A Sustainability Action Plan is your firm’s unique strategy for prioritizing and meeting sustainability goals. This guide shows you how.
Best Practices
Architect’s Guide to Building Performance
November 28, 2023
Energy modeling early and often is the best way to improve building performance. The Architect’s Guide to Building Performance helps architects better integrate…
Business Intelligence
Integrated Project Delivery: A Guide
November 28, 2023
This authoritative guide walks you through the principles of Integrated Project Delivery so you can advocate for, set up, and deliver integrated projects.
Business Intelligence
Good Samaritan State Statute Compendium
November 29, 2023
Good Samaritan laws afford liability protection to architects providing disaster assistance. This resource explores the advantages of such laws, details state…
Career and the profession
Quality control: Preparation of working drawings
November 30, 2023
Contributed by Victor
Chapter 10.06 Construction drawings
The quality of working drawings is among the primary metrics clients use to assess the quality of an…
Career and the profession
Defining the architect's basic services
November 30, 2023
Contributed by the AIA Knowledge Resources staff
Chapter 15.01 Defining Project Services
Understand the common services of architectural design and the process…
Design specialty
Modular & off-site construction guide
November 30, 2023
Design for Modular Construction is a starter guide for architects interested in learning the value and opportunities of modular design and examining case…
Best Practices
Architecture as a value proposition
November 30, 2023
Contributed by Barry Lynch, AIA, CFM
Chapter 6.02
When selling your services to a potential client, it is important to sell the value of good architecture rather…
Business Intelligence
AIA Global Practice Primer
November 30, 2023
Developed by the AIA Global Practice Committee, the AIA Global Practice Primer is a culmination of decades of international experience and work designed to…
Career and the profession
Standard of care: Confronting errors & omissions up front
November 30, 2023
Contributed by Dale L. Munhall, AIA
Chapter 16.01 Risk management strategies
Explore best practices on how to create an initial mutual understanding of the…
Energy
Architect’s Primer on Renewable Energy
November 29, 2023
Now more than ever, architects are called to design high-performance buildings. This renewable energy starter guide provides architects with the tools to meet…
Business Intelligence
Know Your Worth: Are you compensated fairly?
December 8, 2023
Know Your Worth is a group of resources and support for emerging and established architects focused on understanding your marketplace value. It opens a window…
Business Intelligence
Materials Pledge Starter Guide
November 30, 2023
The Materials Pledge Starter Guideis a resource on how your firm can holistically evaluate building products using the Architecture & Design Materials Pledge. …
Business Intelligence
ROI: Reducing up-front costs
November 28, 2023
Sustainable, high-performance design can cause concerns about high up-front costs, but an integrated design process, smart tradeoffs, and various grants and…
Business Intelligence
Architects' Guide to Business Continuity
November 29, 2023
Get expert guidance for reducing and recovering from firm disruption. The Architect's Guide to Business Continuity increases firm resilience with a step-by-step…
Building science and technology
Technology, Culture, & the Future of the Architectural Firm
December 8, 2023
Technology, Culture, & the Future of the Architectural Firm closes the knowledge gap between architects and the building products industry, so firms can better…
Career and the profession
A guide to engaging with civic leaders
November 28, 2023
Architects actively engage with civic leaders to address the critical issues affecting cities, towns, and neighborhoods. AIA’s Civic Engagement Toolkit teaches…
Business Intelligence
Five steps to thrive
November 29, 2023
Download AIA’s Five Steps to Thrive—a brief five-step guide for architects to demonstrate their value to clients and potential clients as they review their…
Climate action
Climate Action Plan
November 29, 2023
AIA’s Climate Action Plan provides architects with actionable steps, tools, and resources to achieve climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and decarbonization…
Building Life Cycle Assessment in Practice
December 6, 2023
Use this definitive guide to understand life cycle assessments, methods, and tools, then explore guidelines for integration in building design and evaluation…
