SMX Convention Center • Seashell Drive, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay City, Philippines • 23-26 April 2009
Professional Regulation Commission
PROFESSIONAL REGULATORY BOARD OF ARCHITECTURE
Warm greetings to you all!
I and the two (2) Members of the PRBoA, namely
Architects Angeline T. Chua Chiaco, fuap and
Marietta B. Segovia, uap, congratulate the United
Architects of the Philippines (UAP), the integrated and
accredited professional organization of architects
(IAPoA), and the UAP-IAPoA officer corps, particularly
the National President, Architects Medeliano T. Roldan,
Jr., fuap, apec ar, the Commission on Conventions
& Conferences, led by Roger T. Ong, uap, and the
Convention Director Richard M. Garcia, uap, on
the occasion of the 35th UAP National Convention,
with the theme “The Power of Architecture – Dream,
Create, and Transform," to be held on 23-25 April 2009,
at the SMX Convention Center in Pasay City.
It is the PPBOA’s express wish that many more areas
of cooperation between the PRBoA and the UAPIAPOA shall be opened in the remaining months of
the UAP fiscal year, and that these
are kept evolving and moving
forward in order to help attain
our shared primary goal
of the full implementation
and enforcement of
Republic Act No. 9266
(The Architecture Act
of 2004), a valid and
subsisting special law, its
implementing rules and
regulations (IRR), which
both specifically limit
the signing and
sealing of
architectural documents only to registered and
licensed architects (RLAs), as well as their derivative
regulations such as the issued 2007 & 2008 PRBoA
resolutions governing architectural firm registration,
the issuance of temporary/ special permits (TSPs) to
foreign architects (FAs) practicing in the country and
the accreditation of continuing professional education
(CPE) providers and programs for RLAs.
It is also the wish of the PRBoA that it is able to
receive the full and continu ing UAP-IAPOA support
on the current and future PRBoA initiatives toward this
end, particularly the matter of identifying, monitoring
and holding accountable the many different violators
of R.A. No. 9266, which may also include other stateregulated professionals such as certain civil engineers
(CEs), unregistered persons (posing as RLAs), national
and local government officials and offices (who
actively encourage if not abet R.A. No. 9266 violations),
some developers/ contractors/ local clients/ foreign
entities and even certain RLAs or registered architects
(RAs), who all continue to defy the law and to hurt the
architectural profession and its upright practitioners.
We nonetheless rejoice and are most thankful for the
many victories we have had in the past year/s and
look forward to more successes, particularly in the
legal arena.
Again, the PRBoA extends its heartfelt
congratulations and wishes of continuing success to
the UAP-IAPOA, its incumbent officers, and to all of you
in attendance!
May the Lord bless us all and the resurgent
architecture profession as well. Mabuhay ang
Arkitektong Pilipino!!! Mabuhay kayong lahat!
ARMANDO DOMINADOR N. ALLÍ, fuap
Chairman
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