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
Roof Plant Platforms: Compliance, Materials & Specification
This CPD course offers practical guidance to help you specify roof plant platforms with confidence.
You’ll learn:
– Common design issues and how to address them
– The differences between platform types and materials
– How Australian standards apply to plant platforms
– Hart Australia
Spray-Applied Membranes in Modern Construction
This CPD explores the design, compliance and performance of spray-applied waterproofing membranes in external applications. Participants will gain practical insights into NCC 2022 and AS4654 requirements, detailing complex junctions, sustainability benefits, and best practice strategies to support durable, compliant and high-performing waterproofing systems.
– Envirosystems
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
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
Warm Roof
This course explores the purpose of insulating roofs and the principles behind warm roof and cold roof applications. We dive into the various substrates, membranes and roof coverings used in warm roof constructions, and the appropriate Total R-value requirements.
-Kingspan
Wet Area Waterproofing
This CPD will explain the importance of structural design considerations and potential risks of wet area waterproofing in design and construction. You will learn how to identify the correct wet area waterproofing design response through appropriate material selection and specification.
– Dulux / Fosroc
Joint Sealant Design
In this CPD you will learn about the importance of structural design considerations, appropriate material selection, specification considerations, application requirements and potential risks, for joint sealant design in planning, development and construction.
– Dulux / Fosroc
Zinc – Roofing and Cladding
Zinc, as a naturally occurring ‘green’, non-combustible, architectural metal can be used on the facades and rooftops of residential, commercial and high-rise buildings. Learn about zinc in terms of: its properties, its material characteristics, the various roofing and facade systems and lay-up requirements, and its use with other building and construction materials.
– Inspire Architectural