The Architects and Quantity Surveyors By-laws, 2024

A person or firm that violates these By-laws commits an offence and, if no other penalty is provided, may be fined up to five million shillings.

The Board must keep a register of professional misconduct defaults and may take action, including suspension or deletion from the register, if defaults recur.

Prescribed penalties and payments must be paid within 21 days of the invoice date.

The Architects and Quantity Surveyors By-laws, 2015 are revoked.

Form field for the firm’s full name.

This section provides blank fields for telephone, mobile, fax, email, and current postal address.

This provision lists address fields for a registered office: house number, block number, street name, town or city, and physical address.

This section is a form asking for company registration and ownership details, including certificates, business licence information, bank details, firm category, and share ownership evidence.

This text appears to be a heading or continuation note about filling in a capacity building form.

Applicants must complete all sections of the form, pay the required registration fees, and a guarantor must cover unpaid statutory fees if the applicant defaults. While in Tanzania, the applicant may only work on the specific project linked to the application.

Foreign individual professional applicants must complete all seventeen form sections and pay the prescribed registration fee when applying.

An applicant must pay the prescribed registration fees when applying, and if already registered with the named professional bodies, provide a registration number.

The form asks the applicant to provide next-of-kin and professional experience details, and the declaration limits the applicant’s work to the specific project, forbids other work in Tanzania, and requires payment of statutory fees.

This item asks whether the respondent is registered with the Architects Association of Tanzania or the Tanzania Institute of Quantity Surveyors.

An applicant must pay the prescribed registration fee when applying.

An applicant must pay the prescribed registration fee when applying, and the application form must be fully completed before the Board processes it.

Applicants must pay the prescribed registration fee when applying, and referees must be architects registered with the Board in Tanzania.

The applicant must apply to be entered in the sub register as an Architectural Draughtsman and must confirm the information is true and correct.

The form is for an adult applicant, Christian or Muslim, with a P.O. Box, seeking registration as a foreign person for a specific assignment or investment in mainland Tanzania.

The speaker states that they solemnly take an oath or affirmation and will make a statement.

The text says a foreign applicant is qualified after being registered, but the register and timing are left blank in the source.

A person states that they have contracted a specific project or investment, with blanks for its name, location, and duration.

This provision appears to say an undertaking is made in relation to involving local persons or local capacity building in the project.

This section asks for the duration of the assignment, project, or investment to be stated in months or years, starting from a specified date or event.

Registration is tied to the duration of the assignment or project.

After the project is completed, the applicant must wind up the business and not carry on any other business, unless registered for another work in Tanzania.

The speaker declares that the facts stated above are true to the best of their knowledge.

A deponent must swear or affirm that the stated paragraphs are true to the best of their knowledge and belief.

This section is a form template asking for project, client, permit, construction date, and site location details.

This section is a form field for recording an interviewee’s details, including name, relation or duty at the works, signature, date, and mobile number.

Section heading for project architectural firm pre-contract and post-contract material.

This section asks for the name of the architect in charge of supervision, along with postal address, telephone, and email details.

This section appears to be a form field listing for a project quantity surveying firm and the quantity surveyor in charge.

9. Telephone :…………………...………… Email: …………................…………… Project Structural Engineering Firm: Name ……………………….…………………….………........ Postal Address: …………………………………………………………….............… Engineering Structural of Firm

This text is a form fragment asking for contact details such as telephone, email, name of the electrical engineering firm, and postal address.

This section is a form asking for the name, postal address, telephone number, and email address of a mechanical engineering firm.

This section provides fields for the main contractor’s name and contact details.

This section asks for the physical address and whether a sign board is present.

The signboard for the site must show specified project and professional details.

This section is an inspection form for site activities, asking whether specified records and documents are available and recording inspection details.

14. Notable Project Shortcomings ………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………...………………………………… ………………………………………………………………………………………… ………………………………………………………………….................………… ……………………………………………………………………………………….… ……….

This section is a recommendations heading for the Head of Inspection Team.

This is a show cause notice issued under paragraph 102(2) about alleged failure to follow the Architects and Quantity Surveyors (Registration) Act provisions.

The Board may require a person to explain a suspected contravention and may take legal action or issue a stop order if the explanation is not provided.

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This section lists offences and penalties for certain architects, quantity surveyors, firms, institutions, and clients involved in construction-related work.

