CEU: 35 Hours | Length: 8 Weeks
Hybrid Delivery: 15 hours online AND 3-days face-to-face workshop
Registration Fee: Member: $1,297 | Non-Member: $1,597
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.
This course provides a structured approach to managing projects using widely adopted tools and techniques described in the PMBOK® Guides 6th and 7th Editions. The course places the PMBOK® Guide ‘s 6th Edition 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups, and the 7th Edition’s project management principles and performance domains into the context of architectural practice.
During the workshop component participants will use a variety of planning tools to support design project management, including:
At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
In addition to operating his own architectural practice for 20 years, Don Ardiel has developed and delivered project management programs, courses, and workshops for post-secondary institutions, architectural associations, and corporate clients. As the past-Director of Certification for the Project Management Institute’s Southwestern Ontario Chapter, past-Co-ordinating Developer and Lead Instructor for Western University’s Professional Certificate in Project Management Program, and Curriculum Developer for Lambton College’s two-year Advanced Project Management and Strategic Leadership Program, Don has helped thousands of people prepare for the PMP® certification exam and a career as a project management professional.
Course Schedule
Classes are limited to 30 participants.
Hybrid Delivery: 15 hours online AND 3-days face-to-face workshop
Registration Fee: Member: $1,297 | Non-Member: $1,597
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.
This course provides a structured approach to managing projects using widely adopted tools and techniques described in the PMBOK® Guides 6th and 7th Editions. The course places the PMBOK® Guide ‘s 6th Edition 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups, and the 7th Edition’s project management principles and performance domains into the context of architectural practice.
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.
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.
In addition to operating his own architectural practice for 20 years, Don Ardiel has developed and delivered project management programs, courses, and workshops for post-secondary institutions, architectural associations, and corporate clients. As the past-Director of Certification for the Project Management Institute’s Southwestern Ontario Chapter, past-Co-ordinating Developer and Lead Instructor for Western University’s Professional Certificate in Project Management Program, and Curriculum Developer for Lambton College’s two-year Advanced Project Management and Strategic Leadership Program, Don has helped thousands of people prepare for the PMP® certification exam and a career as a project management professional.
Course Schedule
- 2025 Fall Term in Toronto – Sept 25 – Nov 9, 2025 Register for Fall Term Toronto Class
- 2026 Winter Term in Calgary – Jan. 22 – March 8, 2026 Register for Winter Term Calgary Class
Classes are limited to 30 participants.