Section 804IAC1.1-7-9. Experience and training categories and areas; required value units

   (a) An applicant must acquire a total of seven hundred (700) value units to satisfy the experience and training requirements. One (1) value unit equals eight (8) hours of acceptable activity.

  (b) The following chart lists the experience and training categories and areas and the value unit requirements for each:

CATEGORY A
Design and Construction Documents	Minimum VUs Required
Programming	10
Site and environmental analysis	10
Schematic design	15
Building cost analysis	10
Code research	15
Engineering systems coordination	15
Design development	40
Construction documents	135
Specifications and materials research	15
Documents checking and coordination	10
Minimum total value units required	350*
CATEGORY B
Construction Administration
Bidding and contract negotiation	10
Construction phase─office	15
Construction phase─observation	15
Minimum total value units required	70*
CATEGORY C
Management
Project management	15
Office management	10
Minimum total value units required	35*
* The differences between the minimum total value units required in each of categories A, B, and C and the sum of the minimums required for each training area within the category must be acquired by earning value units from training areas within the same category.
CATEGORY D
Related activities
Professional and community service	10
Other related activities	0
Minimum total value units required	10

  (c) The required minimums in categories A, B, C, and D, as listed in subsection (b), total four hundred sixty-five (465) value units, allowing for two hundred thirty-five (235) additional value units to be acquired in any of the listed categories. All of the two hundred thirty-five (235) additional value units may be acquired in one (1) category or distributed among the categories. (Board of Registration for Architects and Landscape Architects; 804 IAC 1.1-7-9; filed Jan 22, 1990, 5:00 p.m.: 13 IR 1054; filed Jan 28, 1992, 5:00 p.m.: 15 IR 1013; filed Jul 28, 1994, 4:00 p.m.: 17 IR 2864; readopted filed May 10, 2001, 2:40 p.m.: 24 IR 3235; readopted filed Oct 4, 2007, 3:37 p.m.: 20071031-IR-804070042RFA; readopted filed Nov 25, 2013, 9:19 a.m.: 20131225-IR-804130276RFA)