Practice Management and Professional Conduct

This unit of competency encompasses a holistic understanding of the organisation of the profession, practice and business of architecture, with the objective of providing value through sustainable, timely and effective professional services in accordance with the ethical and legal obligations of an architect to clients, colleagues, employees and to broader communities.

(Ref: https://www.aaca.org.au/national-standard-of-competency-for-architects/2021nsca/)

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CPD+ Workshop – HR & Employment for Small Practice

CPD+ Workshop – HR & Employment for Small Practice Setting up your practice is one thing, but at what point do you need to hire staff and who do you need to run a business well?  What do you need to have in place to legally hire and manage staff effectively? This workshop will provide READ MORE

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CPD – ArchiTeam Compulsory Insurance Session (2023)

CPD – ArchiTeam Compulsory Insurance Session (2023) ArchiTeam Insurance members of 2023-24 policy are encouraged to attend this compulsory insurance seminar. It provides insight into the ArchiTeam Group Policy and what day to day operations of your practice can impact your insurance cover. Presenters Greg Hansen, Director AusBrokers Countrywide Vincent Rizzuto, Broker AusBrokers Countrywide AACA READ MORE

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2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Modes (Part 3/3)

CPD – ArchiTeam 2023 Conference – Modes (Part 3/3) The 2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Ways of Working – Strength in small Practice – is an action-packed hybrid conference with satellite events to help us connect and share. Exploring the strength in small practice with a focus on Ways of Working, investigating the critical role that READ MORE

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2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Detail (Part 2/3)

CPD – ArchiTeam 2023 Conference – Detail (Part 2/3) The 2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Ways of Working – Strength in small Practice – is an action-packed hybrid conference with satellite events to help us connect and share. Exploring the strength in small practice with a focus on Ways of Working, investigating the critical role that READ MORE

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2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Teamwork (Part 1/3)

CPD – ArchiTeam 2023 Conference – Teamwork (Part 1/3) The 2023 ArchiTeam Conference – Ways of Working – Strength in small Practice – is an action-packed hybrid conference with satellite events to help us connect and share. Exploring the strength in small practice with a focus on Ways of Working, investigating the critical role that READ MORE

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CPD – Risks of Managing Cost Plus Contracts

CPD – Risks of Managing Cost Plus Contracts In a ‘post-pandemic’ world of inflation and cost escalation challenges, our members are reporting builders are increasingly hesitant to sign traditional fixed price contracts and are instead looking to Cost Plus formats, to mitigate cost escalation risks. Cost Plus contracts have traditionally been used for projects with READ MORE

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CPD – Town Planning: Navigating the System (2023)

CPD – Town Planning: Navigating the System (2023) The town planning system is often one of the primary frustrations for the architectural profession, but by forming a better understanding of the decisions and framework behind them, we can navigate the process to find better and speedier resolutions for our clients. But where to start? The READ MORE

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CPD+ Workshop – Branding & Copywriting

CPD+ Workshop – Branding & Copywriting Your brand is what other people say about you when you’re not in the room… Or so Jeff Bezos says… so what does your architectural practice’s brand saying about you? Your brand is a story unfolding across all your client’s touch points. Branding is the art of aligning what READ MORE

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CPD – Developing a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) for Small Practice

27 May to 3 June is National Reconciliation Week. The National Reconciliation Week 2022 theme, “Be Brave. Make Change.” Is a challenge to all Australians to Be Brave and tackle the unfinished business of reconciliation. What is reconciliation? At its heart, reconciliation is about strengthening relationships between Aboriginal and Torres strait Islander peoples and non-Indigenous READ MORE

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CPD – Growing your Small Practice

CPD – Growing your Small Practice Are you struggling under the workload and feel the need to grow your practice, but don’t know how? We take a walk through the journey from sole practitioner to small practice owner and beyond… Firstly let’s identify the why? Why do you need to grow? What is your goal? READ MORE

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CPD – Partial Services & Copyright

CPD – Partial Services & Copyright In an ideal world we may all like to be engaged for ‘full architectural services’ for each-and-every project we’re involved with, but the reality of contemporary practice is that sometimes we just need to be a bit flexible in the services we offer. Many believe that varied modes of READ MORE

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CPD – Performance Solutions

There has been an increased requirement for Performance Solutions following the introduction of the NCC 2019 Amendment 1 in July 2021. This has created more work for Architects with additional documentation or coordination of specialist consultants required. Professional forums have lit up with questions: When should we expect to need a performance solution? How much READ MORE

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CPD – Partnerships & Collaborations

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” (Helen Keller) Do you occasionally jump off the treadmill of practice life (and deadlines) and wonder if there is a different way to deliver projects? Or how you could broaden the kind of work you do? Or wonder if you are beginning to be READ MORE

