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The ARBV Architectural Services Award
The emphasis of this Award is on excellence of service to clients. It is not a design Award. Satisfied clients play a major role in the Award process, beginning with nomination of their architect.
To be eligible, Architects or Firms should have one nomination.
The Architects Registration Board of Victoria launched its inaugural Architectural Services Award in 2004.
The Award has been very successful with over 100 architects being nominated in its first two years.
The Board is pleased to publicly acknowledge architects' excellent service to clients.
Clients of architects may obtain a nomination form from their architect or direct from the Board.
Aims of the Award
The award has been developed as part of the Board's charter to promote excellence in professional service provided by registered architects in Victoria.
The ARBV often receives enquiries regarding the services provided by architects and has designed the award criteria around common areas of uncertainty and complaint, which, invariably do not focus on design.
The Board, considers that the criteria of the Architectural Services Award reflect the expectations of clients and the community with regard to professional services provided by architects.
The Board reviewed the characteristics of good architectural service to create an award that focuses on the architect's ability to meet the clients' needs in areas of information and communication, design processes, management and contractual fulfilment.
Through the promotion of this award, the ARBV seeks to alert both the public and profession to the high-quality service available from architects and encourage architects to maintain their level of service in these key areas.
Eligibility
The Architectural Services Award is open to all architects registered in Victoria.
To be eligible for this award, the architect or firm must have a client nomination for a project completed in the last two years.
The award will be judged by an expert panel of architects, consumers and industry professionals appointed by the ARBV.
To nominate their architect, clients should complete the ARBV Architectural Services Client Evaluation form available from their architect or the ARBV. Nominations should be sent directly to the ARBV by the nomination closing date.
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The winning architect, announced at a special award ceremony to be held in December each year, will receive $5000 and a framed certificate of excellence. The client also will receive a framed certificate.
To complement the Architectural Services Award, the ARBV has developed a brochure, Working With Your Architect, which outlines the services, roles and responsibilities of architects. It also provides advice to clients about their roles and responsibilities when working with an architect – all common areas of enquiry to the ARBV.
Architects can provide the brochure to clients as a summary of the architectural process or clients may obtain the brochure from the ARBV directly or via the ARBV website.
For further information about the Architectural Services Award or the Working With Your Architect brochure contact the ARBV on (03) 9417 4444.
Professional Practice Award
The Architects Registration Board of Victoria makes an annual award known as the 'Registration
Board Award for Professional Practice'.
This is an award to the top 4th or 5th year student in a Professional Practice subject identified by the Head of School in each approved architecture course in Victoria. The student must be enrolled in an approved course that leads to satisfaction of the Board's academic requirements for registration.
The Head of School will forward their nomination to the Registrar, ARBV.
The Award is presented annually at the ARBV Certification and Awards Ceremony.
The value of the award is $1000. Enquiries may be made to the Registrar of the Board.
Association of Women in Architecture Prize
This prize is sponsored by the Association of Women in Architecture, the ARBV and the three participating Universities in recognition of the importance of design in architecture courses.
The prize will be awarded annually to an outstanding woman student in each final year course in architecture, in the field of architectural design on the recommendation of the Head of School of each approved course.
The prize is valued at $500.
The sponsor may elect not to make an award in any given year.
The Head of School will forward their nomination to the Registrar, who will make appropriate
arrangements with the sponsor. The Award is presented annually at the ARBV Certification and
Awards Ceremony.
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