Business News of Friday, 23 August 2013

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The acting Registrar of the Architects Registration Council of Ghana (ARC), Mrs. Stella Naa Dzagble Arthiabah, has announced that its Continuous Professional Development Programme will soon be made mandatory for all architects.

In addition, she said, the ARC will from this semester collaborate with the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) on lecturing relevant topics in the Professional Practice and Management course.

This, she explained, is to get all architects to be abreast with new and current information necessary to make informed decisions and offer the best service to clients.

She further noted that, globally, buildings of public interest and of an iconic nature are subject to Architectural Design Competitions, and recommended that We could start ... with the new airport the government is speculating of building at Dodowa.

Mrs. Arthiabah made the announcement on Thursday in Accra, during the 13th Induction Ceremony of the ARC.

In all, 23 Probationers were inducted out of 63 candidates who sat for the 2012 Professional Practice Examination (PPE) conducted by the ARC.

The induction ceremony is a major event on the ARCs calendar which bridges the academic and professional life of every architect.

It climaxes six years of academic qualification at the university, a minimum of two years coaching and apprenticeship under a qualified senior architect, and passing the PPE to gain state licencing.

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The Nigerian Institute of Architects, Bayelsa State chapter, has expressed fears over the future of buildings in the state.

The NIA said most of the buildings in the state could collapse in future because of rising population of quacks in most building sites.

Members of the NIA, led by its state chairman, Stella Raine, stated this during a courtesy visit to the Commissioner for Capital City Development, Zuwa Konugha, in Yenagoa, the state capital, on Thursday.

Raine decried the non-involvement of professional architects in most of the massive construction taking place in the state and expressed fears that the development could spell doom for most buildings and plans in the state.

She said the lifespan of most buildings in the state was uncertain, saying that most areas had been turned into squalors because architects were not involved in the planning and design of the buildings.

She said, The state may witness massive collapse of buildings in a few years time as a result of lack of patronage of architects but non-professionals that have taken over most sites.

Professional monitoring from the design stage is not there. Those not in the profession are handling the designs, a development that is dangerous for the future of buildings in the state. They do not conform to the basic professional standards in building designs and plans.

The NIA chairman said the structural failures might not be seen now, but that they would certainly occur in the future.

When such a situation occurred, people will begin to blame the professionals instead of the non-professionals that were contracted to construct the buildings, she said.

In his remarks, Konugha, who regretted the absence of architects in the ministry, said the importance of the profession in building and planning could not be overemphasised.

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Sure enough my name popped up on their website, and it was listed under the review section, Laner said.

What he found was a glowing, 5 star review, that he never wrote. Next to the review was a link to a Google+ account under his name that he never made.

I went to go click on that link, and essentially found a profile that was my name, based in Denver, with a picture of somebody thats not me, Laner said. I assumed they were impersonating my profile for me.

Laners review was one of many on the CJ Roofing website, so CBS4 Investigators looked into the other reviews and contacted the the people who wrote them. All were former customers, all said they had great experiences with CJ Roofing, but none of them had written a review online.

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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers tells us this is false advertising and could be a violation of the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.

This is something that if it comes into our office and somebody is drawing repeated complaints, would likely be the subject of some kind of action by us, Suthers told CBS4.

CBS4 Investigates took what it found to Bruce Lundy, the new president of CJ Roofing. Lundy investigated the situation and told us that an advertising agency and web consultant that they hired were falsifying information.

That was wrong, that should not have happened, it was done without consent or approval, its been immediately stopped, and further, Ive tried to contact each customer that was impacted this way, said Lundy.

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