This section lists referenced provisions: 95(3), 96(3), 100, 102, and 106(2)(2)(2).

This provision appears to list cross-references to sections 109, 110, 112, 113, and 116.

This section lists professional misconducts and related monetary amounts for architects/quantity surveyors and related persons or firms.

This provision lists registration, certificate, licence, stamp, and examination fees for architects, quantity surveyors, their firms, and related graduate categories, including different amounts for local and foreign applicants.

This section says the Code may be cited as the Architects and Quantity Surveyors (Conduct and Ethics) Code.

This code of conduct and ethics applies to the listed architecture and surveying professionals.

Registered persons must follow high professional and ethical standards, comply with laws, avoid conflicted or unqualified conduct, report serious client-law violations, and supervise or sign work only when conditions are met.

Every registered person must respect and help conserve community values, natural and cultural heritage, and work to improve the environment sustainably.

Architects and quantity surveyors must protect the public and environment, avoid misleading promotion or representation, follow the law and ethics codes, participate in civic life, and take reasonable steps to prevent waste and environmental damage.

Every registered person must follow these professional conduct rules when providing services.

A registered person must act honestly, protect the profession’s integrity, avoid unsuitable partnerships, and not support unqualified or dishonest conduct.

A registered person must follow professional conduct rules, including non-discrimination, respecting colleagues, protecting others’ work, managing fees fairly, notifying other professionals in some cases, and handling employer materials properly when leaving service.

A registered person must run practice professionally, keep client records secure, use a written client agreement with specified terms, disclose subcontracting, and return client papers or property on request at the end of a contract.

This section is about obligations relating to client money, trustworthiness, and statutory authorities, but the excerpt does not state the actual rule.

A registered person must keep client money records, hold client money in a separate client account, give written bank instructions, limit withdrawals to authorised client payments, and pass on interest or other benefits to the client unless agreed otherwise.

A registered person must cooperate with the Board, provide requested information on time, notify changes to register details in writing, and follow the stated building design and supervision requirements.

A registered person must treat people fairly, avoid discrimination and false claims, and try to ensure supervised persons follow the Code.

A registered person must act professionally, report serious concerns to the Board, notify the Registrar within 7 days of listed events, avoid gagging contracts, and help Board investigations.

Registered persons must consider the environmental impact of their professional activities.

Section heading about fees as a percentage of the cost of works for existing works.

This text is a fragment of a table under the Architects and Quantity Surveyors By-Laws showing maximum figures and number ranges.

This table lists fee percentages for interior design, furniture design, and landscape architecture services, based on the cost of the project or works.

This table lists fees charged as a percentage of project cost for quantity surveying, building economics, and building survey services.

This provision lists monetary ranges related to architects and quantity surveyors.

This table lists percentage fees for construction management and project management services based on the value of the works in TZS.

A maximum fee of 0.5% appears to apply to existing works.

This provision sets fee stages and time-based rates for architectural and quantity surveying services.

The architect must discuss the client’s requirements, including timing and financial limits, assess them, give general advice, and agree the services.

The architect must get key site and property information from the client.

The architect must visit the site and carry out an initial appraisal.

The architect must advise on whether other consultants are needed and on the scope of their services.

The architect must advise about the need for contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers to design and carry out part of the works in line with the architect’s requirements.

The architect must advise on whether site staff are needed.

The architect must prepare an outline timetable and fee basis when required, and must complete feasibility, review, advisory, analysis, proposal, and cost-estimate tasks at the stated work stages.

The architect must develop the scheme design, include cost estimates, and, where applicable, indicate possible start and completion dates.

The architect must advise the client about how later changes may affect project cost and the overall programme, and must do so in consultation with the appointed quantity surveyor.

If required, the architect must apply for planning consent.

With appointed consultants, the architect must develop a scheme design and carry out related coordination and information-gathering tasks, including getting the client’s approval of construction type, materials, and workmanship standards.

An architect must, where required, make and negotiate approval applications and prepare construction information for later tender work.

The architect must arrange for other contracts to be let before the contractor starts work.

The architect must advise on and get the client’s approval for a list of tenderers.

The architect must invite and assess tenders, advise the client, help prepare and sign the building contract when required, and provide production information as required by the contract.

The architect must administer the terms of the building contract while operations are taking place on site.

The architect must visit the site as appropriate and inspect the progress and quality of the work.

