NEW HOMELAND ELSEWHERE IS NOT THE ONLY SOLUTION FOR CLIMATE VICTIMS OF THE MALDIVES – Bluepeace Maldives

link to the original blog article. http://www.bluepeacemaldives.org/blog/climate-change/new-homeland-not-only-solution-climate-victims-maldives   The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently projected in its latest report, the rise of the sea level worldwide by two feet by 2100 as a result of melting ice sheets and the expanding of the sea by warming seawater. If the IPCC […]

“Usoolu” by Engineer and Architect Mohamed Ali

It is absolutely unfathomable that the Ministry has taken on to check drawings and that the Ministry does not see a conflict of interest in this. Behind the locked doors of the Ministry, where most all professionals from the very top to the very bottom are registered under the regulations and do practice, drawings of colleagues and self can easily be corrected, although everybody would wish this would not happen. The public would quickly perceive the Architects and Engineers at the Ministry to be super designers as their drawings never gets rejected and pass through with ease. Checking up on exact status and nudging a colleague would not be a problem. And these are the people tasked with regulating the registered and have now brought out an Usoolu whereby other registered professionals, on their watch is struck points and made to do CPDs and even get struck from the register if their drawings are deemed problematic.

Invitation : Architects’ Gathering @ MNU

Get a copy of the draft constitution and proposed organization chart for the Association.  

MACI Build EXPO 2012-13 @ Dharubaaruge

The Expo is open to the public from 29th-31st January.
All Architectural Practitioners are invited to join the association and fill in membership forms available at our stall. All visitors are welcome to contribute their ideas in the comment book at the stall

Minutes Of Meeting with Minister and PS at MHE, Sent to the Registrar at NBPAR

To the Registrar NBPAR, Please be informed that a meeting was held with the minister and the permanent secretary who acknowledged and agreed the concerns of a group of 8 architects whose general concerns were about the arbitrary nature of the regulators decision making procedures. Two key decisions acknowledged and agreed by the minister personally […]

Dr. Nabeel Hamdi, Public Lecture at the Maldives National University

Award winning academic and practitioner Dr Nabeel Hamdi will talk about his new book The Placemaker’s Guide to Building Community- a book packed with practical skills and tools that architects, planners, urban designers and other built environment specialists need in order to engage effectively with development work in any context.

Invitiation for “practitioners” to review the draft of Maldives National Building Act.