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Experience: 2012 National Architecture Conference

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The 2012 National Architecture Conference: Experience offers an opportunity for architects to engage with a range of engaging and relevant topics, and can make a significant contribution to your CPD needs.
 
Informal CPD: All sessions provide informal CPD.
Formal CPD: Most sessions can provide formal CPD points- you need to complete a written report.
 
Formal Assessment Requirements

Formal assessment will take the form of a written report about the session attended. This means that you can choose to undertake any session as formal CPD according to your own requirements and interests.
 
How to make a submission:
1. Go to the CPD Submissions page.
2. Login to Continuum. *Make sure you login to Continuum with the same e-mail you used for conference registration*
3. Click on Submit an Answer
4. Click on the title of each session to access the submission box.
5. For each session, you must submit a report of approximately 400 words.
 
Note:
 
If you attended the conference and are not a member of the Institute or do not have a non-member account to log into Continuum with and access the CPD submissions page, please click here to register for a free non-member Continuum account and email your account details to continuum@architecture.com.au so that we may add you into the CPD submissions database.
 

For enquiries about CPD submission write to: continuum@architecture.com.au or contact Knowledge Services on 03 8620 3877.

For more information about CPD policies and requirements click here.

*Some registration boards limit the amount of points they will recognise for consecutive hours. For auditing purposes each session may be considered a single activity or this may apply to the conference as a whole. Please check your local board policy for details.

 Time Session Type
Title Presenter(s) Informal Points
Formal Points
Thurs 10 May
 
     
9:00-17:00 Tour Brisbane Architectural Tours    3.0  -
Fri 11 May
         
9:00-10:50
Keynote
Creative Dir. "Why Experience" + Keynote
Paul Finch
 2.02.5
11:10-13:00
Keynote   Rachel Neeson & Koji Tsutsui  2.0 2.5
14:00-15:50
Keynote   Richard Kirk & Kathryn Findlay  2.0 2.5
16:20-17:45 Keynote   Wang Shu  1.5
2.0
20:20- Late
Pechu Kucha
various- see program
   2.0 -
Sat 12 May
         
09:00-10:50 Keynote
  Luis Feduchi & Anu Mathur/ Dilip da Cuhna
 2.0
2.5
11:20-12:40 Keynote
  Peter Rich  1.5 2.0
13:40-15:40
Keynote
  Kevin Carmody & Inaki Abalos/ Renate Sentkiewicz  2.0 2.5
16:10-18:00 Keynote
 

Kjetil Thorsen

 2.0 2.5
19.00- Late
Exhibition
Architectural Exhibitions
   2.0
 -
Sun 13 May
         
09:00-17:00
Tour
Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast Architectural Tours
   2.0  

 

WoodSolutions

 

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WoodSolutions have launched their new online wood products database, created specifically for the Australian market; www.woodsolutions.com.au

Responding to market needs identified by research, this new site is designed to provide architects, engineers and other building professionals with information and technical resources about using wood and wood products.

Australia’s most authoritative source of wood-related information, WoodSolutions™ is a non-proprietary database that includes:

•    species information
•    technical design guides
•    case studies
•    performance data
•    fixings and finishes
•    Standards and Codes, and much more.

To find out more about WoodSolutions and the upcoming WoodSolutions 2011 Seminar, please go to our Sponsor Resources Page.

 

Architecture Australia

 
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Selected articles in Architecture Australia may be eligible for Institute CPD Points. Answer questions on Continuum to receive your points.

For the questions for "Women In Architecture", Architecture Australia July/August 2011, click here. To view the article "Women In Architecture" click here. AACA Competency: Practice Management.

For the questions for "Post Post Occupancy", Architecture Australia September 2011, click here. To view the article "Post Post Occupancy" click here. AACA Competency: Design.

Email your answers to continuum@architecture.com.au

BuildingGreen

 

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BuildingGreen is an independent company committed to providing accurate, unbiased, and timely information designed to help building-industry professionals and policy makers improve the environmental performance, and reduce the adverse impacts, of buildings.

