Diversified Experience in Architecture

(DEA)
Logbook Filing
Possibly for the January 2011 LEA Examinees

UAP Head Office

14 August 2010, Quezon City, PH

Ar Armando N. ALLÍ, apec ar

PRBoA Acting Chairman
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(Resource Person)
 A. DOs for DEA Logbooks
1) Mentor-Architect must be a Registered and Licensed Architect
(RLA) as defined under R.A. No. 9266 (The Architecture Act of
2004) and its 2004 IRR; Mentor-Architects may sign and seal
DEA Logbooks as a private practitioner or as the duly-authorized
representative of a firm employing the prospective LEA Examinee
as an apprentice;
2) Mentor-Architect must possess a current IAPOA Certificate ;
3) Mentor-Architect’s Affidavit must be signed, sealed and notarized
(to make the DEA Logbook a public document);
4) Signature of the Dean or Head of the Architectural School is only
an Optional Requirement for ; and
5) Credits for apprenticeship hours earned while enrolled only start
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 B1. DONTs for DEA Logbooks
1) NO CREDIT HOURS MAY BE ASSIGNED BY THE
PRBoA for Architectural Apprenticeship Work undertaken
by an Examinee for a Project on Philippine soil if the
employer Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) firm
and/or knowledge process outsourcing (KPO) firm DOES
NOT possess a PRC registration as an architectural firm,
as defined under Sec. 37 of R.A. No. 9266;
2) DO NOT COMMIT FRAUD in filling up the Logbook for LDEA as
the PRBoA shall file both criminal and administrative complaints
against both the Examinee and the Mentor-Architect once the
fraudulent act is discovered;
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 B2. DONTs for DEA Logbooks
3) NO CREDIT HOURS MAY BE ASSIGNED BY THE
PRBoA for Architectural Apprenticeship Work undertaken
by an Examinee for an Architect-Mentor/ RLA if both the
Examinee and the Architect-Mentor/ RLA are employed
in an architectural firm that DOES NOT possess a PRC
registration as an architectural firm, as defined under
Sec. 37 of R.A. No. 9266;
4) DO NOT HAVE THE LOGBOOK SIGNED OR SEALED BY ANY
OTHER PROFESSIONAL e.g. particularly by a Civil Engineer as
the said signature and seal SHALL NOT BE HONORED BY THE
PRBoA;
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 B3. DONTs for DEA Logbooks
5) NO CREDIT HOURS MAY BE ASSIGNED BY THE
PRBoA for Architectural Apprenticeship Work undertaken
by an Examinee for an Architect-Mentor/ RLA if the
Architect-Mentor/ RLA collaborates with a Foreign
Architect (FA) on an architectural work on Philippine soil
where the Foreign Architect (FA) DOES NOT possess a
Temporary/ Special Permit (TSP) issued by the PRC, as
defined under Sec. 38 of R.A. No. 9266; and

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 B4. DONTs for DEA Logbooks
6) DO NOT PAY the Architect-Mentor/ RLA or PAY FOR
THE COST OF THE PRC LICENSE RENEWAL OR OF
THE IAPOA CERTIFICATE of the Architect-Mentor/ RLA
who shall sign and seal the DEA Logbook; if the Examinee
is discovered to have paid such an amount (and the Architect-
Mentor/ RLA to have accepted money from the
Examinee), a criminal and administrative complaint shall be filed
by the PRBoA against both; and
7) DO NOT submit the DEA Logbooks with alterations in entries, as
these may NOT be processed by the PRBoA.
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 C1. The future of the DEA Logbooks
1) Mentor-Architects/ RLAs may be required by the PRBoA to
execute a SEPARATE AFFIDAVIT CONCERNING THE STATUS
OF THE EXAMINEES’ APPRENTICESHIP i.e. is the firm an
architectural firm, a construction firm, a development firm, a BPO/
KPO firm registered by the PRC as an architectural firm under
Sec. 37 of R.A. No. 9266, was the project (if on Philippine soil)
done by the Mentor-Architects/ RLAs in collaboration with a
Foreign Architect who possesses a Temporary/ Special Permit
(TSP) issued by the PRC, etc.; the SEPARATE AFFIDAVIT shall
also state the nature of the Mentor-Architects/ RLAs’ professional
relationship with the firm under which the apprenticeship work
was carried out;
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 C2. The future of the DEA Logbooks
2) The evaluation of the DEA Logbook entries on the
apprenticeship hours may be required by the PRBoA to
be done by the IAPOA, with the corresponding IAPOA
certifications;
3) The DEA Logbook may be reformatted by the PRBoA and
the IAPOA to conform to a future IAPOA Mentorship
Program; and
4) A separate AFFIDAVIT to be executed by the Examinee
to attest to the truthfulness of the DEA Logbook entries
may be required by the PRBoA.
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