PRBOA NEWS..october17,2009

Reformat of the LEA Archl Design Subject
The PRC has approved the PRBoA proposal to REFORMAT the Architectural Design and Site Planning Subject (the "Subject"), which comprise forty percent (40%) of the licensure examination for architects (LEA).

The Subject will now be a NON-DRAFTING examination and will also be of the multiple short situational problem, multiple choice format (with sketching and calculations required but not graded). The superseded mode was a single long situational problem format requiring a manually drafted solution.

The future examinees shall be allowed to bring copies ONLY OF Rules VII and VII of the 2004 Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) of P.D. No. 1096, otherwise known as the 1977 National Building Code of the Philippines/ NBCP to DAY 2 of the LEA.

These sections could be readily downloaded for free at the Latest Publications section of this website i.e. posted at the following dates:

a) 2008-06-07 Natl Bldg Code IRR Rule VII; and

b) 2008-06-07 Natl Bldg Code IRR Rule VIII.

Examinees may NOT bring NOR use copies of the Foz version of the National Building Code sold at the National Bookstore due to apparently material deficiencies in the text of the said publication.