Irish Architectural ArchiveExhibition: Maurice Craig - 50 years of photographing architecture.
Exhibition of photographs of architecture from the serious to the whimsical, conveying Ireland of the past. Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Till September 2006. Tuesday-Friday: 10am to 5pm. Admission: free. Tel: 01-6633040. Email: info@iarc.ie or www.iarc.ie.
Engineers Ireland
CPD: construction contract awareness. September 6th and 7th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: chairing meetings. September 15th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: reliability modelling (maintenance management). September 15th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: project management - module one. September 19th/20th and 26th/27th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: technical report writing. September 19th/20th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: project management - module one. September 26th/27th. Limerick.
CPD: planning for road projects, September 27th and 28th. Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore.
Course: quantities and estimating. October 5th and 6th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
Course: organisational skills for engineers. October 11th. Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
Seminar: traffic management at roadworks - (NRA) traffic signs manual update. October 12th. Carlton Airport Hotel, Dublin Airport. Details: Gabby Lynch at 01-6090222 or email gabby@engineersireland.ie.
Bray Institute of Further Education
Courses: interior design. FETAC level five one-year course. BTEC higher national diploma - two-year course with possible 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. Courses start September. Details: 01-286 6233.
Senior College Dún Laoghaire
Morning course: health and safety. One-year course leading to higher national certificate.
Morning course: interior design - one, two and three years. RHODEC Assoc diploma, higher national diploma, and progression to honours degree at DIT.
Course: garden design for one or two years, leading to higher national diploma. One-year progression to honours degree.
Course: auctioneering (IPAV), one or two years for certificate. Two-year progression to degree.
Course: landscape design for one or two years leading to higher national diploma. One-year progression to degree. Details: 1800 2655343. Email: info@scd.ie or www.scd.ie.
Institute of Project Management
Course: diploma in applied project management. Cork, Dublin, Galway from September.
Course: international certification. Details: 01-6614677. Email: info@projectmanagement.ie or www.projectmanagement.ie.
College of Further Education Dundrum
Course: interior design. FETAC level five. Mornings only.
Course: floristry and garden design. FETAC level five. Mornings only. All courses commencing in September. Details: 01-2985412/01-2951376 or www.cfedundrum.com.
Dublin Civic Trust
Seminar: one-day seminar on the structural repair of historic buildings by Ian Hume, conservation engineering consultant, formerly chief engineer at English Heritage and current chairman of Conservation Accreditation for Engineers (CARE) scheme. September 27th. Fee: €160. Details: Kerry Power at 01-475 6911.
Young Chartered Surveyors
Event: annual six-a-side soccer tournament at University College Dublin sports grounds on Saturday, August 26th starting at 10am sharp. Barbecue and prize-giving held in the Old Punch Bowl, corner of Booterstown Avenue and the Rock Road from 4pm onwards. All members, non-members, colleagues and friends are welcome to attend. Further details are available from Peter Levins at 01-6477900.
The Organic Centre
Event: kidstime - activities for children. Experiment with making your own flavoured water with organic produce and be prepared to get sticky fingers making your own insect or flower to take home. August 27th from 12.30pm to 1.30pm.
Course: organic gardening in schools for teachers who wish to set up a vegetable, herb, fruit or wildlife garden on their school grounds. The course will combine a mixture of practical activities and theory with lots of ideas on how to work with kids in an outdoor environment. August 26th from 10am to 5pm. Fee: €80 (per person) includes lunch and course materials. Details: 071 985 4338.
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Event: "the darkest Dublin collection, a pictorial record of Dublin slums in 1913". September 4th at 7.30pm in 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Further details: 01-6761749.
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
