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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

What is Passive Fire?

What is Passive Fire? demystifies one of the most critical aspects of building safety. Discover how fire compartmentation works, how to interpret Fire Resistance Levels (FRLs), navigate AS 1530.4 and AS 4072.1, and confidently select compliant firestopping systems. Packed with real fire test footage, industry examples, and practical applications, this session equips professionals with the knowledge to reduce compliance risk, improve building performance, and confidently navigate NCC compliance pathways for passive fire protection.
– Boss Passive Fire

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

Designing Neuro-inclusive Environments

Designing for Neuro‑Inclusive Environments is a CPD exploring how flooring and interior design influence sensory experience, comfort, and usability. Grounded in Australian standards and research, it supports architects and designers to create inclusive, legible environments across commercial sectors, with practical guidance on visual comfort, acoustics, safety, and wayfinding.
– Karndean

Essential Guide for Designing Commercial Kitchens & Bars

This course will provide architects with the tools to design commercial kitchens and bars that meet industry standards and evolving demands. Covering Australian standards, planning, design principles, sustainability practices, equipment selection, current trends, and best practices. Participants will learn to create functional, safe, and adaptable kitchen designs.
-Caterlink

Designing Healthier Homes | Rethink the Power of Daylight

This CPD explores how daylight influences human health, wellbeing, and indoor environmental quality, and outlines Australia’s regulatory requirements for natural light and illuminance. Participants learn key design principles that shape daylight performance and how to evaluate daylight using simple metrics and pre‑construction assessment tools to support evidence‑based residential design.

-Velux

Designing High-Performing Building Envelopes with Insulated Panels

Step into the world of Insulated Panels with this educational CPD that looks at how panels meet strict building codes and regulatory requirements while achieving sustainability standards.
– Kingspan

From Dew Point to Design Solutions: Designing for Condensation Risk

Condensation is a common but often overlooked risk in building envelopes, leading to mould growth and costly issues in new buildings when not properly addressed. This CPD explains how to measure, monitor, and prevent condensation to protect building performance and longevity.
– Kingspan

Beyond the Spark: Designing for Fire Safety with Insulated Panels

Insulated panel systems offer an efficient, high-performance solution for modern construction, combining strong thermal performance, long spans, and fast installation. This CPD focuses on how these systems can be designed to meet NCC fire safety requirements by outlining key risks, relevant standards, and compliant solutions for architects, even in higher-risk applications.
– Kingspan

Specifying Concrete Floor Coatings

The CPD discusses the need to identify the correct concrete floor treatment and coating design while taking into account structural design considerations and potential risks for concrete floor treatments and coatings in planning, development and construction. Covers the importance of material selection to meet coating design and application requirements.

– Dulux

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

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

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