Foreign architects, engineers get ultimatum to register

The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction plans to take drastic action, with possible deportation, against foreign architects and engineers who are not registered with the ministry through Cambodia’s professional body of architects, said a top ministry official yesterday. Phuoeng Sophean, secretary of state of the ministry and general director of the Board of Architects Cambodia, said the action was necessary because a large number of foreign architects and engineers were working in the country without being professionally registered.

“They are taking away jobs from professionally qualified Cambodians,” said Mr Sophean at the Cambuild’17 Expo and the Cambodia Architects Forum. “The Land Management Minister is interested in the development of the construction sector and recently he ordered all architects and engineers working in Cambodia to be registered with the Board of Architects, so that they in turn could be registered legally with the ministry,” he added.

“This is a requirement if they want to work professionally in the country – either working for the corporate sector or setting up their own business.” Mr Sophean said the ministry had measures in place to conduct spot checks on construction sites to ensure engineers and architects were properly registered to work in the country.

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