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About CPD at the RIBA

All our chartered members must carry out continuing professional development (CPD). We use your CPD record as evidence of the steps you take to maintain competence.

CPD is really only a concept. It is a flexible approach to maintaining competence, and is a requirement common to most professions. Whether structured or self-directed, the learning activities should maintain or improve your competence, skills, abilities and knowledge, giving you new skills for new challenges.

CPD is very much about what you want or need to learn based on your professional circumstances at any given time. CPD should be as personal as possible and should improve your professional performance.

It should not be hard work or difficult to carry out CPD. In fact, keeping up with your CPD can be easy if you plan ahead. We have created a CPD framework to help you.

Our framework provides a structure to CPD, offering guidance while allowing you to decide how you approach it. It is a set of rules that govern the minimum requirements you must meet and it is designed to help you manage your CPD in an organised way.

The CPD framework includes guidance on:

• what activities count as CPD;
• examples of structured CPD and informal CPD; and
• details of our RIBA CPD Core Curriculum.

The CPD rules include the minimum steps you must take to maintain competence. The minimum requirements are:

• you must carry out at least 35 hours of CPD each year and build up at least 100 learning points to the CPD you carry out;
• at least 19.5 hours of your CPD each year must be gained from our RIBA CPD Core Curriculum syllabus, including health and safety – you can do the other 15.5 hours from relevant subjects you choose;
• where possible, you must gain at least half your CPD from structured learning
• you must record your CPD online using our CPD recording manager
• and plan your CPD as much as possible.

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