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

Indoor Air Quality IAQ for Healthy Buildings

This course provides architects important knowledge about the benefits of improving indoor air quality to design buildings with their occupants’ wellbeing in mind. This CPD will cover the numerous sources of indoor pollution with the latest international data and research and what solutions are available to plan, design and specifying materials that are ecofriendly and sustainable for greener buildings.
-Wellness Surfaces

Understanding Wood-look Powder Coatings for Aluminium Battens & Claddings

Alteria’s presentation outlines the main wood-look powder coating technologies and processes used for aluminium extrusions to help you understand the performance, durability, fire ratings and sustainability benefits to help you when specifying wood-look battens and claddings.
-Alteria

How to Document Rigid Insulation

Learn how to document various types of insulation to achieve compliant building envelopes, along with gaining a greater understanding of the methodologies of condensation management and breathable membranes.
-Kingspan

Insulation 101: The Science Behind Thermal Insulation

Learn about the difference between Total R-values and Material R-values, along with gaining a greater understanding of the thermal bridging and the different types of insulation.
-Kingspan

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

Engineered Timber Buildings – The Architect’s Perspective

This course covers identifying engineered timber products in Australia, selecting the right one for specific purposes, addressing structural and safety considerations, and understanding the architect’s role in prefab construction.
– WoodSolutions

Sydney Water Building Plan Approval Processes – In Scope & Out of Scope

Comprehensive and free presentation to provide you with a thorough understanding of Sydney Water requirements for building adjacent to and over their assets, standard assets (in scope) and more complex assets (out of scope). Essential information for all architects, as part of your planning stage, and in the construction phase.
– MGP Building & Infrastructure Services

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