The Ministry of Reconstruction hosted the first meeting of the architectural and construction (attestation) commission, the ministry’s press service said.
“The urban planning reform the Ministry of Reconstruction is working on requires quality personnel at all levels, including at the level of architects, design engineers, technical supervision engineers and experts. Quality expertise and professionalism will help to avoid many mistakes at the stage of implementation of urban planning rules and building regulations. We look forward to cooperation of the community of architects, because the quality of life of millions of Ukrainians depends on our work together”, – the press service of the Ministry quotes Deputy Minister of Community Development, Territories and Infrastructure Natalia Kozlovska, who headed the Commission.
According to the press release, attestation of architects will be held at three universities: the Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, the Kharkiv National University of Municipal Economy named after O.M. Beketov and the Lviv Polytechnic National University, – the corresponding memorandums on cooperation were signed at the commission session.
It is expected that about 200 people will apply for the qualification certificate of architect. Nowadays in Ukraine there are about 4 thousand certified architects, 85% of them specialize on architectural volumetric planning and the rest 15% – on working out of town-planning documentation. All architects are obliged to improve their qualification every 5 years. In November 2022 the Ministry of Regional Development approved curriculums for raising the qualification of architects, besides the three above mentioned universities, also for the Pridneprovsky State Academy of Construction and Architecture.
In addition, the commission approved the procedure for examinations, which provides that architects will be able to take them both in written form and in digital form, using the software of universities. As expected, the new order is aimed at removing the human factor influence on the final result and reducing corruption risks during certification to zero.
“Now the Ministry is working on the possibility of taking exams online in the Unified State Electronic System in the field of construction (USESB). The system will independently verify the correctness of the answers, generate a qualification certificate of the architect and enter the relevant data into the register of certified persons EGESB. By completely eliminating the human factor, we will be able to reduce to zero any corruption risks in the attestation of architects,” commented Kozlovskaya.
Thus, after a year the attestation of architects has been restored. Until then, it was carried out by the National Union of Architects of Ukraine (NUAU).
As reported, earlier order of the Ministry of Regional Development № 71 from May 12, 2022 extended the delegated authority for the period of military operations to three of the four self-regulatory organizations: Association of Construction Industry Experts, Guild of Designers in Construction, Guild of Engineers of Technical Supervision of Architecture Construction. At the same time, the NSAU, which had previously certified architects, was absent from the order. This collision created difficulties in the work of the ESPSB: architects, whose qualification confirmation deadline had expired, could not upload their projects into the unified system or make changes.
As explained to Interfax-Ukraine by the press service of the Ministry of Restoration, the NSAU is currently unable to certify architects.
