Non - Conforming Building Products- Chain of Responsbility

Presented by David Lonton from QBCC

Learning Objectives:

• New Building and Construction Legislation (NCBP)
• Chain of responsibility
• Key Features of the NCBP Legislation
• Reporting

Prefabrication Architecture

Presented by Bill McCorkell from ArchiBlox

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the opportunities and challenges of designing and constructing using prefabrication technology.
• Understand the construction and assembly process of a prefabricated building.
• Recognise the benefits of incorporating sustainable building practices and technologies into the design of buildings.

Learning in Vietnam

Presented by Ed Haysom from HAYSOM Architects Vietnam

Learning Objectives:

• Examination of housing solutions in a tropical city and developed at the same time as Brisbane.
• Australia has opted for particular housing solutions based on its British heritage, this shows how a French heritage plus a war develop a different solution.
• Learning from Vietnam’s mistakes in dealing with population growth and housing density
• Looking at an alternative to present high-rise solutions

Retiring? Selling Your Business?

What you need to know

Presented by Martin Checketts from Mills Oakley

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how organisational and corporate structure influences succession planning and retirement decisions of practices.
• Apply a succession or retirement methodology to their practice to assist with ownership/management changes.

Building Your Brand

Marketing and Social Media

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how to craft a compelling social media and marketing strategy.
• Understand the need for data and tracking marketing impact.
• Identify new and useful platforms that can assist business in marketing.

The Symbol of Memory & Humility from the Midden

Presented by Stuart Tanner, Stuart Tanner Architects

Learning Objectives:

• The question of identity of a place - using experience of loci and memory to guide a response to place.
• Consumerism and desire and how it overrides the mindful response to living and experience of environment.

Project Bank Accounts

Presented By Megan Johns and Danielle Cooper

Department of Housing and Public Works

Learning Objectives:

• Understand what a Project bank Account is and how it impacts architects.
• Understand what progress payments are and how they are administered.
• Identify the changes to defeast period liability Notice requirements.

Managing IP - Media and People

Presented by Rachelle Downie and David Fixler

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Learning Objectives:

• Basic understanding  of what copyright is and what it protects.
• An understanding of how to navigate copyright ownership in the digital space including on social media .
• The dos and don’ts with photos and art in buildings.
• A basic understanding of moral rights.
• Key considerations for managing IP within an architecture practice.

100 Resilient Cities

Presented by Maree Grenfell, City of Melbourne

Learning Objectives:

• Define urban resilience and understand the interconnection between shocks and stresses
• Understand the emerging global practice of urban resilience
• Understand the drivers of urban resilience and how to apply these to a city context
• Understand the Qualities of Resilience and how to apply these to project planning
• Identify ways to make a city more resilient to shocks and stresses

Flexibility - we're doing it why aren't you?

Brought to you by the Queensland Gender Equity Committee

Learning Objectives:

• Ability to identify a flexible workplace, its benefits and challenges.
• Identify how practices and employees can promote flexible work arrangements.
• Identify key people and resources to assist in creating change.
• Illustrate how to implement a quick ‘win’/solution for flexibility in their workplace.

Nightingale 2.0 - Sustainability and Community

Learning Objectives:

• How Nightingale 2.0 provides an 8.7 star NatHERS average and up to 9.0 stars on some of the apartments.
• An introduction to some alternative housing models
• An introduction to the Nightingale Model