Understanding Appearance Grade Plywood

Master how to confidently select, specify, and integrate appearance plywood into your projects. This comprehensive CPD course covers everything you need to know about Australian Standards compliance, fire and acoustic performance, sustainability certifications, and key installation considerations.
– Austral Plywoods
Adaptive Surface Renewal: Reducing Construction Waste Through External Resurfacing & Overlay Design

Adaptive Surface Renewal explores how resurfacing and overlay design can extend the life of existing infrastructure while reducing demolition, landfill waste, and embodied carbon. The CPD examines innovative techniques that improve sustainability, minimise disruption, and deliver durable, cost-effective outcomes without full reconstruction.
– StoneSet Permeable Paving
Incorporating permeable paving into modern infrastructure to create sustainable urban landscapes

Incorporating permeable paving into modern infrastructure explores how innovative paving systems can improve stormwater management, reduce urban heat, enhance accessibility, and support sustainable design. The CPD provides practical guidance on specification, performance, and compliance, helping professionals create resilient, attractive, and environmentally responsible public and private spaces.
-StoneSet Permeable Paving
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
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
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
Design for Neurodiversity: Neurodiverse-friendly built environment characteristics

This presentation introduces neurodiversity, outlines key legislation and standards, and highlights common sensory challenges and their design implications. It provides foundational insight into how diverse cognitive and sensory needs interact with the built environment and why incorporating neuroinclusive principles is essential for creating supportive, accessible, and human-centred spaces.
– Altro
Designing with Confidence – The Critical Role of Surveying in Architectural Planning

Gain essential knowledge of surveying technologies and accuracy standards critical to architectural planning. This course covers key terms, scanning methods, point cloud preparation, and modelling workflows—empowering professionals to collaborate confidently with surveyors and make informed design decisions based on precise spatial data.
-ESO Surveyors