Heritage Series 2025 Bundle – Sustainability, compliance, inclusivity and climate resilience
Live Webinars
Recordings will be made available to those who purchase the live webinar series bundle. Or click on the links below to register for each session individually.
A four-part series offering a total of 8 Formal CPD points.
Session 1: Environmental sustainability and heritage
Session 2: Negotiating the impacts of National Construction Code compliance on heritage
Session 3: Inclusive design and heritage spaces
Session 4: Heritage and climate resilience
Overview
This four-part intensive program of standalone webinars provides practising architects with skills development through practical, case-study-based professional development, covering assessment, analysis, design, and delivery of heritage works.
Drawing on local and international best practice conservation techniques, the series aims to inform both non-heritage architects and heritage specialists. Featuring a range of expert speakers, it is ideal for architects looking to refresh their knowledge, deepen their understanding of heritage project requirements, enhance their awareness of conservation practices, and learn when and how to seek and coordinate expert advice.
To learn more, click the individual session links below.
7 August 2025
Session 1: Environmental sustainability and heritage
This session focuses on the nexus of heritage and sustainability, with the recent launch of the Institute’s Architecture Industry Decarbonising Plan 2025–2050. Join Nigel Bertram, Clare Kennedy as they explore how heritage and sustainability aspirations can work side-by-side to safeguard our built legacy and the planet.
14 August 2025
Session 2: Negotiating the impacts of National Construction Code compliance on heritage
The NCC sets the minimum requirements for safety, health, amenity, accessibility, and sustainability of buildings, including those with heritage significance. Architect Anne-Marie Treweeke, building surveyor Marie Otteren and fire engineer Ian Moore discuss how architects and consultant teams can work together to meet the challenge of NCC compliance while respecting heritage values and avoiding unnecessary interventions.
21 August 2025
Session 3: Inclusive design in heritage spaces
Using best practice case studies, Eric Martin AM and Prof. Dr. Janice Rieger investigate the intersection of heritage conservation and inclusive design, exploring how heritage spaces can meet the needs of all abilities, beyond building code and DDA minimum compliance, and how architects can work to create accessible spaces for all users. Through case studies and practical insights, participants will gain a deeper understanding of how heritage spaces can be sensitively adapted to meet diverse needs whilst preserving cultural significance. This session will examine what inclusivity means and how this is negotiated within a heritage context.
28 August 2025
Session 4: Heritage and climate resilience
In this session, Catherine Forbes, Tanya Park and Jennifer Castaldi will each explore disaster risk management in a heritage context, including earthquake and flood mitigation for heritage assets in regional New South Wales, as well as earthquake and rising sea level regulations.