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

3 3

SURVEY RESULTS

The 2019 Survey of the Built Environment Professions in the Commonwealth has been undertaken jointly by the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA), the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP), the Commonwealth Association of Surveyors and Land Economists (CASLE) and the Commonwealth Engineers Council (CEC). The survey was conducted online and was issued to all known national architectural, town planning, civil engineering and quantity surveying associations in the 53 countries of the Commonwealth whether or not they are currently members of their respective Commonwealth body (ie CAA, CAP, CEC and CASLE). The survey itself comprised 7 principal subject areas and a total of 75 separate questions. The main subject areas were: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.

The Chamber/Institute/Association The Profession Professional Practice Education and Training The Market Government Context Challenges and Opportunities

A total of 61 questionnaires were returned across the 4 disciplines from a total of 33 Commonwealth countries including 26 from Africa, 10 from Asia, 11 from the Caribbean and the Americas, 7 from Europe and 6 from the Pacific, representing a broad cross section of countries across all 5 regions of the Commonwealth. The quality of responses received was somewhat inconsistent and it would appear than several respondents were simply not able to answer some of the questions due to lack of data, others perhaps due to lack of resource. With regard to the responses received from the Engineering and Surveying professions, in some countries, the associations include members from related disciplines (eg some engineering associations include members from a range of structural, civil, electrical and mechanical backgrounds, while some surveying institutes include members from a range of cost, building and land surveying backgrounds). The survey results do not account for these differences and the membership numbers quoted for these disciplines may not therefore always provide a like-for-like comparison. Irrespective of this, and despite the relatively low response rates, it is evident that these disciplines face similar capacity issues.

50

BACK TO TABLE OF CONTENTS

Planning for climate change and rapid urbanisation

Turn static files into dynamic content formats.

Create a flipbook

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