From Graduate to Great – Training for Practice Success

How can practices better support the transition from architectural education into practice, and help emerging architects build the technical capability that develops through professional experience? Join the ACA for a CPD webinar with architect and educator Ryan Loveday, exploring how practices can better support graduates and emerging architects to develop technical knowledge, judgement and confidence.

Ryan will examine some of the pressures contributing to the capability gap, including reduced exposure to construction and site delivery, changing procurement models, BIM and tighter project fees. He will then look at practical approaches to training that move graduates beyond software proficiency towards a stronger understanding of materials, building systems, detailing and project delivery.

Using the progression See, Draw, Build, Lead, the session will consider how structured learning, mentoring and project experience can help emerging architects build the skills needed to document, coordinate and ultimately lead successful project delivery.

Key areas covered will include:

• Acknowledging the gaps in technical and construction knowledge in the transition from university to practice
• The impact of BIM, procurement models and commercial pressures on ongoing learning and documentation quality
• The risk those gaps pose to your firm and the wider industry…and what to do about it!
• Creating structured, progressive learning within practice towards technical understanding and professional judgement
• The role of mentoring, role-modelling and earned experience ahead of QA and systems
• Articulating a training pathway from knowledge of construction materials, systems and detailing, to leading project delivery
• The changes our industry should be collectively advocating for!

WHERE & WHEN

COST

Members $30 incl GST
Non-members $60 incl GST
*One ticket per person. *All ticket holders will receive the recording registration link after the webinar.

OUR SPEAKER

Ryan Loveday is a director of Fulton Trotter Architects, a mid-size practice specialising in social infrastructure projects- education, seniors, health, and community work. His expertise is as a nuts-and-bolts technical architect running complex and complicated institutional projects, particularly planning, detailing, and problem solving…pragmatic but always thoughtful of the ways good design builds momentum for good communities. Ryan is a LinkedIn tragic, a classic over-thinker, a regular speaker, uni tutor, early career contributor, a BOAQ Examiner – and as a side gig – runs short courses for grads called Moss Architectural Learning.

CPD

Completion of this 1 hour webinar and submission of the self-checked assessment task will deliver 1 formal CPD point.