Professional Negligence and Liability
Chapter 7
ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS AND QUANTITY SURVEYORS
I. INTRODUCTION
7. Architects
7.1 An architect has been defined by the courts as:“One who possesses, with due regard to aesthetic as well as practical considerations, adequate skill and knowledge to enable him (i) to originate, (ii) to design and plan, (iii) to arrange for and supervise the erection of such buildings or other works calling for skill in design and planning as he might, in the course of his business, reasonably be asked to carry out or in respect of which he offers his services as a specialist.”