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Effective October 19, 2008, we no longer offer the CCRE
Read about IDEX, our new single certification exam
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Q: Do I have to take the NCIDQ first before I can take the CCRE?
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A: No, the CCRE can be taken anytime by anyone. There are no prequisites requiring
education or experience and you can even take it as a student while you are still in school and in the studying mode.
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Q: Does passing the NCIDQ exam qualify me to be a member of CCIDC?
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To be Certified by CCIDC you must pass the California Codes and Regulations Examination (CCRE) and pass one of three exams (the NCIDQ being one of them). Candidates for CCIDC Certification are also required to demonstrate the required education and experience which can be found on our Web site here.
CCIDC is not a membership organization. It is a Board to oversee the Certification program for interior designers in California. "Certified Interior Designer" is the only legally recognized
title for interior designers in this state.
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Q: I took the Building & Barrier Free Exam many years ago to became
Certified by CCIDC. Does this mean I passed the NCIDQ?
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It does not mean you passed the full NCIDQ examination. You only passed one part of what was (back then) a six part examination. This was offered as a means to become a "Certified Interior Designer" in California under a grandparenting clause which expired in 1994.
All "Certified Interior Designers" are currently required to:
- Pass the California Codes and Regulations Examination (CCRE) and
- Pass the CQRID exam or
- Pass the full NCIDQ examination (which is now a three part exam) or
- Pass the NKBA exam.
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Q. I heard that the 2007 edition of CBC-IBC would be effective January
2008. Regarding the CCRE for April, 2008, are questions based on the current (2001) CBC-UBC or new edition?
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Yes, the new CBC/IBC will be effective by law on January 1, 2008, however with respect to the CCRE we will continue to use the existing examinations which are based upon the 1997 UBC and the 1998 CBC throughout the year (2008) until a CCIDC task force along with the testing agency has had the opportunity to review the new codes and rewrite the hundreds of item bank questions used in the test based upon the new codes. This is a very time consuming and costly process and a new exam based upon the new codes probably won't be available until April 2009.
By then, interior designers in the state should be somewhat familiar with the new codes and able to be tested on them. Sidenote: Most California building departments and building officials won't
adopt the new code until later in the year, probably at least 6 months or so, unless they adopt it "as is" without local amendments. A few will, but most will take their time to digest it,
train their personnel and they then each have to have their city council or county board of supervisors adopt it as well. There is also a lot of costs involved in this whole process which they have to
have approved budgets for. We share all this so Certified Interior Designers understand that just because the state adopts a building code, local authorities will have to go through a similar process
too, which takes time.
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