CCS and CCCA MAY be used for core credits in the Material Selection & Specification and Contract Administration areas, but they are NOT mandatory for those areas. You can fulfill the minimum core credit requirement in those areas by other appropriate experience. If you are short of credits in those areas, CCS and CCCA are a means to help provide the minimum credits and would provide some additional incentive for those programs if you are in that situation. Otherwise, there is no strong additional incentive for those programs because they receive core credits.
As I stated earlier, I think it is better for the education programs to provide core credits, but I don’t think it is an “essential issue.” The most important thing to receive IDP credits, either core or elective, to help meet the 5,600 minimum requirement. CDT, CCS, and CCCA all provide credits to meet the 5,600 minimum requirement whether they receive core or elective credits.
At this stage of development of a CSI BTEP, it is probably appropriate to consider any number of metrics by which similar programs are evaluated (by NCARB, AIA, or even NAAB). But it seems way premature to expect NCARB, or anyone else to approve or sanction a CSI program that does not even exist yet.
Does anyone recall how long the CDT program was up and running before NCARB was willing to even consider granting credit for it?
The object is know about any NCARB requirements for any education program to receive IDP credits ahead of time so that can be taken into account in the formulation of the building technology education program.
The object is to know about any NCARB requirements for an education program to receive IDP credits ahead of time so that is taken into account in the formulation of the building technology education program.