Architecture (ARCH) 655

Overview

Architecture 655: Architectural Practice Management integrates the study of management practice within the context of architecture as a profession. This course provides the necessary skill sets that architects use in the development of a successful practice. It challenges the graduate student to consider management practice issues that architects must consider and promotes strategic evaluation of project design and process.

Outline

• Unit 1: Getting Work
• Unit 2: Managing the Work
• Unit 3: Architectural Fees and Services
• Unit 4: Project Management and Integrated Project Delivery
• Unit 5: Construction Project Delivery
• Unit 6: Pre-Design Services
• Unit 7: Design Services
• Unit 8: Construction Procurement
• Unit 9: Office-based Construction Administration
• Unit 10: Field-based Construction Administration

Learning Objectives

After completing the course, you should be able to achieve the following:

• Apply various management techniques to the successful operation of an architecture practice, including marketing, financial planning and accounting, risk management, and quality management.
• Determine appropriate fees for a specific project and prepare client-architect agreements.
• Manage architecture projects properly and efficiently from pre-design to take-over and commissioning.
• Administer construction contracts.

Evaluation

In order to pass Architecture 655, you must complete four assignments.  Each one is worth 20% of your grade in the course. The minimum pass mark for the final exam is 50%. It should be noted that students who wish to be certified by the CACB must achieve and maintain a final grade point average of 2.3 or greater. This means that, while a mark of 60% would constitute a pass in the course, marks of 67% or greater are required for students who wish to pursue registration or licensing in architecture.

Students will be required to visit a construction site as part of an assignment. A final open-book invigilated examination on material covered by the course will constitute 20% of the final grade.