Is the proposed Philippine Building Act a bane or a boon?

SOMETIME in 2015, then chairman of the Professional Regulations Commission (PRC) Dr. Florentino Doble came out with a letter addressed to the House Speaker in Congress delineating the responsibilities of each technical professional group. It was the mandate of the PRC as a regulatory body of all professional groups to protect and safeguard the exercise of all professions in the interest of public safety and welfare.

This was apparently an offshoot of legal entanglements in the design and built industry as some professional regulated laws were subjected to various interpretations of their scope of works, including various interpretations of certain provisions of the National Building Code of the Philippines (NBCP) and its Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR). Technical professionals have always referred to the NBCP when designing and constructing vertical structures.