Contacts: The Council

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Peter Oborn

President- CAA

Country UK

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Kalim A Siddiqui

Immediate Past President

Country Pakistan

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Vincent Cassar

Honorary Secretary, Treasurer, Immediate Past President – CAA

Country Malta

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Biography

Perit Vincent Cassar B.Arch., FIHEEM, FICE, C.Eng., A. & C.E.

Perit Vincent Cassar, a graduate in Architecture and Civil Engineering from the University of Malta, joined the Public Service in 1973 as a Junior Architect and Civil Engineer with the then Public Works Department and was assigned to the Schools and Hospitals Section. Since then he has worked within other sections of the Public Works organization and was responsible for various projects including those for housing, healthcare and hospitals, and other major projects of a civil engineering nature such as roads and marine works. He was involved in environmentally related projects such as those for the formulation of the Sewerage Master Plan and the works related to it, the collection, separation and treatment of solid wastes and the treatment of liquid wastes.
With the reorganization of the Public Works in 1992 into the Works Division made up of a number of Departments, Perit Cassar was appointed as the first Director General, a position he actively occupied up till 2003.

Following the Malta General Elections in April 2003 he was appointed Permanent Secretary within the Ministry for Youth and the Arts. With a change in premiership in February 2004 and the establishment of the Ministry for Urban Development and Roads, responsible for urban development and land transport issues, he assumed the responsibility for that Ministry as its Permanent Secretary.

Perit Cassar retired from Government service in June 2008 and is currently engaged in his own private practice as a Perit and freelance consultant.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Civil Engineers (FICE) and a Fellow of the Institute of Health Estate Engineering Management (FIHEEM), a past President of the Rotary Club La Valette and ex-Chief Scout of the Scout Association of Malta. He is currently the President of the Kamra tal-Periti and its National Delegate to the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE), the European Council of Civil Engineers (ECCE) and Immediate Past President of the Commonwealth Association of Architects (CAA).

Steven Oundo

Senior Vice President

Country Kenya

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Biography

Born in 1971, Arch. Steven Wandera Oundo graduated from the University of Nairobi with a Bachelor of Architecture (Hons) Degree and is pursuing a Master in Business Administration Degree from the same University. He is Past Chairman of the Architectural Association of Kenya (AAK) and the newly constituted National Construction Authority.

Prior to election as Chairman in 2009, Arch Oundo served the Architectural Association of Kenya in various capacities for more than a decade including Vice Chairman and a member of the Governing Council and Convenor of the Ethics and Practice Committee. He has also served as Treasurer and 2nd Vice President of the East Africa Institute of Architects (EAIA).

He has also served in a number of international professional organizations including the Africa Union of Architects (AUA) where he currently serves as Treasurer, Commonwealth Association of Architects (Alternate Vice President of Africa – East) and therefore a Council member until 2013 and is also the Senior Vice-Chairman of the Association of Professional Societies in East Africa (APSEA).

A registered architect, Arch. Oundo is a Member of the Board of Registration of Architects and Quantity Surveyors of Kenya (BORAQS) in Kenya where he heads the Education Board as well as a partner and architect for Trioscape Planning Services LTD.

In addition, he is a Member of Interim Technical, Industrial, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TIVET) Steering Committee under the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology since 2009. He is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Kenya Branch).

He has served in the CAA Validation Board for the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology in 2010 and 2012.

Arch. Oundo was recently awarded the Order of the Grand Warrior (OGW) by H.E. Mwai Kibaki, President of the Republic of Kenya for distinguished service to the Nation.

Statement of Intent

Networking and communication remains an essential function of the Commonwealth Association of Architects. With such a rich, diversified and spread-out membership, there is a strong case for enhancing information sharing among members across the world in promoting the practice of Architecture across the Commonwealth.

As Chair of the Board of Practice, key initiatives toward this will include strengthening the Association’s electronic communication platform and online presence to create a vibrant online Community of Practice. This will help in promoting information sharing and learning.

This will include:

Redesign and enrichment of the CAA website to include a web portal that can work as a reservoir / reference point for information;

Development of a new electronic journal of the Association;

Development of new short courses and other Continuous Development Programmes to be delivered online.