Defining Sustainability: Materials, Systems and Carbon Impacts
This CPD presentation explores how sustainability considerations can be integrated into building design from the earliest project stages, with a focus on the relative importance of embodied environmental impacts. Participants will learn how to apply principles from building, environmental and social sciences to inform conceptual design decisions, assess key sustainability factors across a project’s lifecycle, and select materials, finishes and systems that optimise performance, environmental outcomes.
– Fairview
Adaptive Surface Renewal: Reducing Construction Waste Through External Resurfacing & Overlay Design
Adaptive Surface Renewal explores how resurfacing and overlay design can extend the life of existing infrastructure while reducing demolition, landfill waste, and embodied carbon. The CPD examines innovative techniques that improve sustainability, minimise disruption, and deliver durable, cost-effective outcomes without full reconstruction.
– StoneSet Permeable Paving
Essential Guide for Designing Commercial Kitchens & Bars
This course will provide architects with the tools to design commercial kitchens and bars that meet industry standards and evolving demands. Covering Australian standards, planning, design principles, sustainability practices, equipment selection, current trends, and best practices. Participants will learn to create functional, safe, and adaptable kitchen designs.
-Caterlink
Certified Healthy Building Professional
A professional education program for architects and building professionals focused on health risk in the built environment. The course addresses exposure pathways, material health, moisture, indoor air quality, and building biology principles to support informed design, specification, and construction decisions in real projects.
– Healthy Home Expert
Innovative PVC Woven Flooring Design
Learn how woven vinyl flooring enhances durability, aesthetics, and sustainability in commercial projects. Explore fire compliance (AS ISO 9239.1-2003), 3D design tools, and material benefits like slip resistance and acoustic performance. Gain CPD points while optimizing flooring solutions for functionality, longevity, and design versatility.
-Dickson
Embodied Carbon: How to identify and minimise the impact of materials without compromising system performance
How to identify and minimise the environmental impact of building materials such as plasterboard and insulation without compromising building system performance. Covers the importance of reducing embodied carbon alongside operational carbon; the role of material selection in reducing embodied carbon, and the role of life cycle analysis in providing specifiers with the information needed to accurately assess products during selection.
-Knauf
Reducing Operational Carbon – Using window and door specification to build for efficiency
In this course, architects will learn about innovations in windows and doors systems in order to design, build, and construct homes that meet the new 7-star energy-efficiency provisions. The course will cover vital elements such as climate zones, U Values ad solar heat gain coefficients, enabling architects to specify the right windows and doors to maximise natural light and the views.
-AWS
Specifying Sustainable Floorcoverings
When selecting flooring, health and sustainability are front of mind. That’s why Tarkett doesn’t just offer beautiful, high-quality, sustainable flooring solutions, but also complete piece of mind. This Sustainability CPD will examine what ‘sustainable’ means in the context of flooring, the importance of maintenance, and how to utilise third party building labels and some key credentials to assist in the specification of sustainable flooring products.
-Tarkett
Designing Out Carbon
‘Designing Out Carbon’ delves into industry initiatives addressing carbon reduction, spotlighting a collaboration’s creation of an embodied carbon Roadmap for architects, NABERS’ work on a carbon standard, and tools for emission calculation.
-NCASC & Brickworks
Electrifying Architects
‘Electrifying Architects’ focuses on the crucial role of electrification in architecture for achieving a zero-carbon future, featuring discussions on emerging energy transition technologies, opportunities for architects, the importance of measurement in supporting sectoral transition, and scaling electrification for equitable energy access, all while emphasizing the event’s carbon-offset initiatives and live streaming for national audiences.
-NCASC & Brickworks