Planning Institute of Australia's National Congress 2012

Adelaide Convention Centre, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia
29 April – 2 May 2012

Join the Planning Institute of Australia in Adelaide from 29 April – 2 May 2012 for the 2012 National Congress, Planning for a Sunburnt Country: Building resilient communities through planning.

A new look format and program schedule have been developed, which will be sure to engage, invigorate and motivate delegates. Here is a snapshot of what can be expected from the 2012 National Congress:

• Short, Sharp and Shiny: The Cutting Edge of Planning concurrent presentations. These are short, to the point presentations to allow delegates to gain more understanding and knowledge in a short period of time.
• The third day of the Congress will include the opportunity for delegates to join a Master Class on topics including Urban Design, Social Planning and Transport or alternatively participate in study tours around the city and further beyond including the Barossa.
• Concurrent Sessions at offsite venues to get you up close and personal to the topics discussed.
• Poet in Residence as part of the Congress and a Poets Corner where planners can let their creative juices flow writing poems and limericks relating to planning.
• Bike Tours and Walking activities during the Congress Program as well as the opportunity to experience some of the sites of South Australia including Tasting Australia, the Barossa Valley and historic Hahndorf.
• Site tours on the Wednesday including a tour to the Willunga Basin inclusive of the McLaren Vale winery region, on the urban/rural fringe of Adelaide – taking in the landscape, heritage, coastal and agricultural values of the area and being introduced to the planning of the rural part of the Onkaparinga council – attractions, issues, actions.

The Congress will be preceded by YPConnect12 to held at the Stamford Grand Glenelg 28 & 29 April 2012. The National Young Planner Group currently finalising speakers for this event that is now marked as part of the PIA Congress calendar. We hope to see you in Adelaide for what is shaping up to be an exciting National Congress!

For more information, visit the PIA National Congress website: www.piacongress.com/ or click HERE Register.

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Australian Institute of Architects National Architecture Conference - EXPERIENCE

Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre, Southbank, Brisbane, Queensland
10 - 12 May 2012

The theme of the 2012 National Architecture Conference is experience.
Building on ideas introduced in the recent natural artifice conference, the Australian Institute of Architects wish to focus closely on the real, sensed experience of architecture within its natural and constructed settings and the experience of designing and making architecture.

Experience takes the long view of architecture. A distinguished group of keynote speakers have been invited to discuss the experience of their buildings, the experience of their settings, the experience of their design and construction, the experience of their users and inhabitants, and the enduring experience of architecture. These are not trivial questions.

Our generation is experiencing history’s most rapid convergence of population growth, urbanisation, resource depletion, environmental degradation and climatic challenge within a rapidly shifting geo-political and economic dynamic. This is not the time to be beguiled by baubles and gilt.

In 2012, for the first time in more than twenty years, the conference is to be held in Brisbane and in the days before and after, a rich range of tours and events will be hosted by Queensland’s leading architects. Bus tours from the Sunshine Coast or Gold Coast airports into Brisbane will provide opportunities to see rapidly growing coastal cities. There will be sunrise tours for serious cyclists and self-guided walking, ferry and city-cycle tours for the more sedate.

Parallel events, exhibitions and displays associated with the conference will be offered within the venue at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre. The conference venue is in Brisbane’s lively South Bank, overlooking the Brisbane CBD and adjacent to the highly awarded Queensland Art Gallery, State Library of Queensland and Gallery of Modern Art.

The Australian Institute of Architects invites you to share the experience.

For more information and to register, click HERE to visit the AIA National Conference website.

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Australian Institute of Refrigeration, Airconditioning and Heating
Upcoming Events

Refrigeration Engineering Conference 2012

Holiday Inn Brisbane, 159 Roma Street, Brisbane QLD 4000
24th July 2012

 AIRAH is holding a conference dedicated to refrigeration: Refrigeration Engineering – adapting to our low carbon reality. Abstracts are now welcome.

AIRAH CEO Phil Wilkinson says the conference is a logical follow-up to the first Refrigeration Engineering conference, which was held last year in Melbourne and proved to be enormously popular and successful.

“Given that we are on the eve of the implementation of the carbon tax, we feel now is an appropriate time for AIRAH to host the second Refrigeration Engineering conference,” Wilkinson says.

“Refrigeration Engineering – adapting to our low carbon reality will deal with refrigeration issues in the age of the carbon tax. The cost impact to refrigerants, the skills shortage and the latest technical developments all need to be discussed in detail.”

AIRAH recently released a Call for Abstracts, ahead of the conference.  Click HERE for suggestions on topics and case study ideas.

For more information on the conference, click HERE to visit the AIRAH website.

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