Well, after a six year process and working through a Pandemic – the Bachelor of Architecture at Atlantic Technological University (ATU) following the RIAI Accreditation Procedures and ratification by the RIAI Council on Friday, October 18th is now the sixth university in Ireland offering an RIAI Accredited Qualification in Architecture.

You can read more about this momentous day in the Irish Independent HERE

The photograph below shows the force of nature and ATU Architecture Director of Accreditation, Bernadette Donohue announcing the accreditation success at the launch of the exhibition of the first Graduates of the Bachelor of Architecture ATU Sligo:

I have probably up until this event have never been involved in a project that involved me being a team member and contributing to the team where the end results of the whole are bigger than that of the individual. I am therefore so proud to have been part of the incredible team of staff and students that have made this happen. And hats-off to the incredible bunch of great students that went through this process – I’ll do a blog post later that mentions them all individually with some of their brilliant work. Everyone of them would be a credit to any architectural practice.

ps and for the history lovers – here’s the POST that started it all off for me, neraly 12 years ago. Bear in mind a lot has happened in the intervening years and a lot has changed since this post was written – for example Brexit changed the entire landscape regarding the European Directive 2005/36/EC on the Recognition of Professional Qualifications.