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CPD – Updated WH&S Kit

The ArchiTeam Work Health & Safety (WHS) Kit has been reviewed and redone to provide members a tool to use within your practices and to provide the supplementary information needed to submit for preferred suppliers lists and tender/RFI submissions to councils and government. The WHS Kit can also be used to express a practices’ health and safety READ MORE

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CPD – Client Management

Client Management: Behind every great project, is a great client… Or so the saying goes. And it might be a bit of a cliché, but it is true. But what is less often talked about is that behind any great client, is a great client-architect relationship, and great client management. Client Management is key to READ MORE

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ArchiTeam Compulsory Insurance Seminar (2021)

ArchiTeam Insurance members of 2021 – 2022 policy are encouraged to attend this compulsory insurance seminar. It provides insight into the ArchiTeam Group Policy and what day to day operations of your practice can impact your insurance cover. Please note this seminar is compulsory for all directors listed on the insurance policy. ArchiTeam will be READ MORE

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CPD – ArchiTeam 2021 Conference – Design Futures – Part 1/4

CPD – ARCHITEAM CONFERENCE – DESIGN FUTURES Architecture by its very nature must take a position on the future. The very act of design is entirely about conceiving future space and the human interactions with that space. What design assumptions do architects need to rethink in the aftermath of a global pandemic? Key to this rethink READ MORE

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CPD – ArchiTeam 2021 Conference – Trajectories – Part 4/4

CPD – ARCHITEAM CONFERENCE – TRAJECTORIES Putting all these perspectives together, what are the future trajectories architects should be designing towards? How can architects position align leadership, business strategy, collaboration and disruptive innovation to achieve positive outcomes in a world that looks very different compared to the last 5 years.   Speakers Keynote – Jeremy Till READ MORE

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CPD – ArchiTeam 2021 Conference – Business Futures – Part 3/4

CPD – ARCHITEAM CONFERENCE – BUSINESS FUTURES With change comes opportunity. The business futures perspective will look to unpack what these opportunities might be. It will draw upon business acumen from beyond the architecture profession to question our business practices and challenge our status quo. Should architect be looking to expand their service offering, or perhaps READ MORE

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CPD – ArchiTeam 2021 Conference – Practice Futures – Part 2/4

CPD – ARCHITEAM CONFERENCE – PRACTICE FUTURES It was not that long ago that professions were considered a constant. Yet in the age of rapid disruption, it has never been more important for architectural practice to adapt and evolve. What are the trajectories of architectural practice that will enable us to imagine, design and deliver the READ MORE

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CPD – Mental Health & Design for Wellbeing

CPD – MENTAL HEALTH & DESIGN FOR WELLBEING COVID-19 has visibly impacted how we view our world – from witnessing empty cities to ghostly airports. What is less visible but has really emerged into the forefront of the public’s consciousness is the impact that Mental Health plays in our overall sense of Well-being. Lockdowns have also READ MORE

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CPD – Software: What do you advocate for?

Software – What do you advocate for? Architects have come a long way from manual drafting, hand sketch perspectives for presentation and pencil in weekly planners. The advancement of technology and accessibility of devices have transformed how we design, document, communicate and manage our practices, promoting efficiency, clarity, accuracy and streamlining. With so many different READ MORE

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CPD+ Workshop – Going Carbon Neutral

Take your Practice to 100% Carbon Neutral As a key part of the construction industry, Architects cannot shy away from the fact that our projects are a BIG source of carbon emissions. Together, building and construction are responsible for 39% of all carbon emissions in the world (1) – with operational emissions (from energy used READ MORE

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CPD + Workshop: Business Strategy

CPD+ Workshop – Business Strategy What does your ‘ideal architecture practice’ look like to you? Have you put a strategy in place to set you on a path to achieve your ideal practice? As Benjamin Franklin once said, “If you fail to plan you are planning to fail”. No matter what your practice goals, without READ MORE

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CPD: Working from home hacks

CPD Working From Home Hacks: How to make it work for you Work from Home (WFH) has been a whole new frontier for many of us in recent months. Whilst there are silver linings too, it has also been a real hurdle (for those with staff and/or children to juggle) for others. Some of us READ MORE

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CPD+ Workshop – Marketing: Boost Your Business Through Covid and Beyond

CPD+ Workshop – Marketing: Boost Your Business Through Covid and Beyond Marketing For Architects. There are many ways to Market your practice, but which approach will reap the most rewarding results, particularly during these unprecedented times? Whether you are looking to find new work, win better work, find quality clients or push your practice to READ MORE

