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The Ministry of Transport Mobility and Urban Agenda Mitma through the General Directorate of Urban Agenda and Architecture has opened the prior public consultation on the regulation of two key elements to meet the objectives of Law 92022 of June 14 Quality of Architecture create the House Museum of Architecture and form the Council on the Quality of Architecture.Any citizen organization or association may send their contributions to the law until January 31 through the Public Participation page of the Ministry of Transport Mobility and Urban Agenda see links at the end of the note.Mitma promotes broad participation in the process to outline the regulation of these two bodies and thus continue with the dialogue started in the participatory process that was articulated for the elaboration of the Architecture Quality Law that was called PECA Proposals on the Built Environment and Architecture mitma.es .House Museum of ArchitectureThe House Museum of Architecture seeks to bring the values of architecture closer to society as a tool of cultural diplomacy. The institution has the vocation of becoming a national and international benchmark for the dissemination of architecture.This body will perform both the functions of a museum adapted to the present as well as those more typical of a platform for exchange between institutions and associations linked to the dissemination of architecture.Among the functions that it will assume the dissemination of the Spanish architectural legacy and its contemporary representations the positioning of the excellence of Spanish architecture on the national and international scene the promotion of citizen participation both in the sector directly linked to architecture and in the group of the society. Likewise the House Museum of Architecture aspires to become a forum for debate on the role of architecture or support for young professionals and the promotion of research and innovation.In the field of heritage protection the Museum of Architecture will create a catalog of architectural works of interest that will serve as a guide for Public Administrations to prepare their own catalogs of protected buildings. In addition in coordination with the Council on the Quality of Architecture it will request ex officio the initiation of protection files before the competent Public Administrations in relation to examples of recognized quality architecture.Council on the Quality of ArchitectureFor its part the Architecture Quality Council will be established as a platform for the exchange of knowledge and participation as well as consultation and advice on matters related to the contents of the Law.The functions of the Architecture Quality Council are grouped into two large blocks. The first of them contains the functions aimed at the protection promotion and dissemination of the quality of architecture and the improvement of governance promoting through them the approach to society of the values of architecture with special attention to contemporary architecture and promoting at the same time its protection and conservation by the competent Public Administrations. In addition it is responsible for promoting innovative pilot projects that promote the practical application of RDi initiatives related to the field of construction.The other group of functions focuses on public procurement including the adoption of standards or measures of a general nature to improve the quality of the architecture or the modification of existing ones as well as the exercise of advisory tasks to bodies of contracting that so request on the estimate of fees for the determination of the base budgets of bidding of the administrative contracts of services that have as object the drafting of architectural projects.Likewise another of the functions of this Council will be to carry out the preparation and dissemination of contracting specifications and other documents of an orientative nature that simplify expedite contracting and innovative public purchasing on the matters covered by this law.Architecture Quality LawThe Architecture Quality Law approved by the Cortes Generales last June is the first State Law that aims to protect promote and disseminate the quality of architecture as a good of general interest. Among the purposes of this standard is the protection of the architectural heritage and the approach of the values of architecture to society.Said Law collected in its articles 6 and 7 respectively the figures of the Council on the Quality of Architecture and the Architecture House Museum and empowered the Government to its constitution and regulation whose regulatory development starts with these public consultations.General Registry of the Technical Building Code Simultaneously to this regulatory development and given its close relationship with quality in the field of construction it is intended to review the content and structure of the General Register of the Technical Building Code CTE created by article 4 of Part I of the CTE and regulated by Order VIV17442008 of June 9.
