03 What’s On
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13.10.21
Title: Contract Administration Date: Friday 1 October 2021 Time: 10AM AEST Location: Webinar Cost: $500.00 Duration: 3 hours CPD Points: 4 Presenter: Geoff Hoare, Graaph Design
Title: Reduce Construction Costs (with these NonDesign Techniques) Date: Wednesday 13 October 2021 Time: 11AM ADST Location: Webinar Cost: $44.00 Register: https://bit.ly/3mb2Y4V Duration: 1 hour CPD Points: 1 Presenter: Richard Armstrong, ProCalc
Content: The Contract Administration workshop assists building designers to develop the knowledge and skills to: manage and administer standard form building contracts; and develop administrative and reporting systems to manage a building contract on behalf of a client; and enable participants to confidently offer Contract Administration as another service within their practice. The workshop also introduces participants to: the principles of selecting, advising and administering a standard for a building contract for residential and commercial building projects; examine those contracts and identify the benefits and/or disadvantages of the various contract suites; examine the Design Matters National standard form contracts, the appendixes and various forms and instructions that are referenced within the contract to gain an understanding of each component. The workshop also assists those building designers seeking registration as a building practitioner in Victoria and enables applicants who have successfully completed this course to produce a certificate and various work examples to satisfy the contract administration experience criteria required for registration as a Building Design Architectural by the VBA.
12.10.21 Title: Cross-laminated Timber Construction for Residential Date: 12 October 2021 Time: 11AM ADST Location: Webinar Cost: $44.00 Register: https://bit.ly/3lzNfxE Duration: 1 CPD Points: 1 Presenter: Adam Jones, XLam Australia
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Content: There is massive interest at present among building professionals in a new, state-of-the-art engineered-timber product called Cross-laminated Timber (CLT). While its recent take-up has predominantly been in mid-rise commercial office buildings and apartments, it is also a highly versatile, sustainable, renewable and thermally-efficient building product for residential applications. Adam Jones, XLam Technical Manager, will discuss the opportunities for utilising CLT in residential projects, particularly and importantly, the key design and specification requirements. He will feature and discuss a number of recent exemplary residential projects constructed using CLT.
Content: Learn non-design techniques which can be used to minimise builders’ costs on every project you design. Based on research conducted with some of Australia’s most savvy building designers and architects, this one-hour session teaches you how to: Professionally generate the best build value for your clients using competitive, dynamic and best-practice work methods; Expertly assess the builders’ market so you can precisely match the right builders with your clients’ projects (and budgets); Source lower cost estimates from builders with a little-known technique that’s entirely counter-intuitive – and even have the builder thank you!; Dramatically reduce the number of re-designs you undertake and better manage client budget expectations; Drive great value for your clients by avoiding particular tender types that needlessly push up build prices; and access little-used, but freely available, market trend tools so you can reliably advise clients of builders pricing dynamics before you go to market.
15.10.21 Title: Annual BD Awards WA & NT Date: Friday 15 October 2021 Time: 7PM AWST Location: WA Museum Boola Bardip Register: https://bit.ly/Awards15OctWANT Duration: 4 hours Presenter: Holly McSweeney Sponsors: James Hardie, Webber Insurance, CSR Bradford, Weathertex, Bluescope Colorbond, Metroll, and HomeBase.
