Architectural technology Graduate Network conference
Date: Friday, 24th February 2006
Venue: DIT Bolton Street
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Book your place on the conference by emailing your name to cormac.allen@dit.ie
CONFERENCE OUTLINE:
The Architectural Technology Graduate Network 2006 annual conference will take place on Friday 24 February at DIT Bolton Street. The conference will run from 2.00pm to 9.00pm, concluding with a buffet supper and wine reception providing an opportunity for graduates to meet socially and discuss further the various issues raised during the event. Attendance is free of charge and is open to all architectural technologists, including graduates of Waterford IT, Cork IT, Limerick IT and Carlow IT. It is hoped that as many as 350 delegates will attend, with the conference providing a unique opportunity for technologists to debate the challenges facing their profession.
The purpose of the 2006 conference will be to discuss the role of the professional architectural technologist in the building industry. In particular the conference will seek to establish a means by which the particular expertise of the architectural technologist as a technical designer and as a member of the design team might be better understood by government departments, the legal profession, lending institutions and the general public.
Just as the architect, the engineer and the surveyor each has a particular expertise in the design of buildings, so the architectural technologist has emerged as a vital member of the building design team. However, being a relatively new profession, the expertise and role of the architectural technologist is not well understood in Ireland. By contrast, the professional interests of the architectural technologist in the United Kingdom have been very successfully represented by the Chartered Institute of Architectural Technologists, an organisation which has succeeded in establishing the architectural technologist as a profession of equal standing to the architect, the engineer and the surveyor.
CPD STATUS OF CONFERENCE:
The 'RIAI Members Guide to CPD' accepts educational events, conferences and workshops run by recognized educational institutions as contributing towards members' CPD obligations under RIAI policy. To this end each conference participant will be issued with a Department of Architectural Technology and Conservation conference attendance certificate which can be added to each individuals CPD record for the purposes of meeting their CPD obligations.
SCHEDULE FOR THE FEBRUARY 24 CONFERENCE
COFFEE AND REGISTRATION:
Restaurant
1.00pm - 2.00pm
Gather in restaurant for coffee and registration
OPENING PLENARY SESSION:
Lecture theatre 259
2.00pm - 3.30pm
Welcome and introduction to running order of the conference
Speaker: Cormac Allen
Head of Department of Architectural Technology and Conservation
Proposed DIT education programmes in architectural technology, including forthcoming
part time honours degree in architectural technology.
Speaker: Cormac Allen
Head of Department of Architectural Technology and Conservation
Architectural Technology: Challenges of practice and professional representation
Speakers: Patrick Daly, Dip Arch Tech, RIAI (tech)
Denise Germaine, Dip Arch Tech, MCIAT
Architectural Technology: The legislative environment
Speakers: Various TBC
Architectural Technology: DIT perspective
Speaker: DIT President, Professor Brian Norton
Discussion
WORKSHOP SESSION: Various small class rooms
3.30pm - 4.30pm
Delegates to meet in small group workshop sessions under chairmanship of
Graduate Network committee members to discuss issues raised in plenary
session. Refreshments served in each class room.
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION: Lecture theatre 259
4.30pm - 5.30pm
Report on discussions by various working groups followed by general discussion.
Chairman: Martin Meehan Dip Arch Tech, MCIAT
5.30pm - 6.00pm
Proposed objectives of Graduate Network committee. Agreement on structure
and terms of reference. Election of committee. Agree date for next Graduate
Network conference.
SOCIAL FUNCTION:
Restaurant and student concourse area
6.00pm - 9.00pm
Buffet supper and wine reception for all delegates.
DIT ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE NETWORK COMMITTEE
Following the highly successful 2005 Architectural Technology Graduate Network conference last March, a committee was formed to develop the DIT Architectural Technology Graduate Network contacts database and to organise the follow-on 2006 conference.
The committee has been meeting on a regular basis and has established a communication network based on Year Leaders for each DIT graduate year from 1967, and Office Leaders for architectural practices both in Dublin and throughout Ireland. This communication network will be used to circulate information on architectural technology to all DIT graduates, to graduates of Waterford IT, Cork IT, Limerick IT, Carlow IT, and to graduates of other colleges and institutions.
DIT Graduates Network committee: From left: Paul Maher 1992, Donal Murphy 1984, Nuala Patton 1999, Carol Spollen 2003, Dave Palmer 1997, Emmett O'Connell 1989, Cathy O'Keeffe 1981, Robbie Coan 1982, David Knight 1988 (Not in photo: Cormac Allen 1983, Maire Crean 1977, Patrick Daly 1988, Des Warren 1990)
The draft objectives of the Graduate Network as agreed by the committee are as follows:
Provide leadership in mobilising architectural technologists nationally to develop a representative body which addresses the professional needs of architectural technologists in Ireland Encourage the development of sister architectural technology graduate networks for Limerick IT, Cork IT and Waterford IT Provide a national forum in which DIT architectural technology graduates can meet both socially and professionally Work with the Department of Architectural Technology in the development of an honours degree programme in architectural technology which will be open to all architectural technology graduates.
