Diary

Events for your diary.

RIAI

Exhibition: Irish Architecture Awards 2006 exhibition on display. Mayo: August 28th to September 4th, Customs House Studio, The Quay, Westport. Enniskillen: September 7th-22nd, the Ardhowen Theatre, Dublin Road, Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh. Details: Jill Jacob (01-6691463) or email: jjacob@riai.ie.

AGM: September 4th, 6pm, 8 Merrion Square, D2. Details: Angela Cunningham (01-6761703) or email acunningham@riai.ie.

CPD: RIAI refresher programme 2006 (members only). Galway: October 16th. Limerick: October 23rd. Cork: October 25th. Dublin: November 21st. Contact: tharte@riai.ie.

Event: entries for the RIAI silver medals for conservation and restoration 1999/2000/2001 available at 8 Merrion Sq, D2 or www.riai.ie. Closing: November 10th. Details: Jill Jacob (01-6691463) or email jjacob@riai.ie.

IAVI

Seminar: the valuation of architectural heritage - cultural asset or real estate? Speaker: Dr Tracy Pickerell. September 13th, 5.30pm, RDS, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4.

Meeting: national council, September 21st, 2.30pm, 38 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.

Seminar: entitlement to fees - update of Part V; residential stamp duty; econveyancing; wayleaves and rights of way; family law and property. Various experts on the seminar topics. September 26th, 10am to 5pm, Clarion Hotel, Sligo.

Irish Architectural Archive

Exhibition: Maurice Craig - 50 years of photographing architecture. Exhibition of photographs of architecture from the serious to the whimsical. Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Till September 29th. 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, Co Offaly.

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 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 degree at DIT.

Course: garden design for one or two years, leading to higher national diploma. One-year progression to 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 begin 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 UCD sports grounds on August 26th at 10am sharp. Barbecue and prize-giving in the Old Punch Bowl, corner of Booterstown Avenue and the Rock Road from 4pm on. All members, non-members, colleagues and friends are welcome to attend. Details: Peter Levins at 01-6477900.

The Organic Centre

Event: kids time - 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 school grounds. The course combines a mix of activities and theory with ideas on how to work with kids outdoors. August 26th from 10am to 5pm. Fee: €80 (per person) includes lunch and materials. Details: 071-9854338.

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. Details: 01-6761749.

Irish Property & Facility Management Association

Event: annual conference entitled "managing change in changing times". Speakers: Finbarr Flood, former chairman of the Labour Court and former MD of Guinness Ireland; Richard Fallon, head of development at the Equality Authority; John O'Donoghue, HR director of Noonan Services Group; Sean Boylan, team coach and motivator. September 13th, 8.30am to 2.30pm. Radisson SAS, St Helen's Hotel, Booterstown. Details: Brian Whelan, IPFMA 01-6765500 / 086-8134080 or Sandra McDowell, McDowell & Assocs PR (01-2809755 / 087-2564350). Email: mcdpr@indigo.ie.

Society of Chartered Surveyors

CPD: evidence and the expert witness. Speaker: Andrew Lenny. September 7th, Davenport Hotel, D2. Details: Gwen Wilson (01-6765500) Organisations should send entries to Mary Hetherington before noon on Thursday for inclusion the following Thursday. Telephone 01 675 8000; fax: 01 675 8037;