Enhance your professional development with the Oxford Brookes University 2024 Architectural Skills Stream CPD, featuring 6 on-demand lectures and an exclusive half day in-person seminar in London on the afternoon of the 6th of November.

ARB CPD Requirements

Architects are free to identify their own CPD activities.

You must record the following:

• date of the activity – if the activity was longer than a day, you can choose to put the start or the end date

• topic – choose the topic option most relevant to the activity

• activity type – choose the activity type closest to the activity

• learning reflection – what you have learned from your activity, how you are applying these to your practice and any known benefits, how this has improved your competency, next steps for future development

The same learning outcome can be identified from multiple activities, and similarly the same outcomes can be identified from more than one activity.

Please do not upload any kind of CPD certificates or attendance reports for events to evidence your record. Such certificates will not be reviewed. The evidence of your development captured by your learning reflection will demonstrate your compliance with the scheme.

2024 ARB Mandatory Topics

• Environmental Sustainability

A. Ethics and professionalism

B. Sustainable design principles

C. Environmental and building physics

D. Construction technology

• Fire and life safety

A. Ethics and professionalism

B. Managing risk

C. Fire and life safety design

RIBA CPD Requirements

All Chartered Members everywhere are required to undertake and record CPD each year as evidence that you are taking organised steps to maintain your competence through continuous learning.

They are expected to: 

• Carry out at least 35 hours of relevant learning each year

• At least 20 of the 35 hours on the 10 mandatory RIBA Core Curriculum CPD topics (two hours per topic per year)

• Make sure half of your CPD is structured where possible, whether this is a face-to-face course or online

• Record your CPD activities using the RIBA online CPD recording tool

• We audit member records on our online recording platform to check compliance. We are unable to accept alternative forms of records or proof.

RIBA Mandatory Topics:

• Architecture for Social Purpose

• Health, safety and wellbeing

• Business, clients and services

• Legal, regulatory and statutory compliance

• Procurement and contracts

• Sustainable architecture

• Inclusive environments

• Places, planning and communities

• Building conservation and heritage

• Design, construction and technology

RIBA Mandatory Competences

• Health and Life Safety (voluntary certification now available)

• Climate Literacy

• Ethical Practice