The Arb has launched a major consultation exercise to shape its approach to the new system of monitoring architects’ continuing professional development.

The move is a response to greater powers which the Building Safety Bill will hand to the Architects Registration Board to censure architects who cannot demonstrate the required competences introduced as a result of the Grenfell fire and other disasters.

Arb’s chair, Alan Kershaw, said the new CPD regime cannot be designed in an ivory tower.

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