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

Saving Lives With Compartmentation

Saving Lives with Compartmentation CPD explores the principles of heat transfer and fire spread, emphasising the critical role of fire compartmentation. It also covers Fire Resistance Levels (FRLs) and compliance pathways within the NCC for building classification and compartmentation design.
-Speedpanel

Maximising Building Performance: The Essential Role of Insulation in IEQ: Introduction to Insulation

This course provides architects with fundamental knowledge about the critical relationship between Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) and insulation. It explores how insulation influences and enhances IEQ, focusing on the essential factors that contribute to creating healthier indoor environments. Participants will gain insights into the key aspects of insulation, including different categories, relevant standards, and applications, as well as other relevant building performance benefits. This CPD session equips architects with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions when specifying insulation, ensuring optimal design outcomes for occupant wellbeing and comfort.
-Fletcher Insulation

Structural Steel Fire Protection

Understanding passive fire protection through the use of intumescent paints. An overview for engineers and architects.
-AkzoNobel

Fireplace types and functionality

In this comprehensive presentation on fireplace types, we explore not only the diverse range of options available but also the crucial design considerations that underpin their functionality and aesthetic appeal. From traditional wood-burning fireplaces to modern gas or electric variants, each type offers unique advantages and challenges that need to be carefully assessed.
-Jetmaster Fireplaces Australia

Fire Hazard Properties for Flooring and Wall

This free CPD explains the NCC building classification and identifies fire testing methods for floor and wall materials so you can specify materials to meet fire hazard requirements.
-Armstrong Flooring

Designing for Durability

This course delves into timber durability by explaining concepts, listing limitations for timber, concrete, and steel, exploring performance variations in timber, and defining risk factors for timber durability in construction.
– WoodSolutions

Weatherproofing Compliance

This presentation will explore weatherproofing defects, building design and compliance with the 2022 NCC. The learning outcomes include:
• Recognise the impact of weatherproofing and the importance of compliance
• Recognise the NCC requirements for weatherproofing
• Explain the process of the AS4284 Testing
• Interpret and apply the AS4284 Test Results
• Explain how to design a compliant wall system for an actual project
– Fairview

Ventilated Facades and Fibre Cement Materials

Gain a deeper understanding into the history and application of fibre cement facade materials with EQUITONE’s CPD presentation. This course delves into the history of fibre cement and uncovers the latest innovations in ventilated facade systems. We outline the different textures, colours and expressive surfaces and also look at the numerous approaches to internal and external design applications through a presentation of completed projects in Australia.
– Equitone

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