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Your profession moves fast. Don’t wait until June.

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At the Institute, our live online webinars help you earn CPD throughout the year so you’re never rushing in June to meet your 20 points.

Not only that, they are designed for real-time interactions, as well as keeping you up to date on the latest trends and updates, while learning directly from leading practitioners.

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1pm Thurs 12 March | 1 Formal CPD point

Contract Administration Essentials: Effective Contract Management for Best Practice

What if a contract dispute never caught you off guard again?

Contracts are where architecture meets reality, and where things can go wrong fast. This CPD session gives you the essentials of contract administration, risk management, and claims handling so you can protect your projects, your clients, and yourself.

Member: $20 | Non-Member: $120

1pm Thurs 26 March | 1 Formal CPD point

Applications of AI Data in Architecture: Case Studies

Artificial intelligence is expanding architectural capability.

This session cuts through the hype with real building case studies showing how architects are using AI to sharpen design decisions, reduce embodied carbon, and improve outcomes across the project lifecycle.

Member: $79 | Non-Member: $149

1pm Thurs 26 March | 1 Formal CPD point

Applications of AI Data in Architecture: Case Studies

Artificial intelligence is expanding architectural capability.

This session cuts through the hype with real building case studies showing how architects are using AI to sharpen design decisions, reduce embodied carbon, and improve outcomes across the project lifecycle.

Member: $79 | Non-Member: $149

UPCOMING WEBINARS

1pm AEST Thurs 9 April | 1 Formal CPD point

Cloaked House and Sustainable Design Strategies

Cloaked House is a masterclass in doing more with less. This session unpacks the sustainable design strategies behind it: thermal comfort, embodied carbon, building retention, and material choices that last.

Led by award-winning architect Jennifer McMaster, this deep-dive connects design intention with measurable environmental outcomes.

Member: $20 | Non-Member: $120

1pm AEST Mon 13 April | 1 Formal CPD point

Design Choices | Shiel Street Community Housing

This CPD session will focus on design strategies employed for this award-winning project. More broadly, it intends to demonstrate how this as a case study carries lessons for other housing projects to deliver rational and resident-prioritised outcomes. This session will enable architects and designers to apply more informed strategies for medium density housing to their own practice.

Member: $79 | Non-Member: $149

Heritage Series 2026 | 8 Formal CPD | From 6 August

This series is aimed at demystifying the processes, terminology, documentation and requirements associated with heritage projects, better equipping architects to deliver services that meet the needs of their clients and provide the right advice at the right time. Members: $435 | Non-members: $870

Indigenous Engagement Foundations | Part 1: Designing with Country from Project Inception | 18 August

Explore how Design with Country can be embedded from the earliest stages of project planning, briefing and procurement. Members: $20 | Non-members: $120

Design Choices | Shadow House: Enhancing Through Adaption not Addition | 26 August

Explore how to design houses with clarity, depth and emotional resonance, and how those qualities can contribute to award-winning residential design. Members: $79 | Non-members: $120

Indigenous Engagement Foundations | Part 2: Delivering Design with Country Through Project Delivery | 1 Formal CPD | 13 October

Explore how Design with Country was embedded throughout design development and delivery, with First Nations collaboration creating lasting cultural outcomes. Members: $20 | Non-members: $120

Designing Belonging in Everyday Housing | 1 Formal CPD | 25 August

This CPD session introduces a design-led framework for rethinking housing beyond the traditional private/shared binary. Focusing on belonging in everyday living, the session explores how spatial relationships shape behaviour, perception, and patterns of use. Members: $79 | Non-members: $149

Business School of Architecture | Financial Toolkit | 1 Formal CPD | 30 July

Struggling with fees and profitability? Learn how to price fees confidently, improve profitability, and make smarter business decisions with our speaker Ross Donaldson, FRAIA National President Elect. Members: $20 | Non-members: $120

Project Circle | Transforming Architectural Practice for a Regenerative Future | 1 Formal CPD | 28 July

Project Circle introduces a regenerative design framework exploring bio-based materials, practical case studies, and innovative approaches to reshape architecture beyond carbon. Members: $79 | Non-members: $149