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Stimulus Packages & You

The Coronavirus pandemic has unleashed chaos and destruction on both lives and livelihoods. The Australian Federal and State Governments, like so many others around the world, have stepped up to the plate to create special Stimulus packages to provide targeted relief to businesses. Given the urgent and rushed nature of the announcements (some of which have READ MORE

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Scope Creep

Buildings and the processes we use to design them are both incredibly complex and susceptible to blowouts. We all know that managing scope creep is a difficult challenge, but what tools and insights are there to help us keep our fees and our clients’ budgets in check? In this CPD, we will explore ways to READ MORE

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Making A Living Conference – Resilient business and the future (Part 4)

Making A Living, brought to you by ArchiTeam, brings together a broad range of professionals representing a range of disciplines from Australia and abroad. This conference shares insights from architects and allied professionals leveraging entrepreneurship, business strategy, collaboration and disruptive innovation to achieve positive outcomes. Part 4 Living: Resilient business and the future How can READ MORE

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Making A Living Conference – Defining and achieving success (Part 3)

Making A Living, brought to you by ArchiTeam, brings together a broad range of professionals representing a range of disciplines from Australia and abroad. This conference shares insights from architects and allied professionals leveraging entrepreneurship, business strategy, collaboration and disruptive innovation to achieve positive outcomes. Part 3 Living: Defining and achieving success How can architects READ MORE

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Making A Living Conference – People and systems (Part 2)

Making A Living, brought to you by ArchiTeam, brings together a broad range of professionals representing a range of disciplines from Australia and abroad. This conference shares insights from architects and allied professionals leveraging entrepreneurship, business strategy, collaboration and disruptive innovation to achieve positive outcomes. Part 2 Making: People and systems With which people must READ MORE

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Making A Living Conference – Design value and knowledge (Part 1)

Making A Living, brought to you by ArchiTeam, brings together a broad range of professionals representing a range of disciplines from Australia and abroad. This conference shares insights from architects and allied professionals leveraging entrepreneurship, business strategy, collaboration and disruptive innovation to achieve positive outcomes. Part 1 Making: Design value and knowledge How can architects READ MORE

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ArchiTeam Compulsory Insurance Seminar

ArchiTeam Insurance members of 2019-2020 policy are encouraged to view this compulsory insurance seminar. It provides insight into the ArchiTeam Group Policy and how Architects Insurance has been affected by the Lacrosse case and the use of non-compliant building materials. Please note this seminar is compulsory for all directors listed on the insurance policy. ArchiTeam READ MORE

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Practice Management and Professional Conduct
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Approaches to Town Planning

Negotiating the Planning minefield. Landing a Planning Permit, of late, is beginning to feel like a game of cat-and-mouse. Not only is it a time-consuming process, failure at this crucial hurdle has a major impact on a Practice’s future workload (and finances). This CPD event will examine various tips for negotiating successfully with councils, present READ MORE

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Employing Staff in a small practice

Have you got more work than you can handle? Do you need to fill a skills gap that only a young graduate can provide? Do you need support to help you run your business better? Employing your first staff member is an exciting development for a sole practitioner or a young studio, but it’s also READ MORE

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Fee Proposals for Small Projects

Putting together a fee proposal for small projects can be challenging. The percentage fee method that often suits larger projects can become unacceptably high when applied to a small residential renovation or interior fitout. But what other options are there? Inspired by a long and enthusiastic thread on the ArchiTeam forum, this CPD event will READ MORE

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Practice Management Software

The core resource of your architecture business is the time you and your team dedicate to it. An hour working on a sketch design proposal is an hour you can charge to your client, while an hour working on marketing you can’t. One earns you cold, hard cash and the other doesn’t, but both are READ MORE

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ArchiTeam Group Policy

ArchiTeam’s insurance brokers, Greg Hansen and Vincent Rizutto of Austbrokers Countrywide discuss the ArchiTeam group policy. We recommend that ArchiTeam members that are a part of the group policy or those thinking of joining watch this video to gain some understanding of the group policy.

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Successful Small Practice – Small Practice in Community

Raised in Southeast Asia, Kevin spent nine years in the United States before returning to Malaysia to reclaim old dreams of a sole practice in 2002. Kevin will discuss his experience with Small Practice Management and discuss his passion in small projects. PRESENTER: Kevin Mark Low – Small Projects (MYS) AACA COMPETENCY: Practice Management LEARNING READ MORE

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Small Winnings, Big Rewards – Small Practice in Community

Founder and Director of the British consultancy firm Colander, Caroline Cole has inspired many of the UK’s most successful architectural practices to develop their businesses. Caroline will discuss her work with architects so that they could establish and maintain a profitable balance between creative excellence and business acumen whilst establishing strong client relationships. PRESENTER: Caroline READ MORE

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