have often been at loggerheads with project managers in the supervision of projects.
The two associations asked BORAQS to remain focused on the professions of architecture and quantity surveying which, in their words, have remained underdeveloped.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the professions of Construction Project Management and Interior Design have the incredible wherewithal, immeasurable capacity and laser impetus to pursue their own regulation”, the statement added, noting that the process of actualizing this had already started.
