Code of Professional Conduct

Code of Professional Conduct
& Architectural Competition

ARCHITECTS PROFESSION
ROLE OF AN ARCHITECT
ADVISOR
GENERAL
EDUCATOR MANAGER
ROLE OF AN
AUDITOR
ARCHITECT
SOCIAL
CONSCIOUSNESS
UMPIRE SUPERVISOR
ARCHITECTS CAREER AND POSSIBILITIES
1. ADVISOR 4. SUPERVISOR
•Architect must frequently visit work under construction
• Using the best of his knowledge and
irrespective of the distance.
experiences he should advice the client.
•He has to inspect site, either work has been carried out as
• His advice must only in the interest of his client. per conditions and specification of the contract.
•The owner or the client completely rely on the architect in
2. GENERAL MANAGER
this aspect.
• He is untrusted with financial undertakings. 5. UMPIRE
• He has to co ordinate with many agencies like •He has to work like an umpire in case of dispute between
a general manager. the owner and the contractor.
•He must act with entire impartiality.
• His honesty of purpose must be above 6. SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS
suspicion. •He has the moral responsibility towards the society.
3. AUDITOR •His behaviour in the society reflects upon the architectural
fraternity as a whole.
• He has to certify bills, payments and fees to
the contraction and other consultant.
7. EDUCATOR
• He has to work as an auditor. •He shall educate directly or indirectly, his clients and the
society to improve quality of living and environment.
• He must be selfless and impartial.
These are the moral and legal expectations of an architect
ARCHITECTS CAREER AND POSSIBILITIES
AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CAREER, ARCHITECT HAS THE FOLLOWING

OPTIONS –
• To buy a practice or may inherit the practice.

• To work in a firm and climb the ladder of promotion to the stage of becoming
a principal or the partner of firm.
• Leave the firm and start his own practice.
• To win a competition and start his own practice.
• Individual joining together and starting a practice as partners.
ADVANTAGES OF WORKING IN A WELL ESTABLISHED FIRM -
• Pleasant atmosphere, location, situation etc.

• High salary.
• High standard for design and its preparation.
• Sufficient time available for research.
• Able to handle big projects within a short time.
SHORT COMINGS OF THE OWN PRACTICE-
• As he is the principal architect he has to do all technical and research work himself and he will thus
lack in good technical information.
• Less productivity.
• Long period of experience required to handle big reports.
• Cannot satisfy the client so far as the speed is concerned.
• No vacation for the principal, when his is ill, the work will suffer.
DUTIES AND RESPOSIBILITIES
By developing his one man practice architect gradually assumes the principal and
stage might come when he simply become an artist administrator.
He is the chief man in the office with legal and financial responsibilities.
• To keep a steady flow of work so as to maintain the high standard of his office.
• To take active part in the social activities.
• To submit work for publication in technical journals.
• To co ordinate with various consultants to obtain the desired results without any hitch
and delay
• Proper distribution of work among office staff member.
• Financing of the office.
• Attend to contract, cost planning and time limit for the completion of the work.
ARCHITECT OFFICE AND ITS MANAGEMENT
1. Office location should be in a prominent and

BY conv enient place for easy accessibility
SPECIALIZATION 2. Architects office need to be designed in a functional
manner
THROUGH CHARTERED 3. All inmates should get proper v entilation and lighting .
ACCOUNTANTS AND
4. Care should be taken that no ov er crowding takes
FROM FRIENDS OTHER place.
& RELATIVES PROFESSIONALS 5. Architect should itself be methodical, then only he can
expect discipline from his office staff.
WORK FOR 6. His cabin should bear ev idence of his professional

status.
AN
ARCHITECT BY THE 7. He should arrange appointments with his clients in a
proper way to av oid long waiting time.
BY WINNING PREVIOUS
WORK 8. He should be ready for the clients meeting as per the
ARCHITECTURAL appointment with all necessary requirements.
COMPETITION 9. Catalogue and samples should be properly arranged.
BY LUCK 10. Sufficient time and care should be allotted for all the
office staff members
11. Office should posses a good library.
CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT – 1989
UNDER THE ARCHITECTS ACT 1972
 Ensure that his professional activities do not conflict with his general responsibility to contribute to the
quality of the environment and future welfare of society
 Apply his skill to the creative, responsible and economic development of his country,
 Provide professional services of a high standard, to the best of his ability,
 If in private practice, inform his client of the conditions of engagement and scale of charges and
agree that these conditions shall be the basis of the appointment,
 Not sub-commission to another architect or architects the work for which he has been commissioned
without prior agreement of his client,
 Not give or take discounts, commissions, gifts or other inducements for the introduction of clients or of
work,
 Act with fairness and impartiality when administering a building contract,
 Maintain a high standard of integrity,
 Promote the advancement of architecture, standards of architectural education, research, training
and practice,
 Conduct himself in a manner which is not derogatory to his professional character, nor likely to lessen
the confidence of the public in the profession, nor bring architects into disrepute
 Compete fairly with other architects