They offer both print and electronic resources to help you design and build construction projects from a whole-systems perspective and take an integrated design approach that minimizes ecological impact and maximizes economic performance.


Webcastof National Construction Code 2011 Information Seminars

 CV08 Graphic   The ABCB is proud to present a webcast on the 2011 National Construction Code (NCC) Information Seminars.

The webcast, which is based on the 2011 information seminars delivered in all capital cities by the ABCB, provides practitioners with an overview of relevant aspects of the consolidated code and how it will affect their work.

The webcast covers:
  • an introduction to the NCC and implications it will have for practitioners
  • an overview of changes to the BCA, Volumes One and Two
  • the new Plumbing Code of Australia (which represents Volume Three of the NCC Series).

The webcast can be accessed from the ABCB website.

 NATSPEC TECHnotes


NATSPEC have developed handy TECHnotes, which are brief summaries of a broad range of topics that are of interest to anyone working in the built environment. These TECHnotes are now available for download right here in Continuum from our dedicated NATSPEC page.

Updated: April 2011 amendments as well as all-new TECHnotes such as

Design 24: Water sensitve urban design (WSUD).

 

 

Webcast of Premises Standards Awareness Seminar 2010
Australian Human Rights Commission

The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) and Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) are proud to present a webcast on the Disability (Access to Premises - Buildings) Standards (Premises Standards).

The webcast, which is based on the 2010 awareness seminars delivered in all capital cities by the AHRC and ABCB, provides an overview of the ways in which the Premises Standards and corresponding changes to the Building Code of Australia will achieve consistency between building law and the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA).

The webcast covers:

  • the objectives behind the Premises Standards
  • who is responsible for complying with the Premises Standards
  • main features of the Premises Standards, including exceptions and concessions
  • areas of buildings and levels of access required.

Want to know more? You may also be interested in our Continuum course Access and Discrimination presented by Chris Porter, which provides an overview of the DDA and will earn you formal CPD points.

UrbanNous





 

UrbanNous provides access to digital multimedia focusing on urbanism. Urbanism is the study and development of cities, from the physical form of buildings, infrastructure and open space, to the culture politics and economy. The aim is to take theory and practice out of the box, with contributors explaining their projects and ideas, making these accessible and inspirational.
 

 

Past National Conferences

Natural Artifice: 2011 National Architecture Conference

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The 2011 National Architecture conference, 14th-16th of April brought together speakers from five continents and three generations to shed light on how we might find nature in an increasingly artificial world.
 
Visit the Conference site for more information. To view all the formal CPD submissions for the conference, click here.

 

 extra/ordinary National Conference 2010 

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If you missed the National Conference in Sydney this year, or would just like to relive it, visit our dedicated page featuring material from the conference. Some of the material available includes free videos, reports from delegates and audio-visual courses for CPD points.

To view all the formal CPD submissions for the conference, click here

Parallax National Conference 2009 - Podcasts

Slavoj Zizek  

A guest speaker at the Australian Institute of Architects 'Parallax' conference, philosopher and cultural critic, Slavoj Zizek confirmed his status as an intellectual and confrontational maverick. Click here to listen to his talk.

Click here to listen to a closing forum with all the conference delegates; the forum is introduced by Conference Creative Director Richard Blythe.

Critical Visions National Conference 2008

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Find out what other architects thought of the international and national speakers in the Australian Institute of Architects 2008 National Conference.

Continuum YouTube channel

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Continuum's YouTube channel not only brings you course teasers and conference videos; we've been hard at work building up a Favourites list to serve as your one-stop location for architecture-related videos.

Recent additions include a spectacular light show from the Guggenheim, a unique demonstration of how Crescendo Studios have been using Second Life as a professional architectural tool, and the interview "Form to Formless" with renowned Australian Architect Stan Symonds. If it's architectural and it's interesting, you'll find it on our Favourites list.

 


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