Harry Barns and Peter Oble own an architectural firm employing twenty-five registered architects. One strategy they intend to use to retain employees is to offer resources available at their firm to fulfill New Mexico's requirements for continuing education.
Their first choice of action is to take on a project for their church. The church wishes to undertake a major expansion through an addition to its present building. The addition is for the primary purpose of increasing the chapel area. The plans for this project were drawn up by a New Mexico architect, Mr. Honny, who unexpectedly passed away before any construction could begin.
Barns and Oble decide to do the project pro-bono as a community service in order to enhance their firm's reputation and to receive continuing education contact hours. They obtain the plans for the project from the church. In order for both Barns and Oble to receive credit for the project they decide that each shall seal a part of the plans. They then submit the plans for permitting.
The next step they take to complete their continuing education requirements is to have one of the firm's architects enroll in a local community college and take a course on computer-generated accounting. The architect takes the course and receives an "A" for his efforts. Barns and Oble then have the architect tell the other architects employed by the firm all about computer-generated accounting at a staff meeting set up for this expressed purpose. All the architects who have taken part in this meeting then claim credit for contact hours for the time spent in the meeting.
And, finally, Barns and Oble decide they will spend two weeks in Europe touring architecturally significant buildings. They concentrate primarily on Italy and France, taking many pictures of buildings and the surrounding environs to substantiate the purpose of their trip. While in Paris they also attend a one-evening seminar on medieval architecture presented by a local architectural college.
Upon their return they host a party for their firm and show slides of their trip. They encourage the firm's architects to claim contact hours for the slide presentation for continuing education credit.
Their first choice of action is to take on a project for their church. The church wishes to undertake a major expansion through an addition to its present building. The addition is for the primary purpose of increasing the chapel area. The plans for this project were drawn up by a New Mexico architect, Mr. Honny, who unexpectedly passed away before any construction could begin.
Barns and Oble decide to do the project pro-bono as a community service in order to enhance their firm's reputation and to receive continuing education contact hours. They obtain the plans for the project from the church. In order for both Barns and Oble to receive credit for the project they decide that each shall seal a part of the plans. They then submit the plans for permitting.
The next step they take to complete their continuing education requirements is to have one of the firm's architects enroll in a local community college and take a course on computer-generated accounting. The architect takes the course and receives an "A" for his efforts. Barns and Oble then have the architect tell the other architects employed by the firm all about computer-generated accounting at a staff meeting set up for this expressed purpose. All the architects who have taken part in this meeting then claim credit for contact hours for the time spent in the meeting.
And, finally, Barns and Oble decide they will spend two weeks in Europe touring architecturally significant buildings. They concentrate primarily on Italy and France, taking many pictures of buildings and the surrounding environs to substantiate the purpose of their trip. While in Paris they also attend a one-evening seminar on medieval architecture presented by a local architectural college.
Upon their return they host a party for their firm and show slides of their trip. They encourage the firm's architects to claim contact hours for the slide presentation for continuing education credit.