Foreign Architect Path to NCARB Certification Documentation Checklist
This helpful checklist explains the application process for foreign architects seeking NCARB certification.
Security Planning and Design Part 5: Building Security Techniques
This part of the series profiles available security equipment and systems for surveillance, detection, and access control functions in buildings...
2018 NCARB by the Numbers
The 2018 edition of NCARB by the Numbers provides exclusive insight into attrition along the path to licensure, diversity in the profession, and more.
Security Planning and Design Part 2: Understanding Threats, Hazards and Security Design Concepts
Part 2 of this series examines threats driving the need for security planning and design in buildings. It focuses on criminal and terrorist threats...
Wind Forces Part V: Example of Wind Pressure Analysis and More
Explore ways to strengthen a structure's wind resistance and review a sample wind pressure analysis in this month's Wind Forces installment. $25 (free...
ARE Update: Don’t Impact Your Future—the Importance of Exam Security
NCARB wants to be sure every candidate understands the candidate agreement and important testing policies. Released March 2018.
Wind Forces Part IV: Sliding - Uplifting - Overturning
Review the methods that can be used to improve building resistance against overturning, uplift, and sliding. $25 (free for NCARB Certificate holders).
ARE 5.0 Guidelines
Includes exam policies, scheduling instructions, and more for candidates testing with PSI. Updated April 2024.
Wind Forces Part III: Building Design Concepts to Resist Wind/Descriptive Examples of Building Design for Wind
Continue our exploration of basic wind principles with this review of how building structure can be designed to resist pressures. $25 (free for NCARB...
IPAL Annual Report Form
IPAL-accepted schools should use this form to submit their annual report.