Sthapati Admin on October 5, 2022 1 Comment
Melvin Tan, the President of the Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA), is launching a Value Articulation Framework (VAF) that sets out the costs of services, responsibilities and liabilities of an architect in the architecture profession.
Value Articulation Framework, or simply VAF, will address the raising issues that several architects face with currently in the profession, including low-wages, over-load working, a lack of work-life balance and a high level of stress under project deadlines.
In response to these concerns, SIA’s new program will set out the exact cost of an architect under a project commission from conceptual design stage, salaries to software, liabilities, authority.
“This has been a bugbear of the profession for long enough”
“This has been a bugbear of the profession for long enough, throughout the world,” SIA President Melvin Tan told World Architecture Community in an interview.
“SIA believes it is time for architects to fully understand the cost of our services, including manpower, fixed cost, subscriptions and cost of liabilities and responsibilities.”
Tan emphasizes that “the program will help to be able to fully calculate the cost of our service in relation to increasing codes and regulations which require increased time commitments on our part, in order to benefit our clients.”
According to Tan, “the program has a holistic framework that allows the architectural institutes to address and discuss with key agencies whoever new regulations are levied on the professionals.”
The initiative of the Singapore Institute of Architects, chaired by Melvin Tan, came after many younger generation architects in Singapore announced that it would not be possible to stay long in the profession for similar reasons.
“7 percent of young architecture graduates are planning to stay in the profession in the long run”
According to an article in Channel News Asia (CNA) published on July 3rd, it reports that only 7 percent of young architecture graduates said they were likely to stay in the profession in the long run, according to a survey conducted last year by the Singapore Institute of Architects.
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