Planning, designing and building any healthcare project requires you and your team to make many critical and often tough design decisions.

How do you make the right choice? The one most likely to produce the best health, safety, satisfaction and financial outcomes?

EDAC certification trains you to use a proven and globally-recognized, evidence-based design process – informed by research – to make better planning, design, construction and operational decisions.

It’s used by all the top architecture and design firms, and leading healthcare organizations, to inform decision-making for billions of dollars in healthcare facility projects.

Learn how to find and use credible research to make better design decisions. Get EDAC certified, add the EDAC appellation after your name, and then show them you know.

Today over 3,500 industry professionals – from healthcare, architecture, design, engineering, product and research organizations large and small, in over 20 countries around the globe – have distinguished themselves with the EDAC credential, advancing their skills and careers, their firm’s expertise, their project outcomes, and the industry as a whole.

See a list of organizations represented in the Class of ’26.

About EDAC Training & Certification

EDAC certification requires registration and successful completion of a 110-question multiple choice exam, taken remotely at your convenience or in-person at a testing center.

The fee for the exam is $395 (+$100 to test at international testing centers). Set of three digital study guides is $275. Four-session exam prep course is $120. Affiliate discounts apply.

Applicants have one year from the date of registration to prepare for and take the exam.

Maintaining your certification requires renewal every two years and completion of six approved Continuing Education Unit hours which can be obtained through CHD events and webinars, and other approved courses.

Certified individuals can distinguish themselves by adding the EDAC appellation to their professional titles and displaying the EDAC certified digital badge in their social and email profiles and signatures.

In addition, EDAC certified individuals: