Africa-Press – Tanzania. AS the construction sector experiences rapid changes of technology, policies and laws, the Architects and Quantity Surveyors Registration Board (AQSRB) has prepared a two- day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) seminar in Mwanza to enable stakeholders strategise on how to cope with the changes.
Speaking to reporters in Dar es Salaam on Thursday, the Board’s Registrar, Arch Edwin Nnunduma said the seminar will bring together 150-250 professionals from construc-tion industry, graduates and students from higher learning institutions.
He said Mwanza Regional Commissioner Eng Robert Gabriel is expected to grace the two-day event which will focus on the “Emerging Issues in Taxation Law in the Construction Industry in Tanzania.”
“Technology is changing very rapidly…for someone who graduated in 2010 or before cannot cope with 2020’s technology if she or he has not attended the training,” the reg- istrar insisted.
He said it was the Board’s responsibility to train its stake- holders when there are changes of various policies and laws, including tax reforms, which have implications to the construction sector, the reason why AQSRB has prepared the seminar.
“We must know the legal implications to our industry in order to comply with them… the charges that architects have to pay after rendering services to their respective clients… stakeholders should be aware of them,” he said.
At the event which will take place on December 2nd and 3rd this year, the seminar will also focus on the cost of providing services as well as practical experiences on taxes and charges in the industry.
The Board targets to conduct inspection of 2,600 construction projects countrywide in this financial year, the regis- trar added.
Reacting to repporters’ questions, the registrar said the existing gap in the industry is that the majority of Tanzanians do not seek architects’ advice when they are executing their own projects adding: “some are incurring unnecessary cost as the consequences.”
Architects and Quantity Surveyors Registration Board was established by the Architects and Quantity Surveyors (Registration) Act No 16 of 1997, which was repealed and replaced by Act No 4 of 2010.
The Board is responsible to register and regulate conduct of Architects, Quantity Surveyors, Interior Designers, Landscape Architects, Conservation Architects, Naval Architects, Furniture Architects, Building Surveyors and Construction Managers.
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