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Regulation of the Profession in Ontario and
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So you Want to Become an Architect?

• A Presentation by
• NAME

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Pathway to Licensure

• Architects are licensed professionals
• Four parts to becoming eligible to be licensed
• Education
• Experience
• Examination
• Admissions Course

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Education

• 11 accredited schools of architecture in Canada
• How do they become accredited?
• Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB)
• Canadian Education Standard
• Conditions and Procedures for Accreditation
• Set by the Regulators
• Automatic certification by CACB of accredited
  schools
• Foreign degrees may also be certified by the CACB

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Experience

• Intern Architect Program national, set by 11
  regulators across Canada
• 3720 hours of practical experience under personal
  supervision of an architect licensed in Ontario
  recorded in the experience record book (CERB)
• Experience must be gathered in specific areas of
  practice breadth of experience is important
• Mentor required important resource to interns

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Examination

• Examination for Architects in Canada (ExAC)
• Recognized nationally as the examination for the
  profession in Canada
• May be written after 2880 hours of experience
  gained
• Practical exam which does not test material
  already tested in school breadth of experience
  important
• 4 sections

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Admission Course

• 3 full days of lectures
• Focus on practices and legal issues in Ontario
• Presently held in conjunction with OAA annual
  conference

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Now You are Eligible to Apply for License as an
Architect

• Applying for your license
• Offering Services to the Public - Certificate of
  Practice
• Professional Liability Insurance - Pro-Demnity
  Insurance Company
• Continuing Education - commitment to maintaining
  competence

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Welcome to the Profession!

• Professional responsibility
• Member of the OAA
• Scope of Practice in Ontario everything is the
  practice of architecture however exceptions are
  set out in the Act
• Architects seal
• What it means...
• When you use it

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So What is the OAA?

• OAA regulates the practice of architecture in
  Ontario (individual architects and practices)
• The privilege of self-regulation
• Protecting the public interest is primary mandate
  more than life safety
• To use the title architect in Ontario you must be
  licensed by the OAA
• 3,316 architects and 1,583 practices
• AND the OAA does much more than regulate

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Ontario Association of Architects

• Supports the profession through services
• Practice advisory services
• Continuing education
• Website tools and resources
• Standard documents
• Collaboration with industry

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Ontario Association of Architects

• Promotes the profession through
• Honours and awards
• Media relations
• Public Documents and promotion

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How Does All This Get Done?

• OAA Council is the governing body
• Established under the Act
• Responsible for setting policy direction related
  to the profession
• 15 elected members and 5 public appointees
• Committees and Task Groups
• 22 staff responsible for day to day operations
  and implementation of policy direction

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What SelfRegulating Means

• All of these things are controlled by the
  profession
• How things get changed Council, Committees
  everyone has the opportunity to become involved
  and shape the profession
• 14 Local Architectural Societies