Oliver Wainwright’s article about the Grenfell Tower inquiry report was spot-on (‘Professional buck-passers’: why the excoriating Grenfell report was right to damn architects, 5 September). He could also have added that the Royal Institute of British Architects’ complacency on continuing professional development (CPD) has been another factor. On the point about architects being expected to learn about the technical aspects of their profession on the job, it does not only apply to students.
The RIBA advises clients that the main benefit of appointing its members (who are called chartered architects by virtue of being members and seen as a cut above the rest) is that they are subject to CPD.
