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 agreementsStandard terms for engaging an architect.
Guidance notesPractical notes on recurring practice questions.
Technical standardsReference 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.