Continuing Education

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Continuing education is mandatory both for maintaining your AIA membership as well as maintaining your license to practice architecture in Minnesota. The requirements vary slightly and are as follows:

AIA’s Requirement.
AIA’s requirement is 18 hours of continuing education, 8 of which must address Health, Safety, Welfare (HSW) issues. Examples of HSW seminars are those that address building codes, fire codes, accessibility issues, environmental issues, structural issues, etc. This is an annual requirement. If you exceed the requirement in any given year, the extra hours can be carried over to the following year (but no more than one year’s requirement can be carried over). If you do not meet the requirement, you have a grace period of nine months (through September 30) to make up the preceeding year’s requirement but you must meet the current year’s requirement, as well.

State of Minnesota’s Requirement.
Continuing education is required to maintain your license in Minnesota.  The requirement is 24 hours of Health Safety Welfare credits every two years. The current biennium is July 1, 2004 through June 30, 2006. You will receive a renewal notice from the State of Minnesota along with a form to note the continuing education that you’d like applied to this mandatory CE requirement for this biennium.
www.aelslagid.state.mn.us

Reporting and RecordKeeping.
If you attend an AIA seminar (or other seminar that is sponsored by an AIA Registered Provider), the credit for your attendance will be reported for you to AIA and recorded on your AIA transcript. If you participate in any other continuing education activity for which you’d like to receive credit, use the Self-Report Form that can be found on the national AIA’s web site, http://www.aia.org/ces_m_default under CES Transcript Login. This transcript should be acceptable to verify HSW continuing education credit for the State of Minnesota, as well. However, the State and AIA advise you to keep a file of your continuing education activities including dates, subjects, duration, sponsor, hours, receipts, program brochures, handouts, etc.

For more information, check out the the following web sites or you can contact Deanna Christiansen, AIA Minnesota Continuing Education Director.
christiansen@aia-mn.org
www.aia-mn.org