Practice guidance
Practice guidance and standard documents
Documents RIA issues to help members practise consistently: appointment agreements, guidance notes and technical standards.
What is here
Appointment agreements
Standard terms for engaging an architect.
Guidance notes
Practical notes on recurring practice questions.
Technical standards
Reference standards for design and documentation.
Why this matters
The single most useful document
A standard appointment agreement is the single most useful document RIA could publish for its
members and their clients. Most of the client-side disputes described elsewhere on this site
begin with an appointment that was never written down.
Regulation library
A guidance page with three real documents is worth more than a menu of twelve that cannot be opened.