Split among choice of architects.
People used to be afraid of architects.
increasing involvement of architects in project realisation.
On Licensing of Facilities Q.
Continued licensing of older product.
In 1950, Ms. Pettersen, who had worked as an apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright, became one of the first women to be licensed as architects in New Jersey.
According to the Mayor's Management Report for the 2000 fiscal year, which ended June 30, the department audited 15.85 percent of the 17,969 self-certified plans submitted by licensed architects and engineers.
Mr. Scarano's lawyer, Raymond T. Mellon, said he would most likely challenge the constitutionality of the 2007 law, which authorizes the city to bar licensed architects.
Mr. Mandl was performing one of 34 "controlled inspections," as the Buildings Department calls them, that licensed architects or engineers (and sometimes plumbers and electricians) must conduct and self-certify during construction of, or on, major buildings.
The winning firms, which must be licensed architects, professional planners or landscape architects, will be paid a stipend of $40,000 apiece for their work, far less than the $3 million being paid to Beyer Blinder Belle and its team of about a dozen consulting companies.
