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Cultivate high-level architectural firms, simplify the qualification standards and indicators of architectural engineering design firms by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development


In order to implement the "Several Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council on Further Strengthening the Management of Urban Planning and Construction", create better conditions for the development of architectural engineering design firms, stimulate the vitality of designers, and promote the development of architectural engineering design firms, recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development issued the "Notice on Promoting the Development of Architectural Engineering Design Firms" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice").
The "Notice" simplifies the qualification standards for construction engineering design firms in the "Engineering Design Qualification Standards" (Jian Shi [2007] No. 86), reduces the number of registered personnel in partnership form design firms, relaxes the age limit for personnel in partnership form design firms, and cancels the assessment of technical equipment, management organizational structure, standard system, quality system, and archive management system.
The Notice stipulates that bidders shall not restrict or exclude construction engineering design firms from participating in various types of construction engineering design bidding within the scope of qualification permits under unreasonable conditions.
The Notice requires that the competent departments for housing and urban-rural development at all levels should further improve the relevant supporting policies of construction engineering design firms, establish and improve the engineering design liability insurance system, and promote the healthy development of construction engineering design firms.
Industry insiders believe that the issuance of the "Notice" is conducive to cultivating a group of high-level architectural firms, cultivating a team of designers and architects with both international perspectives and national confidence, and creating more national architectural masterpieces that are worthy of history and the times; It is conducive to promoting professional collaboration in the architectural design industry. Comprehensive design institutes with Grade A qualifications in the architectural design industry engage in comprehensive architectural engineering design, and design firms provide specialized and refined characteristic services. Comprehensive design and professional services complement each other and leverage their respective advantages; It is conducive to giving full play to the leading role of architects in the entire process of engineering projects, allowing a registered architect to establish an architectural design firm in the form of a general partnership enterprise, which is conducive to stimulating the vitality of architects, achieving the realization of design intentions, and enhancing the status of architects; It is conducive to the formation of a multi-level enterprise structure in the architectural design industry, with firms in the form of general partnerships and limited liability companies. Together with design institutes with limited liability company nature, they form a multi-level enterprise form in the architectural design industry, which is conducive to professionals combining their own characteristics to choose suitable companies or firms to carry out business activities.