| Chartered Association of Building Engineers | |
| Abbreviation: | CABE |
| Predecessor: | The Association of Building Engineers |
| Formation: | 1925 |
| Type: | Professional body |
| Purpose: | Enabling a professional construction sector that works to create better, safer and more sustainable buildings that enhance people's lives. |
| Headquarters: | Billing Brook Road, Weston Favell, Northampton NN3 8NW |
| Coords: | 52.2589°N -0.8364°W |
| Region Served: | International |
| Language: | English |
| Key People: | Richard Harral, Interim Chief Executive |
| Main Organ: | Presidential Team and Council |
| Affiliations: | CABE Patron: John Lytton, 5th Earl of Lytton |
| Num Staff: | 25 - 50 |
| Website: | cbuilde.com |
| Former Name: | Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors |
Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) is a professional body for building engineers in the United Kingdom and overseas.
Chartered Association of Building Engineers was founded as the Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors (IAAS) in 1925 in London. The Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors became the Association of Building Engineers in 1993 and then the Chartered Association of Building Engineers in 2014, its current name, when it received Royal Charter.[1]
The IAAS was among the bodies which opposed a draft bill which was presented to Parliament in 1927 by the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) Registration Committee in the course of events which resulted in the passing of the Architects (Registration) Act 1931.
Under the 1931 Act, the Architects' Registration Council of the United Kingdom (ARCUK) was established with the duty of setting up, maintaining and publishing the Register of Architects. The IAAS was among the bodies named, together with the RIBA, in the First Schedule of the Act as being entitled to appoint one member in respect of every five hundred of their own members.
The Register of Architects is now maintained and published under the Architects Act 1997, which reconstituted ARCUK. In consequence, the IAAS was no longer an appointing body, nor any of the other bodies named in the 1931 Act, which has been repealed.
Since 2008 CABE has held a license to award registration with Society of the Environment; CABE members may apply for registration as CEnv, REnvP, or REnvTech.
In 2020, Chartered Association of Building Engineers opened a second office in Hong Kong, chaired by Kyran Sze.
Since 2020 CABE has been registered with the Engineering Council and its members may apply for registration as CEng, IEng, and EngTech.
CABE is a membership organisation and is governed by a board of directors that sets the objectives of the organisation – the executive team deliver these objectives. Entry to membership of CABE is via several routes and members must undertake continuing professional development throughout the lifetime of their membership of the association in order to maintain their professional standards.[2]
CABE has several designations for members, these are:[2]
CABE has regions in the United Kingdom and Ireland each with elected Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer and Committee, these are:[3]
In addition, CABE operates in the following countries:
| Escutcheon: | Quarterly Gules and Azure a fesse embattled between three lions' faces Or. |
| Crest: | On a wreath Or Gules and Azure a representation of the Parthenon Proper. |
| Mantling: | Gules doubled Or. |
| Supporters: | On the dexter side a figure representing an architect of the seventeenth century holding in the exterior hand a plan of St. Paul's Cathedral and on the sinister side a surveyor of the same period holding in the exterior hand a surveyor's pole and over the shoulder a surveyor's chain all Proper. |
| Motto: | Probitate Et Arte [4] |
| Notes: | Granted 24 January 1955 |