Publications in Progress

Fee Scales

The ACA is planning to issue an update to the traditional Scale Fee chart to provide a simple and realistic benchmark for percentage fees and to provide much needed guidance for Clients.

The starting point is how many hours are actually consumed in a practice providing a proper service in relation to the size of the job. As the ACA could never be considered a monopoly, there cannot be any government objections to this as mooted to the RIBA version. In practice, the ACA feels that a recommended fee scale can be extremely useful because it is rarely clear at the beginning of a project, just how much work may be needed over the 2, 3 or more years it often takes to realize a building, particularly for new or inexperienced architects. Clients will naturally try to underestimate the effort which may ultimately be involved whilst good architects investigate more aspects of a building which inevitably takes more time. Quality requires time and resources.

The purpose of this survey is to assess the time that a good service has actually taken real architects in the past decade and from this try to prepare a contemporary recommended fee scale to reflect contemporary staff wages with standard overheads and profit margins. Please complete the attached spreadsheet below with projects since 2000 which you feel took a reasonable amount of time to give a good professional result so that we have a reliable database on which to assess fees.

Survey

Pricing Under TPC2005

In progress, for launch October 2011

PPC Scottish Suite

In progress, for launch 2011

SPC2000 Short Form, STPC2005, Guide to TPC and STPC Contracts

Published October 2010.

ACA SFA 2010 Editions.

2010 Edition England published August 2010.

2010 Edition Scotland  - to be published 2011.

 

PPC International and SPC International

Published 3 October 2007

Introduction to Pricing under PPC2000:

published 26 June 2008

ACA SFA/08

New architect appointment document (based on SFA92)  - published September 2008

New amended 2008 versions of PPC2000, SPC2000 and TPC2005 - published October 2008