UK architects ‘most disadvantaged’ by no-deal Brexit

Alan Vallance RIBA chief exec giving evidence to Brexit Select Ctte

Source: Parliament TV

North American architects will have better access to EU, warns RIBA chief executive

Canadian architects will have better access to EU markets than their British counterparts after Brexit, RIBA’s chief executive has warned.

Alan Vallance said British architects would be potentially the “most disadvantaged”.

He was addressing MPs on the Exiting the EU Select Committee along with other business leaders last week.

Uncertainty was the biggest problem and was already causing projects to be put on hold, he said. But he also talked of the damage tariffs could do and warned that mutual recognition of qualifications remained a key issue.

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