Events for your diary
Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
CPD: project management in the built environment. June 14th, 15th and 16th. Midlands. Contact: tharte@riai.ie.
Consultation: the RIAI and the Simon Communities of Ireland have joined forces for a fundraising initiative. RIAI architects will give members of the public an hour's consultation with an architect on May 27th for a €50 donation to Simon.
Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute
Seminar: mortgage valuations with Aine Myler. Today, 5.30pm, Mont Clare Hotel, Dublin 2.
Seminar: part five update - entitlement to fees; wayleaves and rights of way; e-conveyancing and family law. May 29th, 10am to 5.30pm, South Court Hotel, Limerick.
Exams: BSc exams for first, second, third and fourth years. June 8th and 9th, DIT, Bolton Street, Dublin 1.
Exams: residential and land agency course. June 14th, 15th and 16th. NCI, IFSC, Dublin 1.
Meeting: national council. June 16th, 4.15pm, Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow, Co Carlow.
Engineers Ireland
CPD: CPD company of the year symposium. May 30th, Burlington Hotel, Dublin.
CPD: project management. May 31st and June 1st, Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
CPD: project management. June 7th/8th and June 21st/22nd. Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
CPD: technical report writing. June 15th and 16th. Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
CPD: construction contract awareness. June 22nd and 23rd. Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Workshop: linking research to classroom activities. June 23rd, Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.
Details: Gabby Lynch at 01-6090222 or email gabby@engineersireland.ie.
Institute of Project Management
Course: diploma in applied project management. Recommences: Cork, Dublin, Galway. September 2006.
Course: project management framework. June 14th and 15th.
Course: international certification. Details: 01-6614677. Email:info@projectmanagement.ie or www.projectmanagement.ie.
Organic Centre
Course: sustainable house design and construction with Peter Cowman. June 10th. Fee: €80.
Course: dry stone wall construction with Richard O'Gorman and Bob Wilson, June 24th and 25th, July 15th and 16th, August 19th and 20th. Fee: €160. Details: Hans Wieland, 071-9854338, or email organiccentre@eircom.net.
Bray Institute of Further Education
Courses: interior design. FETAC level five one-year course. BTEC higher national diploma - two-year course with progression to degree course.
Course: furniture design. FETAC level five, one-year course.
Course: garden design. FETAC level five, one-year course.
Course: graphic design. BTEC higher national diploma. Two-year course with progression to degree course.
Course: fashion design. FETAC level five. One-year course. BTEC higher national diploma. Two-year course with progression to degree course. Design courses start September 2006. Details: 01-2866233.
Senior College Dún Laoghaire
Morning course: health & safety. One year course leading to higher national certificate.
Morning course: interior design - one, two and three years. RHODEC Assoc diploma, higher national diploma, progression to hons degree at DIT.
Course: garden design for one or two years, leading to higher national diploma. One year progression to hons degree.
Course: auctioneering (IPAV), one or two years for certificate. Two-year progression to hons degree.
Course: landscape design for one or two years leading to higher national diploma. One year progression to hons degree. Details: 1800 2655343. Email: info@scd.ie or www.scd.ie.
Society of Chartered Surveyors
CPD: land registry - digital mapping and other developments. Today, 6.30pm. Alexander Hotel, Aston Suite. Details: Louise Ryan, 01 676 5500 or www.scs.ie.
Irish Architectural Archive
Exhibition: Maurice Craig - 50 years of photographing architecture. Exhibition of photographs of architecture from the serious to the whimsical, conveying Ireland of the past, to run in the Irish Architectural Archive's Gallery, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 until September 2006. Opening hours: Tuesday-Friday, 10am to 5pm. Admission: free. Tel: 01-6633040. Email: info@iarc.ie or visit www.iarc.ie.
Mayo County Council
Architecture in the public service:conference in Westport, Co Mayo, on June 8th and 9th aimed at architects, local authority managers, engineers and more. Speakers include Dublin City Architect Jim Barrett, Fingal County Architect Marguerite Murphy, Westport Town Architect Simon Wall and Merritt Bucholz, head of the University of Limerick's School of Architecture. Contact Martina Carroll, Architects Section, Mayo County Council, The Mall, Castlebar, tel 094-9024444.
Institute of Professional Auctioneers & Valuers
Graduation: presentation of certificates and diplomas to graduates of IPAV's fine and decorative arts courses on May 26th at 6.30pm in the St Stephen's Green Club, Dublin 2.
Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - Irish Branch
CPD: breakfast seminar presented together with ICES Ireland and Matheson Ormsby Prentice - "recent developments in Irish construction law". June 13th, 8am. Fee: €50. Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbrige, D4. Organisations should send entries to Mary Hetherington before noon on Thursday for inclusion the following Thursday. Telephone 01 675 8000; fax: 01 675 8037;
e-mail: mhetherington@irish-times.ie
