Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth, Survey Results

Table 139 Is Building Code legislation fit for purpose and implemented effectively? (Engineers) Region

Country

Building code legislation name

Building code legislation date

Ghana

Ghana Building Code 2018

2018

Y

N

Zambia

Zambia Bureau of Standards

2017

Y

Caribbean and Americas

Belize

Central building authorities

2003

N

Grenada

OECS Building Code

-

Y

N

Europe

UK

-

N

Africa

Building codes fit for purpose

Building codes implemented effectively?

Reason

Planning regulations are ignored, implementing agencies are scattered across different ministries resulting in many grey areas and turf wars

Table 140 Is Building Code legislation fit for purpose and implemented effectively? (Surveyors) Region

Country

Nigeria

Africa

Building code legislation name

Federal Ministry of Power Works and Housing

Building code legislation date

Building codes fit for purpose

2006

Trinidad & T.

Building codes implemented effectively?

Reason

N

The statutory body is not well funded, professionals are not well aware. Corruption of responsible officers

N

There is no legislation

Figure 43 Is Planning Policy and Building Code fit for purpose and implemented effectively?

Planning Legislation

Implemented effectively

42%

Fit for purpose

71%

Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth

Building Codes

Implemented effectively

27%

Fit for purpose

54%

Yes No

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Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth, Survey Results

Published on Jul 8, 2020

Commonwealth Association of Architects

Climate change and rapid urbanisation are among the most serious challenges facing the Commonwealth; challenges which have now been compounded by the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. UN Habitat estimates that 65% of the targets underlying the 17 Sustainable Development Goals are linked to territorial and urban development, and built environment professionals are central to the design of cities and human settlements that achieve the requirements of Goal 11 to be ‘inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable’. With nearly 50% of the projected increase in the worlds urban population to 2050 taking place in the Commonwealth, how well equipped are the built environment professions to meet this challenge? This is the question which the four Commonwealth associations representing architects, engineers, town planners and surveyors have set out to answer in the Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth; the first such joint survey ever to have been undertaken. ISBN: 978-1-5272-6714-5