The RAIC’s Project Management for Architects course will provide architectural interns, emerging practitioner, and emerging proprietors with a solid grounding in contemporary project management practices, tools and techniques, and support preparation to write the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam. The course is appropriate not only for architects, interns, and project managers in practice, but also public sector professionals involved in capital asset development project.
Course Content
Architectural practice has always been driven by project-based objectives, deliverables, activities, and tasks. In the 70’s and 80‘s architects, engineers and constructors were instrumental in creating the project management processes, tools and techniques that have been adopted by other industrial sectors around the globe. However, project management practise in architectural office may not have kept up to date with structured approaches. As seen in numerous RFPs, clients are seeking levels of project management proficiency that architecture firms may lack.
During the workshop component participants will use a variety of planning tools to support design project management, including:
- work breakdown structures
- schedules
- design project cost estimation and fee proposal development tools
- risk management planning for design projects
- communication and stakeholder management planning tools.
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
- Develop a project plan for a design project including work plan, schedule, bottom-up and top-down fee calculations, and risk management plan.
- Develop a stakeholder management plan for a design project.
- Relate architectural practice to the ten knowledge areas of contemporary project management body of knowledge, as described in PMI’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of knowledge (PMBOK® Guide).
- With additional study, write the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification exam.
Course Instructor: Donald Ardiel, B.Arch., MDE, OAA, PMP
CEU: 35 Hours
Length: Sep 15 - Nov 9, 2025
Hybrid Delivery: 15 hours online AND 3-days face-to-face workshop
Registration Fee: Member: $1,297 | Non-Member: $1,597