The architect must prepare periodic financial reports for the client, with the appointed quantity surveyor, covering the effect of variations on construction cost.

Provide site staff so the works can be inspected frequently or constantly.

The architect must administer the building contract terms relating to completion of the works.

The architect must give general guidance on maintenance.

The architect must give the client drawings of the building and main drainage lines, and arrange for drawings of the services installations to be provided.

Architects and quantity surveyors must compile maintenance and operational manuals and include information prepared by related consultants, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers.

Provide specially prepared drawings of a building as built.

The quantity surveyor must visit the site and carry out an initial appraisal.

The quantity surveyor must assist the architect on the need for contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers to design and carry out part of the works so they comply with the architect’s requirements.

The quantity surveyor must prepare and provide preliminary cost advice to the architect.

The quantity surveyor must do studies needed to assess the client’s requirements and cost implications, and must prepare preliminary cost estimates based on the outline design proposal.

The quantity surveyor must prepare cost based on the scheme design and report and advise on the scheme’s cost implications.

The quantity surveyor must provide cost, tender, reporting, valuation, and final-account services across the project stages described here.

Advise on selecting suitable sites and negotiate about sites and buildings.

Make measured surveys, take levels, and prepare plans of sites and buildings.

Make inspections, prepare reports, or give general advice on the condition of premises.

This provision covers preparing schedules of dilapidation and negotiating them for landlords or tenants.

Investigate building failures and arrange and supervise exploratory work by contractors or specialists.

This section is about taking particulars on site and preparing specifications and/or repair schedules.

It refers to restoration work, inspection of its execution, and advising on problems in existing buildings.

Advise on the efficient use of energy in new and existing buildings.

Prepare a risk management plan covering risk planning, identification, assessment, analysis, and handling.

Technical and financial proposals must be evaluated for selecting and employing consultants.

This section is about preparing a request for proposal to solicit consulting services for development services.

Prepare special drawings, models, or technical information for the client or for specified planning, building, land, or negotiation purposes.

This provision concerns preparing plans or layouts for a large building or a complex of buildings.

Prepare layouts for housing, industrial, or other estates showing where buildings and other works such as roads and sewers will be sited.

Prepare drawings and specifications for the materials and workmanship for constructing housing, industrial or other estates, roads, and sewers.

Services may be provided in connection with demolition works.

This section is titled “Provide services in connection with environmental studies” and mentions design services.

Advise on commissioning or selecting works of art, and supervise their installation.

Advise on commissioning or selecting specialist acoustical investigations.

Carry out special construction research for a scheme design, including prototype buildings or models.

This section lists activities involving building systems and building components, including development, examination, advice, and monitoring testing.

This section says to conduct exceptional negotiations with the planning authority.

This provision covers preparing and submitting an appeal to the relevant building authorities and advising on other work connected with planning appeals.

It allows exceptional negotiations for approvals under building acts or regulations, including requests for a waiver or relaxation.

The section refers to making submissions to the Antiquities Division and similar statutory bodies.

Plans of proposed building works must be submitted for approval of landlords, mortgagors, freeholders, or others.

This provision says to advise owners or lessees about their rights and responsibilities, including rights of light, support, and way, provide information, and handle negotiations.

This section is titled “Provide services in connection with party wall negotiations.”

This section lists legal and dispute-related tasks, including preparing and giving evidence, settling proofs, consulting legal counsels, attending court or arbitration, appearing before tribunals, and acting as an arbitrator.

Provide services to the client while carrying out duties under a design and build contract.

The section requires providing services for separate trades contracts, agreeing a programme of work, and acting as co-ordinator for the contract period.

The architect must provide services connected to labour directly employed by the client and help coordinate and supervise the work.

A quantity surveyor must exercise reasonable skill and competence and use technical knowledge according to the normal standards of the profession.

A quantity surveyor must act for the client within the appointment and get the client’s authority before starting any service or work stage.

The quantity surveyor must not make material changes to the approved design without the knowledge and consent of the architect, other designing professionals, and the client.

The quantity surveyor must tell the architect or project manager if authorised expenditure or the building contract period is likely to change materially, and must visit the site at suitable intervals to inspect progress and value the works.

The client must give the quantity surveyor the information and decisions needed to properly perform the agreed service.

If the quantity surveyor requests it, the client must nominate a responsible representative.

