Diary

Events for your diary.

Irish Auctioneers & Valuers Institute

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: project management - module two. 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.

Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland

CPD: project management in the built environment. June 16th, 23rd, and 30th. Silver Springs Hotel, Cork. Contact: tharte@riai.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.

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. Design courses start September 2006. Details: 01-2866233.

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, 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

Meeting: quantity surveying divisional committee meeting. June 8th.

Meeting: council meeting. June 9th.

Golf classic: benevolent fund golf classic, Woodbrook Golf Course. June 16th. 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 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.

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, Ballsbridge, D4.

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 commence September 2006. Details: 01-2985412 or 01-2951376.

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.

• 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