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Project management in his or her own right (HMONP)
Training leading to « qualification as an architect who can supervise a construction project in his or her own right ».
Training is provided by the national architectural colleges and is in line with architectural teaching reform system within the European LMD framework. It aims to allow the state-recognized architect to manage the conditions of his or her entry into the profession as per the modified architectural law of January 3, and to take on the resultant responsibilities. For the architect, this involves acquiring, deepening or updating his or her knowledge in three specific areas: the personal responsibilities of project management, project financial control and regulations.
Training leading to « qualification as an architect who can supervise a construction project in his or her own right ».
Training is provided by the national architectural colleges and is in line with architectural teaching reform system within the European LMD framework. It aims to allow the state-recognized architect to manage the conditions of his or her entry into the profession as per the modified architectural law of January 3, and to take on the resultant responsibilities. For the architect, this involves acquiring, deepening or updating his or her knowledge in three specific areas: the personal responsibilities of project management, project financial control and regulations.
This knowledge and competence are gained at the same time by teaching given at the national architecture colleges (at Rennes, the 150 hours of theoretical training are spread out over two sets of two consecutive weeks in December then in March), and by a professional full-time placement of 6 months duration (on the condition that knowledge is validated), the benefits of both should be complementary as far as possible. This training can be started either immediately after obtaining the « Diplôme d’État d’architecte », or after a period of professional activity which involves a process of validating experience gained. At the start of the course a training protocol is established between the establishment and the state-recognized architect to determine a coherent and adapted training route that is supported by a director of studies who is responsible for monitoring the candidate during the length of their training right up until final evaluation, and to act as the link between the part of the training given in college and that relevant to professional application.
Placement in a professional situation, in a place of carrying out project management (whether in France or abroad) is the subject of a three-way agreement between the college, the state-recognized architect and the receiving entity which summarizes the responsibilities that will be given to the architect in order to achieve part of the objectives set in the protocol, and the monthly interactions between the college and the receiving entity to ensure monitoring that re-targets skills to be acquired. The architect must be able to provide evidence of paid employment on the first day of the first training sequence (mid-December). It is the right to work which fixes the status of the employee recruited in the professional structure by either a permanent or temporary contract.
Qualification may be obtained in the context of continuous professional development. The person concerned is effectively already employed by an architectural business and must gain elements of skills that his or her professional experience has not yet enabled. The employee can ask to benefit from a professionalization contract which guarantees him or her, for the duration of the training, a negotiated salary based on the level of training and on his or her age; for the employer, this contract gives rise to exoneration from employer NI contributions, payment up to the limit of the minimum wage (Smic) when the beneficiary is less than 26, The OPCA P/L bearing the cost of training fees and maintenance of remuneration.
