Pick up where you left off.
Course Content
How Do I Get Paid for the Extra Work?
Whether the work is extra is decided by the schedule you signed, not by how hard it was.
Additional services, variations and the record that supports a fee claim. How to tell an included request from an additional one the day it arrives, use the additional services provision already in your client architect agreement, get authority before the work is done, and keep a record a fee claim can stand on.
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4 modules, 2 case studies, final quiz and certificate.
Introduction and objectives
Why unpaid extra work is a process problem rather than a confidence problem, and the four things you will be able to do by the end.
Knowing the Work Has Changed
Sort a request against the signed schedule instead of judging it by how hard it is.
What the Agreement Already Gives You
Use the additional services provision, the authority to instruct and the exclusions you already signed.
Asking Before You Do It
Raise it the day it happens, price what you cannot fully see, and decline without losing the client.
The Record and the Claim
The note on the day, an invoice a stranger can follow, and what the options really are if payment is refused.
Four rounds, and a project manager who left
Eleven small changes absorbed by precedent, and an instruction nobody could point to.
Key takeaways
The habits that stop the fee argument ever starting.
Final quiz and certificate
Ten practice scenarios. Pass and the certificate goes straight into your dashboard.
Intermediate. For people who already run projects under a client architect agreement. Covers additional services, variations, authority to instruct and the record behind a fee claim. It is practice management education, not legal advice, and it does not draft your agreement for you.
Written for the people who absorb the extra work.
Registered Architect
You take the request on site, do the work, and find the fee conversation impossible three months later.
Practice Principal
You carry the write-offs, and you see them only after the stage has closed.
Project Architect
You run the day to day, so you are the one who hears the request first.
Contract Administrator
You handle instructions, variations and progress claims, where authority either exists or does not.
Practice Manager
You raise the invoices, and you need a claim a client can follow without an argument.
Where this hour goes on your record.
National Standard of Competency for Architects (NSCA 2021) performance criteria this course aligns with:
Client architect agreements
Reporting and varying scope of services
Client and stakeholder communication
Record keeping and document control
Progress claims, variations and extensions of time
| If you are | How it is recorded |
|---|---|
| An architect | 1 formal CPD point. Aligned with NSCA 2021 performance criteria PC5, PC6, PC7, PC55 and PC57. |
| A practice principal or practice manager | 1 CPD point. Your certificate, the learning outcomes, the module outline and your quiz result are kept in your dashboard, so you can show what you studied if your CPD is audited. |
| A contract administrator or project manager | 1 hour of CPD on additional services, variations and the records behind a fee claim, recorded on your certificate for your registration body or state scheme. |
CPD On Demand is not a registered training organisation and courses are not accredited by any registration body. Each course is aligned with the relevant competency frameworks and gives you the records to evidence it. CPD rules differ by registration body and state, so check with yours if you are unsure.
Pairs well with.
Contracts & Risk Management for Architects and Designers
The agreement itself: what it allocates, and where the risk sits.
From Brief to Concept: De-Risking Project Initiation and Conceptual Design
The approved return brief that every later scope question is measured against.
Ethics for Architects in Practice
Conduct, disclosure and the duties that sit behind a fee conversation.
Before you enrol.
Stop absorbing the extra work, in one self-paced hour.
$99, 60 minutes, certificate on completion.