Or. Admin. Code § 806-010-0145 - Continuing Education
(1) In order to
renew or reinstate an architect certificate of registration, the registrant
must:
(a) Complete 24 hours of continuing
education in health, safety, and welfare (HSW) within the two year registration
period prior to renewal or reinstatement.
(b) If the previous registration period was
the individual's initial registration in Oregon, the continuing education will
be considered satisfied.
(c) If the
continuing education is obtained during the renewal grace period, the late
continuing education fee in 806-010-0105(4)(b) will be required.
(2) A continuing education hour
(CEH) is defined as the amount of contact spent in a structured educational
program. A program 15 to 29 minutes in length equals 0.25 CEH, a program 30 to
49 minutes in length equals 0.5 CEH, and a program 50 to 60 minutes in length
equals 1.0 CEH.
(3) If the
registrant completes two or more courses having substantially the same content
during the continuing education cycle, the registrant will only receive
continuing education credit for one of the courses.
(4) Making false statements or
misrepresentations related to continuing education, or failure to comply with
continuing education requirements, may result in disciplinary action.
(5) All continuing education must be in
architectural health, safety and welfare (HSW) subjects, which are those
technical and professional subjects deemed appropriate to safeguard the public
and that are necessary for the proper evaluation, design, construction, and
utilization of buildings and the built environment, including but not limited
to:
(a) Building Systems: structural,
mechanical, electrical, plumbing, communications, security, fire
protection.
(b) Construction
Contract Administration: contracts, bidding, contract negotiations.
(c) Construction Documents: drawings,
specifications, delivery methods.
(d) Design: urban planning, master planning,
building design, site design, interiors, safety and security
measures.
(e) Environmental: energy
efficiency, sustainability, natural resources, natural hazards, hazardous
materials, weatherproofing, insulation.
(f) Legal: laws, codes, zoning, regulations,
standards, life safety, accessibility, ethics, insurance to protect owners and
public.
(g) Materials and Methods:
construction systems, products, finishes, furnishings, equipment.
(h) Occupant Comfort: air quality, lighting,
acoustics, ergonomics.
(i)
Pre-Design: land use analysis; programming, site selection, site and soils
analysis, surveying.
(j)
Preservation: historic, reuse, adaptation.
(6) Continuing education may be audited to
verify compliance with these requirements. Evidence of compliance must be
maintained by the architect for a minimum of two years from the most recent
date of registration or registration renewal in Oregon. If selected for audit,
the individual architect must provide evidence to substantiate completion of
the continuing education requirements. Acceptable evidence of completion is a
certificate or transcript that includes the name of the course provider,
registrant's name, course title, completion date and HSW hours received.
(a) The Board will disallow any claimed
continuing education hours submitted without acceptable evidence, and notify
the individual architect of its determination. If, after excluding hours
disallowed by the Board, the total hours the architect has submitted are
insufficient to meet the requirements of this section, the architect must
within 30 days from notice of such disallowance either provide acceptable
evidence of having completed the continuing education hours or remedy the
insufficiency by completing the required number of continuing education
hours.
(b) If the architect
completes additional continuing education hours to remedy an insufficiency, the
architect will be subject to a late continuing education fee as provided in
806-010-0105. Additional continuing education hours completed to remedy an
insufficiency may not be applied to satisfy continuing education requirements
in a subsequent renewal period.
(c)
If, in the Board's determination, an architect has willfully disregarded the
continuing education requirements of this section, or has falsified
documentation of completion of required continuing education hours, the
architect will be subject to disciplinary action by the Board.
(7) The following activities do
not qualify for meeting the continuing education requirements:
(a) Time spent in unstructured programs or
self-directed study.
(b) Time spent
on architectural educational tours of cities, buildings, or public places,
unless there is a significant health, safety and welfare (HSW) component to the
tour curriculum.
(c) Time spent in
any teaching program sharing professional skills, such as the Architects in
Schools program.
(d) Time spent as
a mentor.
(e) Time spent serving on
a board or committee.
(8) An individual may be granted, at the
discretion of the Board, full or partial exemption from the continuing
education requirements if the individual submits acceptable documentation that
one of the following exemption criteria has been met:
(a) Honorable active duty military service
during the registration period;
(b)
Medical hardship, which shall include health (certified by a medical doctor) or
other good cause. The individual must provide any information requested by the
Board to substantiate the hardship.
Notes
Schedules & Forms referenced are available from the agency.
Statutory/Other Authority: ORS 671.125
Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 671.080 & ORS 671.125
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