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Listed below are the units for the Chartered Architectural Technologist, MCIAT POP Record Performance Standards

Unit 1  Client and user requirements

1.1  Identify, assess and challenge client requirements
1.2  Identify, analyse and challenge user and community factors

Unit 2  Feasibility studies

2.1  Assess survey requirements, data standards and outputs
2.2  Select critical investigation requirements
2.3  Investigate and evaluate development factors likely problems and potential solutions

Unit 3  Sustainable development

3.1  Identify and evaluate resource availability
3.2  Investigate and evaluate sustainable development requirements
3.3  Establish arrangements for sustainable development impact
3.4  Assess environmental impact of development proposals 

Unit 4  Project planning

4.1  Select and agree procurement procedures with clients
4.2  Recommend and agree forms of contract
4.3  Select and form a design team
4.4  Confirm and agree design team responsibilities and processes
4.5  Establish and monitor design team working methods
4.6 Establish project team partnering

Unit 5  Health and safety

5.1  Identify and assess hazards and risks
5.2  Make design choices to reduce health and safety risks
5.3 Ensure your actions reduce risks to health and safety

Unit 6  Regulations

6.1 Assess regulatory requirements and constraints
6.2 Assess and advise upon options for potential developments
6.3  Assess and advise on legal requirements and constraints
6.4  Confirm statutory control and consent requirements and their implications

Unit 7  Concept design development

7.1  Prepare, present and agree proposals for briefs
7.2  Develop design programmes which meet the requirements of the brief
7.3  Assess and develop significant parameters affecting the project design
7.4  Select, test and develop design options

Unit 8  Design proposals

8.1  Present and justify project design recommendations
8.2  Advise clients on the selection and modification of design proposals
8.3  Assess detailed design implications of design recommendations

Unit 9  Technical design development

9.1  Identify the purpose, methods and techniques for preparing detailed designs
9.2  Evaluate and select materials, components and systems
9.3  Investigate, calculate, analyse and resolve detailed design solutions

Unit 10  Design information management

10.1  Set up systems for controlling document production
10.2  Integrate, evaluate and recommend changes to design information 

Unit 11  Specifications

11.1 Draft prescriptive technical specifications
11.2 Define technical performance specification requirements

Unit 12  Tenders and contracts

12.1 Select and evaluate forms of tender and potential tenderers
12.2 Formulate, estimate, bid and tender enquiries
12.3 Evaluate, select and agree estimates, bids and tenders
12.4 Negotiate and agree contracts
12.5 Issue and enforce certification for contracts

Unit 13  Control compliance

13.1 Control contracts against agreed quality standards
13.2 Control contract compliance with legal and statutory requirements
13.3 Control contract progress against agreed programmes
13.4 Control costs against agreed budgets

Unit 14  Project completion

14.1 Manage project handover and completion      
14.2 Obtain and evaluate feedback information and promote improvements
14.3 Specify information and guidance to support and use and maintenance planning of property, systems and services

Unit 15  Management of meetings

15.1 Manage meetings
15.2 Make analytical contributions to meetings

Unit 16  Professional relationships

16.1 Develop and maintain relationships with people who are affected by your work
16.2 Present technical information and provide advice on technical problems
16.3 Identify, summarise and analyse complex, indeterminate problems
16.4 Contribute to the protection of individual and community interests

Unit 17  Continuing professional development

17.1 Identify, record and analyse personal development aims and progress
17.2 Allocate and monitor the progress and quality of work in your area of responsibility
17.3 Contribute to advances in occupational knowledge and practice

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