Use this material to examine your own work. Confirm current requirements, forms and dates with IStructE before applying.
Signing the portfolio checklist confirms compliance with IStructE's requirements for layout and the range of evidence. Read the declaration before signing.
Treat it as the last gate, and use it as the first
The checklist works best used twice.
Early, as a specification. Read it before you assemble anything and let it shape the structure: it tells you what the Institution considers a compliant portfolio, which is more useful before you have built one than after.
At the end, as a gate. Go through it item by item against the finished PDF, and fix what fails rather than signing optimistically. The declaration is yours, and the consequence of a non-compliant portfolio is not a polite request to resubmit: the guidance notes that candidates who submit forms and portfolios that do not comply may not proceed, and that non-compliance reduces the likelihood of success.
Signing
You are signing two things across the submission as a whole: that the portfolio complies with the requirements, and (in the report forms) that the evidence submitted in the portfolio of work is your own. Both are declarations about your conduct, not about your competence, and both sit squarely inside the Code of Conduct.
If any part of the portfolio is not your own work, the answer is to take it out, not to explain it in the interview.
Before you sign: a working check, not the official one
the Forum’s own working list, ticked locally in this browser. It does not replace the Institution's checklist and signing it here commits you to nothing.
Official sources
Selected publisher pages were rechecked in September 2026. Other source records were last checked in July 2026. Open the latest official document before relying on a requirement.