TRC Delhi

The Training and Research Centre (TRC), Delhi, established by the Council of Architecture on 19 February 2026, is a centre of excellence dedicated to advancing architectural education, research, professional development, and policy engagement in India.

Building upon the legacy of the COA Training and Research Centre, Pune, TRC Delhi serves as a platform for fostering innovation, strengthening academia–industry collaboration, and supporting evidence-based policy initiatives. Aligned with the vision of Viksit Bharat 2047, the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, and the quality-driven framework of the Quality Council of India (QCI), the centre aims to nurture future-ready, socially responsible, and globally competent architects.

Through research, faculty development, professional training, workshops, and collaborative initiatives, TRC Delhi promotes excellence in architectural education and practice. With a focus on sustainable development, emerging technologies, indigenous knowledge systems, and human-centred design, the centre serves as a catalyst for innovation and continuous learning across the architectural fraternity.

Activities of COA-TRC

COA-TRC supports architects/academician/students to turn their ideas and concepts into successful competitive thoughts and provides an environment to develop essential management skills and systems that may enable architects/academician/students to grow as business leaders of tomorrow. COA-TRC thus facilitates the provision of Business Incubators for the field of architecture through its establishments, where experts from various different fields perform the function of Mentors for the Startup's incubated.

About COA-TRC

The Government of India had initiated two major campaigns, namely the Startup India initiative, and the National Mission for Skill Development. Whereas the Startup India initiative aims to boost the entrepreneurship environment in the country and to encourage startups with jobs creation, the National Mission for Skill Development has been developed to create convergence across sectors and State in terms of skill training activities.

Keeping in view these recent initiatives by the Government of India, the Council of Architecture has now decided to open up its academic and research wing through the establishment of Council of Architecture Training and Research Centres (COA-TRC) at five zones in India, with Delhi as one of its Centre.

The purpose of this COA-TRC is to nurture a culture of entrepreneurship in the creative minds of young Architects and designers, so that their ideas metamorphose into newer the niftier products or services capable of being utilized commercially.