UIA Press Release: Institute of Architects Pakistan Flood Relief Fund

Author: UIA General Secretariat The Institute of Architects of Pakistan Disaster Relief Fund requests contributions. Donations can be directly transferred into the IAP Flood Relief Account: ============= Fund Account No. 1005-0081-024396-02-7 Bank Al Habib Zamzama Branch, DHA, Karachi 75500 Pakistan SWIFT CODE: BAHLPKKA ============== Contributors may also ‘adopt’ a village or contribute a house – [...]

Trinidad and Tobago’s Construction’s fragile state causes worry

Published: 24 Aug 2010 Author: The President, Arch. Mark Raymond Trinidad & Tobago Institute of Architects ———— Architects are deeply concerned about the current fragile state of the construction sector. At the commencement of the recent boom, the last administration initiated projects and engaged the construction sector only to peremptorily drop it in favour of [...]

Construction Industry Commission of Inquiry report handed over to the President

The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Construction Sector, Professor John Uff today handed in his report on the construction sector and Udecott to the President of Trinidad and Tobago. Meanwhile, police probes of the state enterprise and its former executive chairman John Calder Hart continue. Uff ‘s report was handed over to [...]

Water Conservation: An Urgent Message for Caribbean Island States and others

With many Caribbean island states and Guyana now suffering from serious drought and island states now implementing measures to counteract its effects on our populations, the Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects sees the need to distribute this message on water conservation. Download the Water PDF here

The Tragedy and Hidden History of the National Academy for the Performing Arts

Author: Rubadiri Victor The National Academy for the Performing Arts of Trinidad and Tobago (NAPA) has been shrouded in controversy from conception to opening with different constituencies weighing in on its merits and flaws. Artist/activist Rubadiri Victor attempts to analyse NAPA through its construction process, as a building, and as a facility which should have [...]

TTIA Member Forum

A new Trinidad and Tobago Institute of Architects (TTIA) Member Forum has been set up to facilitate both public and private and confidential discussion between architects and also members of the public. The member forum runs on the phpBB3 forum system, now the most widely used forum and bulletin board online community system worldwide. The [...]

TTTI Statement on News Headline in context of Commission of Enquiry

In an official address to the Members and Friends of the Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI), TTTI Chairman Victor Hart has issued this important message: Dear Members and Friends of TTTI The Sunday Guardian carried a headline to an article which quoted me on the current Commission of Enquiry impasse which read: ‘Hart, Warner [...]