Architects' Accelerator Blog
NCARB Competency Standard 15 Understand ethical & professional standards for architectural practice
By: David Clarke Published on: 01/06/2025What are ethical and professional standards? These are things that ultimately take 10 years or more to learn, maybe your lifetime, to learn through various experiences that you have along the way.
NCARB Competency Standard 10 Evaluate the progress of construction
By: David Clarke Published on: 01/06/2025The most important thing that you can do early in your career is get on construction sites. In order to meet this competency standard, what you can do right now is, of course, go on a construction site, but go there with intent. Plan out your site visit.
NCARB Competency Standard 9 Prepare & Adminster Documentation of the Construction Phase
By: David Clarke Published on: 31/05/2025This is everything about the construction phase bidding and construction the construction phase, for context, says the domain encompasses the services that support the process of procurement and management, of design, delivery, review and observation through construction. So this is a broad focus on the bidding process and construction.
NCARB Competency Standard #7: Create deliverables that convey a design solution.
By: David Clarke Published on: 31/05/2025Deliverables are how we communicate with clients, contractors and the public, and you probably do it everyday. You create documents that are written or drawn or modeled--maybe three dimensional physical or three dimensional on the computer.
