Project Management focuses on delivering projects that meet your contractual requirements, so you’ll be prepared to budget, coordinate, oversee, and execute a project.
Required hours: 360
You might not be asked to manage a project early in your career, but the smaller tasks in this experience area will help evolve your skills so you’re ready to take on larger responsibilities and opportunities.
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Read the AXP Guidelines
Learn how to document your experience and see a list of all experience areas and tasks with the Architectural Experience Program® (AXP®) Guidelines.
By the time you've completed the AXP, you should be able to competently perform the following tasks:
- Participate in pre-construction, pre-installation, and regular progress meetings with design team
- Determine design fee budget
- Coordinate design work of consultants
- Collaborate with stakeholders during design process to maintain design intent and comply with owner specifications
- Determine project schedule
- Coordinate design work of in-house team members
- Understand implications of project delivery methods
- Prepare Architect-Consultant Agreement
- Prepare written communications related to design ideas, project documentation, and contracts
- Assist client in determining delivery method for construction of project
- Maintain compliance with established milestones
- Prepare Owner-Architect Agreement
- Assist Owner in obtaining necessary permits and approvals
- Perform constructability review to determine buildability, bid ability, and construction sequencing of proposed project
- Conduct periodic progress meetings with design and project team
- Establish methods for Architect-Client communication based on project scope of work
- Identify changes in project scope that require additional services
- Manage modifications to the construction contract
- Manage information exchange during construction
- Perform constructability reviews throughout the design process
- Perform quality control reviews throughout the documentation process
- Define roles and responsibilities of team members
- Determine scope of services
- Manage project-specific bidding process
- Monitor performance of design team consultants
- Evaluate appropriateness of building information modeling (BIM) for proposed project
- Present design concept to stakeholders
- Submit schedule of Architect’s services to Owner for each phase
- Resolve conflicts that may arise during design and construction process
- Prepare staffing plan to meet project goals
- Manage implementation of sustainability criteria
- Assist client in selecting contractors
Find more information about all experience areas in the AXP on our website or in the AXP Guidelines.