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GATE 2022 AR — Architecture – Question 21

Project Management and Professional Practice · Professional practice and ethics · 1 mark · Multiple select

Under the Council of Architecture Handbook of Professional Documents 2015, in which situations are architects liable?

  1. The building is used for a purpose other than the designed purpose.
  2. Owners or occupants make unauthorised changes or illegal modifications.
  3. The client suffers loss due to lack of proper professional service.
  4. The architect fails to attain the standard of care prescribed by law.

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Correct answer: (C) The client suffers loss due to lack of proper professional service.; (D) The architect fails to attain the standard of care prescribed by law.

Explanation

The cited professional-liability provisions concern deficient professional service causing client loss and failure to meet the required standard of care: C, D. A later change of use or an unauthorised alteration by others does not automatically establish that the architect failed in the commissioned professional duty.

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