Project Development & Documentation (PDD) ARE 5.0 Exam Guide (Architect Registration Examination): ARE 5.0 Overview, Exam Prep Tips, Guide, and Critic Paperback - 2025

A Practical Guide for the ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation (PDD) Division!

To become a licensed architect, you need to have a proper combination of education and/or experience, meet your Board of Architecture's special requirements, and pass the ARE exams.

This book provides an ARE 5.0 exam overview, suggested reference and resource links, exam prep and exam taking techniques, tips, and guides for the ARE 5.0 Project Development & Documentation (PDD) Division.

More specifically this book covers the following subjects:

- ARE 5.0, AXP, and education requirements

- ARE 5.0 exam content, format, and prep strategies

- ARE 5.0 credit model and the easiest way to pass ARE exams by taking only 5 ARE divisions

- Allocation of your time and scheduling

- Timing of review: the 3016 rule; memorization methods, tips, suggestions, and mnemonics

- Integration of Building Materials & Systems

- Construction Documentation

- Project Manual & Specifications

- Codes & Regulations

- Construction Cost Estimates

This book will help you pass the PPD division of the ARE 5 and become a licensed architect!

About the author

Gang Chen holds a master's degree from the School of Architecture, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a bachelor's degree from the School of Architecture, South China University of Technology. He has more than 30 years of professional experience. Many of the projects he was in charge of or participated in have been published extensively in Architecture, Architectural Record, The Los Angeles Times, The Orange County Register, and more. He has worked on a variety of unusual projects, including well-known, large-scale healthcare and hospitality projects with over one billion dollars in construction costs, award-winning school designs, highly-acclaimed urban design and streetscape projects, multifamily housing, high-end custom homes, and regional and neighborhood shopping centers.

Gang Chen is a LEED AP BD+C and a licensed architect in California. He is also the internationally acclaimed author of other fascinating books, including Building Construction, Planting Design Illustrated, the ARE Mock Exam series, the LEED Mock Exam series, and the LEED Exam Guides series, which includes one guidebook for each of the LEED exams. For more information, visit www.GreenExamEducation.com