Promoting your registered status

By highlighting your registered status you set yourself apart from unregulated competitors and provide reassurance of your credentials to clients.

 

Tell your clients what your registration means

Let your clients know you are a regulated professional and the benefits this brings to them.
Registration means:

  • you are appropriately qualified to carry out the work;
  • you practise in line with the Architects Code, which helps the profession keep to the highest standards; and
  • you are appropriately insured.

Your clients can also download a form called ‘Meeting with your architect’, which guides them through some key areas for discussion when you first meet. You may want to tell them about this when you make your initial appointment.

Meeting with your architect

Share your ARB registration number
00000000X

This is the unique number we give you when you first join the Architects Register. It will never change, even if you leave and rejoin the Register.

It is helpful to record this number on any official documents when you deal with clients, so that they can quickly confirm you are registered by searching the Architects Register for free.

Architects Register

Display your registration certificate

Every architect receives an ARB registration certificate when they first join the Register and then every year when they pay their annual retention fee.  We advise you to display your current certificate in your practice.

Request a certificate

Use our Title Protection Toolkit

We have put together six simple ways to let clients know you are regulated and help them spot those who aren’t. With our Title Protection Toolkit, you can:

  • link to your online Register entry;
  • use the ARB logo;
  • share infographics;
  • give clients a leaflet on title protection;
  • use case studies; and
  • tell us about your ideas.
Toolkit

Keep your Register details up to date

Many visitors to the online Register are members of the public looking for an architect. If they can’t see how to contact you, they will look for someone who they can contact easily, and you may have lost a valuable business opportunity. Why not make sure that it’s you they approach by adding up-to-date contact details to your Register entry webpage?

You can amend your details online through Registrants Services.

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