Time for CERB
Haven't been blogging over the summer, but now I'm back.Basic news is that I took my last exam Building Technology. Had a bit of a dazed celebration that evening with 10 interns and some bubbly. Found out a month or so later that I passed it, so yay! No more AREs for me!
The Orals are coming up in October so now I am currently racing against a mental and a real clock to get my hours in.
I'm going over the CERB , typing it all in and, hey, whoa .... 560 hours in Construction Administration?! Potentially equivalent to 200 hour-long meetings, 200 hour-long site visits, enough bidding and contract negotiation for 16 projects at 10 hours each? Do I have the right form here? Is there an updated one I'm missing out on?
I'm apparently not the first one to catch on to this hook:
"I have now been working on IDP for 46 months at 3 different architecture firms. I have had trouble completing the Construction Administration portions of the requirements ..." (posting on ARE Forum by "juko101", posted 2:30pm, 23 Dec 2007)
"This is one of the harder areas in which to get experience as an intern, but it is a critical one, so persist in asking if you find your office prefers to give such work to more senior employees."
(page 86, Practical Experience: An Architecture Student's Guide to Internship and The Year Out, 2004, By Igor Marjanovic, Katerina Ruedi Ray, Katerina Rüedi, Jane Tankard) - good book to get, no?
What gives? Why the magic number, equivalent to 10% of our total hours? And can anyone tell me: on what basis can an intern can reasonably be expected to attain 560 hours of construction administration within, say, the first 3 years of employment?
Anyways, I just notice that I have already completed half my hours and am eligible for the Orals. As long as I'm not in a rush to get registered I'm fine.
posted by Lisa @ 8:05 PM
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