AI in Architecture | 5 Formal CPD series

Don't be the one that falls behind. This series cuts through the noise show architects exactly how AI will impact day-to-day practice, projects delivery and future workflow. Members: $295 | Non-members: $495

Designing for Tomorrow's Climate | 10 September

Interpret climate analysis outputs to understand how changing climatic conditions may affect heating/ cooling demand and occupant thermal comfort. Members: $20 | Non-members: $120

Consultants as Partners: Enhancing Architectural Practice | 4 formal cpd

Gain actionable strategies to reduce project risk, improve coordination, enhance wellbeing outcomes and deliver smarter, more resilient spaces that meet evolving client and community expectations. Members: $295 | Non-members: $495

Design Choices: Northern Memorial Park Depot | 1 Formal CPD | 3 June

Explore how to embed sustainability into every stage of architectural practice - from aligning client values and project goals at inception, to balancing environmental performance, wellbeing, cost and risk throughout design development and delivery. Members: $79 | Non-members: $149

Communicating the Value of Architecture to Clients | 1 Formal CPD | 2 July

This session will explore practical copywriting techniques, how to define your practice’s unique point of difference, craft stronger project descriptions and develop media pitches that support long-term brand building and client engagement. Members: $20 | Non-members: $120

Leadership in Practice | 5 Formal CPD Series

Are you feeling burnt out from juggling design, client demands, and finances? Gain clearer control of the business side of architecture with this 5-part webinar series, designed specifically for architects. Member: $295 | Non-member: $495

Design Choices | The Stopover: Reimagining of Disused Grain | 16 September

Identify early opportunities to reuse and integrate fewer standard materials, and how to integrate these materials with more economic conventional materials. Members: $79 | Non-members: $120

Design Choices: Melbourne Place | 1 Formal CPD | 27 May

How do you design a hotel that breaks away from global brands? Explore the making of Melbourne Place with Principal Patrick Kennedy (Kennedy Nolan) and learn how one integrated design process shaped every detail - from concept to construction. Members: $79 | Non-members: $149

NCC 2025 Update | 1 Formal CPD | 13 May

Stay up to date with the main changes to the National Construction Code with NCC 2025 – including updates intending to improve safety performance and usability across the built environment. Members: $79 | Non-members: $120

Not sure where to start?

Your situation. Your starting point. 

Different roles carry different risks and different professional priorities. Start with what’s most relevant to where you’re practising right now. 

Sole Practitioner

Start with Compliance 

You carry the full weight of PI exposure. NCC 2022 compliance documentation is your first priority before any other CPD this year.

Risk & compliance course

Mid-career, employed  

Start with AI & Workflow 

Career progression in 2025 means being ahead of the technology shift. The AI module is one afternoon, and the feedback from 235 practitioners is consistent. 

Future-ready practice courses

Practice Director 

Start with Risk & Contracts 

Your practice liability runs deeper than your specifications. Contract administration and PI exposure are the two CPD areas with the most direct commercial consequence.

Risk & Contracts courses

Emerging Architect

Start with the Essentials
The NCC Update Series and the First Nations Crash Course cover your two most immediate professional obligations, and both are on-demand.
 

Start with the essentials

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NCC 2022 Update series | 8 Formal CPD Points

The go-to starting point for compliance documentation. One of the most consistently selected series in the catalogue over the years, for good reason: regulatory change doesn’t wait for convenient timing. Member: $350 Non-Member: $530

Heritage Series 2025 | 8 Formal CPD Points

Sustainability, compliance, inclusivity and climate resilience in heritage contexts. Practical, confidence-building skills for delivering projects that balance conservation with current performance standards and best practice decision making. Members: $350 Non-Member: $700

First Nations Competency Foundations | 8 Formal CPD Points

Understand the intentions and professional expectations embodied in the NSCA 2021 standards relating to First Nations Member: $399 Non-Member: $599

Meeting Higher BASIX Standards | 2 Formal CPD Points

Articulate how improved energy efficiency promotes better environmental outcomes and provides long term financial savings for the homeowner. Member: $99 Non-Member: $149

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Members save an average of $120 per course across the catalogue. If you complete five courses a year, membership pays for itself in savings  before the advocacy, events, and practice resources that come with it. 

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