The quantity surveyor keeps the property in the prepared documents, information, and related works unless the parties agree otherwise.

The client may reproduce the quantity surveyor’s documents when carrying out the project, unless the parties agree otherwise.

The entitlement also covers maintenance, repair, and renewal of the works.

The client must not proceed with the project using the documents without the quantity surveyor’s consent, and neither the client nor the quantity surveyor may assign duties without the other party’s written consent.

The quantity surveyor must immediately notify the client in writing if force majeure makes the agreed services impracticable, and work with the client on a suitable response.

The client may suspend all or part of the agreed services, but the condition for doing so is cut off in the source text.

A quantity surveyor may give breach notice, suspend services, or terminate the agreement in specified client default or insolvency situations.

The quantity surveyor’s appointment may end by either party or by expiry.

If the quantity surveyor dies or becomes incapacitated, the appointment ends. The client may then use the surveyor’s reports and documents after paying or tendering all outstanding fees and expenses, but only for the purpose they were prepared for.

A dispute about a quantity surveyor’s terms of service may, if the parties agree and the stated conditions are met, be referred to the Board for an opinion.

If a dispute about the appointment cannot be resolved by the parties, it may be referred to arbitration.

The parties may agree to settle a dispute arising from the appointment without using arbitration.

The architect must act for the client within the architect’s appointment and must get the client’s authority before starting any service or work stage.

The architect must not change the approved design in any material way without the client’s knowledge and consent.

The Architect must inform the client if the total authorised expenditure or the building contract period is likely to change materially.

The client or the architect may nominate consultants, but only if each party accepts.

If the client hires consultants, the client must hold each consultant responsible for that consultant’s competence, general inspection, and performance of the work.

The architect has authority to coordinate and integrate consultants’ services into the overall design.

A specialist contractor or supplier for design work may be nominated by the architect or the client, if each accepts; the client is responsible, not the architect, for the contractor’s work once entrusted.

The architect has authority to coordinate and integrate contractors’ or subcontractors’ designs into the overall design.

The client must employ the contractor under a separate agreement.

The client must treat the contractor, not the architect, as responsible for how the contractor carries out the work and for proper execution of the works.

The architect must visit the site at appropriate intervals during construction to inspect the works and check whether they generally match the contract documents.

If frequent or constant inspections are needed, a clerk of works must be employed by either the client or the Architect, and that person must be under the Architect’s direction and control.

If frequent or constant inspection is agreed to be necessary, the architect may appoint a resident architect.

The client must give the Architect the information and decisions needed for proper performance of the agreed service.

If the architect requests it, the client must nominate a responsible representative for all instructions.

Copyright in the architect’s prepared documents, drawings, and works made from them stays with the architect unless the parties agree otherwise.

The client is entitled to reproduce the architect’s design by carrying out the project, unless the parties agree otherwise.

The entitlement also applies to maintenance, repair, and renewal of the works.

The client may not reproduce the design by carrying out the project without the architect’s consent.

The architect must not unreasonably withhold consent under clause 6.4, but may withhold it if his services are limited to making and negotiating planning applications, unless an arbitrator decides otherwise.

The architect or the client must not assign all or part of their duties unless the other party gives written consent.

The architect must immediately notify the client in writing if force majeure makes the agreed services impracticable, and then work out a suitable course of action with the client.

The client may suspend some or all of the agreed services, subject to a giving requirement that is cut off in the source text.

If suspended architectural services are not resumed within six months, the architect must give the client 30 days’ notice asking to resume service, and may then treat the appointment as terminated if the client does not respond.

The architect’s appointment may be terminated by either party or after expiry of the stated period.

If the client breaches the agreement, the Architect may give written notice requiring the breach to be fixed within 30 days, and may later suspend services or end the agreement if the breach is not remedied or if certain insolvency events occur.

If an architect dies or becomes incapacitated, the appointment ends. After paying or tendering any outstanding fees and expenses, the client may use the architect’s prepared reports, drawings, and other documents only for the purpose they were prepared for.

The architect or client must not assign all or part of their duties without the other party’s written consent.

If the parties agree, a services dispute may be referred to the Board for an opinion, and the parties must accept that opinion.

If a dispute about the appointment cannot be resolved by the parties, they may refer it to arbitration.

The parties may agree to settle a dispute arising from the appointment without using arbitration.