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RIBA reveals new CPD curriculum
Institute simplifies structure to help members tailor their curriculum to help maintain skills
The RIBA has simplified its CPD core curriculum. From September 2011 members can tailor their CPD requirements to suit their area of professional expertise.
The previous curriculum identified 31 topics to be covered over five years, whereas the new focuses on ten key topics with at least two hours per topic per year.
The ten topics are
- Being safe: health and safety
- Climate: sustainable architecture
- External: clients, users, and delivery of services
- Internal: professionalism, practice, business and management
- Compliance: legal, regulatory and statutory framework and processes
- Buying it: building procurement and contracts
- Constructing it: structural design, construction, technology and engineering
- Where we live: communities, urban design and planning process
- Context: the historic environment and its setting
- Access for all: universal/inclusive design
The institute believes the new structure will enable architects to pursue CPD to acquire new specialisms more easily, helping them to diversify and learn new skills.
Joni Tyler, head of CPD Policy at the RIBA, said: “We are very excited about this streamlined yet effective and innovative new approach to learning.
“This should help our members much more easily to stay resilient and yet to maintain basic skills at the same time. It will also help the RIBA to refine and better target its CPD offers to our members.”
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