Mark Bwambale
Partner
B. Arch (Hons); MUSA, Registered Architect No. 116
Mark Bwambale is a qualified architect and talented designer with a breadth of practice experience spanning mainstream architecture, urban planning and management gained over a period of 24 years and he is one of the Founding Partners at Regenesys.
Having completed studies for his architecture degree from Makerere University in 2000 where he won the Uganda Society of Architects President’s Award for best overall student, he commenced his career with Infrastructure Design Forum in Kampala. He subsequently founded d’ARC Group Ltd with two of his classmates in 2003 and was its director in charge of finance and administration until he moved on to found Regenesys in 2016.
Alongside this practice career, Mark also taught building science at Makerere University’s Urban Planning Undergraduate Program from 2005 to 2012 and worked at Kampala Capital City Authority’s (KCCA) Physical Planning Directorate from 2014 to 2021 where he progressively held the offices of Manager, Deputy Director and finally Acting Director, during which period he oversaw, led and/or participated in several service delivery reforms as well as planning and policy making initiatives at directorate and institutional level. During his tenure Uganda’s Ease of Dealing with Construction Permits under the World Bank’s Doing Business Project improved by 30 positions.
Bolstered by this multifaceted career, he thus possesses a thorough understanding of the legal framework and permitting procedures for the building industry and has played a leading and coordinating role on multidisciplinary teams to deliver a wide range of projects in the Residential, Industrial, Hospitality, Education, Healthcare and Civic sectors among others. Prominent on his project portfolio are the design for the Cell and Gene Therapy Research and Care Centre for the Joint Clinical Research Centre and the sustainable design for Kyangabi Crater Resort lower campus on the fringes of Queen Elizabeth National Park, both in Uganda.
Mark remains a respected opinion and thought leader within the built environment and has not only held various leadership positions but also been delegated or selected to participate in a myriad of policy formulation and legislative processes on behalf of the profession at national and regional level such as negotiating the Architects Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) under the East African Common Market Protocol. In 2023 he was (overwhelmingly) nominated by the Uganda Society of Architects (USA) as one of its 4 representatives to the Architects Registration Board where he is currently serving as a Board Member and chairperson of the 13th Board’s Practice and Registration Committee.
He is also an active member of faith-based communities and has been instrumental in founding the Kasese Kampala Catholic Community (KKACCO) and the Mbarara Ecclesiastical Province Kampala Residents Association (MEPA), both of which he served as the pioneer General Secretary.
His interest in and advocacy for sustainable systems is credited to having spent most of his childhood in the declining mining town of Kilembe set in the precarious Nyamwamba River valley amongst the foothills of the Rwenzori Mountains in western Uganda where he intrinsically developed curiosity about urban and regional systems and their endurance.