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Continuing Professional Development (CPD) obligations exist to help ensure that qualified professionals maintain their competence to practise. This is true in countless professional sectors in the UK.
 
At its very basic level, CPD is for consumer protection. It is also a way of ensuring that architects keep up-to-date within a rapidly changing profession. CPD should also enhance an architect's current and future development (professionally, personally and for staff within a business).
 
All chartered members of the RIBA are obliged to do CPD every year. This is true no matter where in the world the member lives or what sort of work is undertaken. Only fully retired members are exempt from this obligation.
 
Chartered members of the RIBA are required to do the following each year:

• at least 19.5 hours per year from the RIBA's prescribed core curriculum for CPD
  
• at least 15.5 hours of professional development in other subjects relevant to your own CPD needs
  
• record activity via the RIBA's CPD record sheet (preferably online)
  
• plan CPD via the RIBA's professional development plan (preferably online)

The RIBA will, at the end of every year, monitor a random sample of chartered members' CPD. We will ask to see CPD record sheets. It would be helpful to see professional development plans as well.
 
How can the RIBA help?

The RIBA's CPD programme helps keep its members and other construction professionals up-to-date with training support, new ideas and updates.

 

The CPD team at the RIBA can advise you on keeping up to date in your profession. We also work to continually raise the standards of the RIBA's own CPD provision. Working with national and international partners on CPD policy and agreements, we create new opportunities for our own members and other professionals. Whether you are based in the UK or internationally, we can help you find appropriate CPD; answer your questions on your obligations; advise you about setting up CPD systems in the practice; and generally help you with your lifelong learning.

 
We can offer advice and bring quality CPD through seminars and courses in our regional offices, our Northern Region CPD club, our certificate courses, such as project management, at conferences at Portland Place and elsewhere, and through the acclaimed free RIBA CPD Providers Network  | and the new RIBA Skill| service.