Malaysia
Planning
Changes in technology
Institutional challenge
Surveying
Experience
Training
Architectural
Achieving quality in the face of strong development pressures, without appropriate regulation.
Preserving a role for the small local practice architect in the face of global firms with overwhelming resources
Planning
Recognition
Credibility
Politicians’ short term views
External lobbies for development groups
Architectural
Increasing “Design & Build” projects/ Architects having little control
Quality of young qualified architects (a drop of quality of education is observed)
No proper scale of fees leading to unfair competition (Quality of Services/ Scope versus fees)
Lack of opportunities for younger generation
Engineering professional taking over part of the services offered to architects
Engineering
Competent engineers in new areas of engineering
Manpower resources needed
Exposure to new technologies
Energy efficiency expertise
Tapping renewable energy
Planning
Non planning professional taking up work that is meant for professional planners
Further professional development of planners in disaster risk reduction, climate change action and land degradation nexus
Mozambique
Engineering
Opportunities for internship
Low income
Lack of institution offering post-graduate courses
Namibia
Architectural
Municipal submissions is not limited to Professionals. Not controlled.
Too many qualified for the amount of work.
Set out fee is considered too high to pay for services, in which un-registered technicians receive the jobs then at a lower fee because they are not being regulated.
No advertisements are allowed and no competition without approval from council. But Council should initiate competitions. Which in return never happens.
Quality loss due to expensive imports not available to all.
New Zealand
Architectural
Risk and liability
Occupational regulation
Procurement and contracts
Trust and confidence (Clients and public)
Changing legislation/ regulation
Planning
Lack of clarity about who makes planning decisions
Government interventionist policies that bypass established planning processes
Lack of new planners coming into profession due to uncertainty over future of planning/ planners
Perception of planning being a boring ‘box ticking’ role that puts up bureaucratic hurdles to development.
Architectural
Inadequate support for built environment professionals from the Government to adequately perform their functions.
Difficult procurement process
High operational cost
Payment for services are post execution and takes longer than necessary to be effected.
Negative state of the national economy.
Planning
Lack of Political will to plan the environment
Poor funding for planning activities
Poor implementation of plans
Employment of none qualified planners to carry out planning activities.
Excessive none engagement of Planners
Surveying
Inadequate QS professionals
Funding
Lack of government support and patronage
Government bureacracy
Breach of professional ethics
Pakistan
Architectural
Lack of building control implementation
Rwanda
Architectural
Lack of effective capacity building frameworks
Discrepancy in service delivery between different professions in the built environment
Limited clients’ funds
Limited understanding of the professions and expected outputs
Poorly structured public private partnerships between the various stakeholders
Malta
Mauritius
Nigeria
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