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
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
Designing with Aluminium: Innovations, Challenges and Performance-Driven Solutions.

This CPD explores aluminium façade innovation through material performance, solar shading, and engineered façade solutions. Learn how to optimise aluminium systems for durability, sustainability, wind performance, and constructability, while balancing design intent with engineering, compliance, and project-specific performance requirements.
-Louvreclad
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
Inclusive Design: Designing for Dementia and Ageing

Inclusive design is crucial for addressing the needs of individuals with Dementia, a degenerative disease that impacts their lifestyles and causes both physical and mental limitations. This CPD will give you the tools to design by understanding the context, atmosphere, and sensorial elements that affect their wellbeing, enhancing their quality of life. Applying design principles to create Dementia-friendly environments can significantly improve safety, orientation, memory, comfort and behaviour, ultimately resulting in livable and suitable spaces for those affected by Dementia.
– Gerflor
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
Tile Fundamentals

Enhance your expertise with our in-depth workshop covering porcelain vs ceramic tiles, rectified vs non-rectified edges, P and R slip ratings, cutting-edge tile technology, China vs Europe manufacturing, and efflorescence prevention. Ideal for professionals looking to broaden their tile application knowledge in architectural and design spaces.
-Myaree Ceramics
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