Fundamentals of Polycarbonate Building Materials and Compliance Issues
Polycarbonate is a high-performance building material, but its successful application depends on a clear understanding of its properties, system performance, and regulatory requirements.
This course provides architects and building professionals with an introduction to polycarbonate as a building material, including product types, material behaviour, and key performance characteristics.
It also outlines relevant National Construction Code compliance pathways, alongside sustainability and lifecycle considerations, equipping participants to confidently specify and apply polycarbonate systems for compliant, durable, and high-performing architectural outcomes.
– Danpal
Designing For the Australian Climate Using Multicell Polycarbonate
Designing for Australia’s harsh and varied climate requires more than material selection—it demands an understanding of how materials perform under real environmental conditions.
This CPD provides architects and building professionals with insight into how multicell polycarbonate can be effectively specified and detailed to respond to climate, improve thermal performance, manage UV exposure, and enhance daylighting.
It equips participants with the knowledge to design resilient, energy-efficient, and compliant buildings by addressing key factors such as orientation, thermal movement, moisture control, and total system performance.
– Danpal
Enhancing Design with Performance Louvres
This seminar explores key louvre performance criteria including energy efficiency, rain defence, and pressure drop, supported by recent case studies. It also outlines updates to AS4740 developed with Standards Australia, helping architects and specifiers better compare natural ventilators and apply enhanced performance data to projects.
-Louvreclad
Safety in Design
Build effective Safety in Design (SiD) capability. Receive practical tips on SiD legal duties and roles, risk management, change verifications, and communicating residual risk for downstream. Win work with a competitive edge.
—User Experience (UX)
—Brand & reputation
—Legal compliance
—Harm reduction
—Costs savings
-FEFO Consulting
Large Format Porcelain Slabs
Enhance your knowledge with this Porcelanosa CPD on Large Format Slabs. Explore their versatility, durability, installation, techniques, design and maintenance. Perfect for professionals aiming to deepen their knowledge and apply innovative, high-performance surfaces in architectural and interior projects.
-Porcelanosa
Understanding Metal Roofing and Cladding
Gain a clear understanding of how Steel, Aluminium, Zinc, and Copper perform across a wide range of architectural applications – helping you specify with confidence. This CPD session explores the fundamentals of metal cladding and roofing, from historic origins to modern innovations. Discover how to choose the right material.
-Inspire Architectural
Facades of the Future: Looking Beyond Compliance, Prioritising Best Practices and Sustainable Design
In this CPD presentation, we look at the state of the façade market – where we have come from and where we are today. We explore Australian and global fire testing methods, their role in evaluating façade designs and systems, and discuss how looking beyond compliance is critical when designing safe buildings and futureproofing your specifications. With the increase of extreme weather conditions and climate change, we also investigate weatherability performance testing methods for common weather events such as hailstorms and severe wind.
-Network Architectural
Surface intelligence: Evaluating materials for flooring and wall cladding applications.
Discover comprehensive, customised, and sustainable solutions for flooring and wall cladding surfaces that balance performances with environmental responsibility.
-Cosentino
Sustainable Floor, Steel and Façade Coatings
This course is designed to provide information on the most effective and proven protective coating systems with an emphasis on sustainability. The course will teach specifiers to how to select the most appropriate coating system for a range on typical applications in the construction industry.
-A&I Coatings
The Link Between Building Facades and Sustainability
EQUITONE invites architects, designers, and building professionals to join our latest CPD presentation on sustainability in the building industry. This comprehensive session is designed to provide you with the knowledge and insights necessary to integrate sustainable practices and materials into your projects.
-Equitone