UCAS Employability profiles: Architecture

Reflect upon and relate their ideas to a design and to the work of others

Cognitive skills	Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Creativity, achievement orientation, initiative, adaptability/flexibility	Technical ability
Business awareness	Practical elements

Ability to produce designs that demonstrate the integrative relationship of structure, building materials and constructional elements

Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail	Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Decisiveness	Technical ability
Business awareness	Practical elements Professional expertise

Produce designs that demonstrate an understanding of the integrative relationship between climate, service systems and energy supply

Cognitive skills Analysis, judgement, attention to detail	Generic competencies
Personal capabilities	Technical ability
Business awareness	Practical elements Professional expertise

Exercise informed and reflective judgement in the development of sustainable design

Cognitive skills Judgement, attention to detail	Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Creativity, decisiveness	Technical ability
Business awareness	Practical elements

Understand the conventions of architectural representation

Cognitive skills	Generic competencies
Personal capabilities	Technical ability
Business awareness	Practical elements Professional expertise

Use a range of visual, written and verbal techniques in order to communicate architectural designs and ideas

Cognitive skills	Generic competencies Written communication, listening, questioning
Personal capabilities Organisational sensitivity	Technical ability Technical knowledge, technical ability
Business awareness Organisational understanding	Practical elements Professional expertise