 Observe and uphold the council's conditions of engagement and scale of charges,
 Not supplant or attempt to supplant another architect,
 Not prepare designs in competition with other architects for a client without payment or for a
reduced fee (except in a competition conducted in accordance with the architectural competition
guidelines approved by the council),
 Not attempt to obtain, offer to undertake or accept a commission for which he knows another
architect has been selected or employed until he has evidence that the selection,
 When working in other countries, observe the requirements of codes of conduct applicable to the
place where he is working ,
 Not have or take as partner in his firm any person who is disqualified for registration by reason of the
fact that his name has been removed form the register under section 29 or 30 of the architects act,
1972 ,
 Provide their employees with suitable working environment, compensate them fairly and facilitate
their professional development,
 Recognize and respect the professional contribution of his employees,
 Enter into agreement with them defining their scope of work, responsibilities, functions, fees and
mode of payment
 Shall not advertise his professional services nor shall he allow his name to be included in
advertisement or to be used for publicity purposes save the following exceptions :-
 A notice of change of address may be published on three occasions and correspondents may be
informed by post,
 An architect may exhibit his name outside his office and on a building, either under construction or
completed, for which he is or was an architect, provided the lettering does not exceed 10 cm. In
height ,
 Advertisements including the name and address of an architect may be published in connection
with calling of tenders, staff requirements and similar matters,
 May allow his name to be associated with illustrations and descriptions of his work in the press or other
public media but he shall not give or accept any consideration for such appearances,
 May allow his name to appear in advertisements inserted in the press by suppliers or manufacturers
of materials used in a building he has designed, provided his name is included in an unostentatious
manner and he does not accept any consideration for its use,
 May allow his name to appear in brochure prepared by clients for the purpose of advertising or
promoting projects for which he has been commissioned,
 May produce or publish brochures, pamphlets describing his experience and capabilities for
distribution to those potential clients whom he can identify by name and position.
ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
INTRODUCTION
 The purpose of these Guidelines is to indicate the principles upon which competitions
will be conducted and the rules which must be observed by a promoter for
conducting competitions.
 These guidelines have been drawn up in the interest of both the promoter and the
competitor and to ensure that the architectural competitions are properly
conducted and that selection of the design will be on merit alone and will satisfy the
promoter's requirements.
 The Code of Professional Conduct of the Council of Architecture does not allow
Architects to give unpaid services in competition with each other and competitive
designs shall only be submitted through competition organized within the framework
of these guidelines.
GUIDELINES :
 ARTICLE 1 : ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE:

 Participation in any and all competitions shall be open to:
 Architects i.e. those who are registered with the Council of Architecture under the Architects Act,
1972 on the date of announcement of the competition and thereafter.
 Firms in which all the partners shall be registered with the Council of Architecture under the Architects
Act, 1972 on the date of announcement of the competition and there after.
 Students of a Teaching Institution, the qualifying examination of which is recognized by the Council of
Architecture provided that no member of the staff of the said institution is the sole Assessor or in a jury
of three or more Assessors, only one Assessor is from the staff of the said institution.
 Neither the Promoter of the competition, Assessor/s engaged for the competition nor any of their
associate, partner or employee shall compete, assist a competitor or act as an architect or joint
architect for the competition project.
 Competitor may be requested to submit a proof of qualification, copy of his valid Registration
certificate issued by the Council of Architecture, and in case of a student, a certificate from the head
of his institution which is qualified as per 3 above.
ARTICLE 2 :Competition
 The word 'Competition' shall apply to any competition described in Schedule 1 and participation
shall be open only to those qualified as per Article 1.
 The draft competition conditions including time table, registration fees, prize monies/honoraria,
board of assessors, the program etc. of competitions shall have been finalized within the framework
of the guidelines prescribed by the Council of Architecture before any announcement is made by
the promoter of the competition.
 The conditions of the competitions shall clearly give:
Conditions based upon guidelines prescribed by the Council of Architecture.
Type of Competition.
Purpose of the competition and intentions of the promoter.
Nature of the problem to be solved.
All practical and mandatory requirements to be met by the competitors.
Number, nature, scale and dimensions of the documents, plan and/or models.
Estimates if required in standard form issued with the conditions.
Nature of prizes.
Names of Assessors.
Necessary information required for conducting the competition.
 The competition shall be conducted in English.
 All competition designs shall be submitted anonymously.
 ARTICLE 3 :BOARD OF ASSESSORS:
 The Board of Assessors shall at all times include Architects who are registered with the
Council of Architecture and shall be in a majority of at least one.
 ARTICLE 4 : Prizes, Honoraria & Mentions :
 No competition shall be conducted without adequate premium/honoraria and the
competition conditions and the media announcements must state the amounts and
number of prizes for the open competition and the amount of premium or
honorarium to each competitor in a limited competition and in the second stage of
a two stage competition.
 ARTICLE 5 : Copyright & Right of ownership :
 Each competitor shall retain Copyright in his own competition design.
 Each competitor shall retain the right of reproduction of his own competition design.
 ARTICLE 6 :
All competition designs including those disqualified by the Board of Assessors shall be
exhibited for at least one week, together with a copy of the signed report of the
Board of Assessors. The exhibition shall be open to public free of charge.

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& Architectural Competition

AT THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE CAREER, ARCHITECT HAS THE FOLLOWING

• To buy a practice or may inherit the practice.

ADVANTAGES OF WORKING IN A WELL ESTABLISHED FIRM -

• Pleasant atmosphere, location, situation etc.

• Long period of experience required to handle big reports.

• Cannot satisfy the client so far as the speed is concerned.

• To take active part in the social activities.

• To submit work for publication in technical journals.

• Proper distribution of work among office staff member.

• Financing of the office.

1. Office location should be in a prominent and

WORK FOR 6. His cabin should bear ev idence of his professional

 Compete fairly with other architects

 ARTICLE 1 : ELIGIBILITY TO COMPETE:

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