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Heritage Series 2025: Sustainability, compliance, inclusivity and climate resilience
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Heritage Series 2025: Sustainability, compliance, inclusivity and climate resilience
 

Heritage Series 2025 Bundle – Sustainability, compliance, inclusivity and climate resilience

On Demand

A four-part series offering a total of 8 Formal CPD points.

Click REGISTER NOW to register for all four sessions at a discounted rate, or follow the links below to the individual sessions.

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 sessions 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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this four-part series participants should be able to:

  • Understand the opportunities for sustainable outcomes in heritage buildings 
  • Compare options for addressing embodied carbon when working with heritage buildings
  • Apply knowledge of the Architecture Industry Decarbonisation Plan 2025-2050 to heritage projects and more generally
  • Understand and apply best practice approaches to addressing National Construction Code compliance when working with heritage buildings
  • Explain the roles of relevant consultants to assist in negotiating compliance when balancing heritage sensitivities and controls
  • Apply design strategies to minimise or mitigate the impact of code compliance, while maintaining the heritage significance of a place.
  •  Understand the issues and opportunities when addressing inclusivity for heritage places  
  • Apply knowledge of relevant legislation, building codes and standards to address barriers to universal access of heritage places and sites
  • Apply knowledge of behavioural and social sciences to optimise inclusivity in design, within a heritage context
  • Understand how disaster risk management principles can be applied in a heritage context
  • Apply an understanding of risk management and mitigation principles and strategies to support the climate resilience of heritage buildings

NSCA 2021 Performance Criteria

Our Heritage Series deliver outcomes related to the following Competencies from the 2021 National Standard of Competency for Architects:

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AND PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT 

PC1 Comply with the regulatory requirements and obligations pertaining to practice as an architect, including legislation, professional codes of conduct, obligations for continuing professional development and professional indemnity insurance.
PC3 Apply principles of project planning, considering implications for Country, environmental sustainability, communities, stakeholders and project costs.  
PC8 Be able to implement culturally responsive and meaningful engagement processes that respect the importance of Country and reciprocal relationships with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples across architectural services.
PC12 Provide independent, culturally responsive and objective advice in accordance with relevant building codes, standards, technical specifications and guidelines, and planning regulations, including climate change implications, across all aspects of architectural practice.
PC15 Comply with legal and ethical obligations relating to legislated requirements in relation to copyright, moral rights, authorship of cultural knowledge and intellectual property requirements across architectural services.

PROJECT INITIATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

PC17 Have an understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ aspirations to care for Country and how these inform architectural design.
PC19 Be able to apply creative imagination, design precedents, research, emergent knowledge and critical evaluation in formulating and refining concept design options, including the exploration of three dimensional form and spatial quality.
PC25 Be able to draw on knowledge from the history and theory of architecture as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design.
PC26 Be able to undertake site, cultural and contextual analysis as part of preliminary design research.
PC28 Be able to draw on knowledge from building sciences and technology, environmental sciences and behavioural and social sciences as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design to optimise the performance of the project.
PC29 Be able to develop and evaluate design options in terms of the heritage, cultural and community values embodied in the site, and in relation to project requirements.
PC32 Be able to apply planning principles and statutory planning requirements to the site and conceptual design of the project.

DETAILED DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTATION 

PC39 Be able to integrate the material selection, structural and construction systems established in the conceptual design into the detailed design and documentation.
PC41 Be able to coordinate and integrate input from specialists and consultants into the detailed design and documentation.
PC42 Be able to prepare planning applications that comply with planning regulations
PC46 Be able to produce project documentation that meets the requirements of the contract and procurement process and complies with regulatory controls, building standards and codes, and conditions of construction and planning approvals.

DESIGN DELIVERY AND CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES 

PC50 Be able to continue engagement with relevant Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples throughout all stages of the project and its delivery in a meaningful, respectful and appropriate way.
PC51 Be able to provide advice to clients and lead (or contribute to) the process of selecting a qualified contractor in accordance with the agreed procurement method and construction contract.
PC53 Be able to provide advice to clients on the impact of a selected procurement method on cost, time, life cycle implications and quality control during the construction phase.
PC54 Be able to monitor construction progress and quality as required under the provisions of the construction contract, which may include site visits.

Price

Members: $350
Non-Members: $700
Graduate (within 5 years of graduation): $215.10
SONA: $53.20

 
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