ARCON Rejigs Professional Programme Ahead of 2022 Colloquium

The Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has said it is rejigging its professional programme to meet current realities in the field of architecture and direct all architects practicing in Nigeria to attend the 2022 colloquium.

According to a statement issued, the council gave the directive recently in Abuja after its planning meeting, adding that the annual event now attracts 40 percent grade points of the Continuous Professional Development Courses.

The ARCON President, Sir Dipo Ajayi, according to the statement noted that every year, the council worked towards improving the content of the programme.

Ajayi disclosed that the planning committee had expanded the scope of the event to cater for all categories of people within the profession.

The ARCON Registrar, Umar Murnai, stated that the event with a theme “Architecture and National Development Agenda XIV”, scheduled to hold between May 23 and May 26 in Abuja, was unique in its focus on two prevailing subject matters in the Nigerian construction space in which architects were key players.

Murnai hinted that the annual architects’ colloquium, which formed a major part of the profession’s Continuous Professional Development (CPD), was one of the ways the council had been enhancing architecture in the country.

He charged those who had not been committed to the programme to be in attendance at this year’s edition, noting that defaulters might have difficulties in renewing their practicing licenses.

The ARCON Registrar revealed that the event was in part, ARCON’s obligation to advancing architectural practice, education and research for the public good and wellbeing, which would lead to the development of basic construction trade skills.

The Chairman, Planning Committee, Musa Sada, announced that participants would be exposed to technology in the AEC and job creation within the industry and the built environment.

Sada, a former Minister of Mines and Steel, stressed that this year’s programme promised to make far-reaching impacts on architecture in the country.

He explained that the 2022 colloquium caters for all categories of architects both in the public and private practice and students in Nigerian schools of architecture.

According to the chairman of the planning committee, the targeted audience included all schools of architecture; departments of architectural services in the federal and state ministries of power, works, housing and urban development; all ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs); all state housing corporations, and plan approval offices of states and local governments.