Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Professional and Occupational Regulation
 
Board
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects
 
chapter
Board for Architects, Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors, Certified Interior Designers, and Landscape Architects Regulations [18 VAC 10 ‑ 20]
Action Develop regulations for a mandatory continuing education requirement for architect, professional engineer, and land surveyor licenses.
Stage Proposed
Comment Period Ended on 5/2/2008
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3/7/08  9:23 pm
Commenter: Dennis Neil Rankins

Opposition to Mandatory Education for lIcensure
 

While I appreciate the Board's desire to have high standards for the licensure of professionals, I am opposed to mandatory educational requirements for continued licensure.   It seems that government always thinks that the road to professional (and other) ability is somehow related to it, I assure you that there is ample (if not over burdensome) government regulation in this area.  I believe firmly that a fifth grader could practice architecture if only they could maneuver throught the vast local government maze of codes, regulations and requirements to build virtually anything.  We are strangled by this maze, which is at enormous cost to the private sector and seems to only grow day by day.  Can you even get a door knob  or a toilet though the building code without regulation.  I think not.   Being in private practice involves the constant updating of knowledge of not only government regulation, but extreme interaction with the vendor network that provides the goods and services of actually building something.   So no, I think that being compelled to submit to some dubious "continued education" mandated by the government is questionable at best and will yield NO ultimate benefit.  Fear not, there is NO WAY that anything that a professional architect does can seep through the existing government maze of regulation.   THIS IS A BAD IDEA AND VAST WASTE OF TIME.    WHAT IS YOUR GOAL WITH THIS ANYWAY?????

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