30 July 2018

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Congratulations to all those worthy winners of the 2018 Tasmanian Architecture Chapter. I can safely say we held a very unique and successful awards night, courtesy of our creative directors, Bek Verrier and Liz Walsh, and the hard work of our chapter staff – thank you all. Our awards insert in the Sunday Tasmanian meant a run of 42,000 copies went out to the public the next morning, and with the People’s Choice Prize announced last week our state awards activities are done for 2018. I look forward to success for Tasmanian practices on the national awards stage later in the year. 

 

I would like to draw members attention to the following vacancies in our committees: Education Committee – general committee member vacancy; Practice Committee Chair – to commence at the start of 2019; and the Acumen Review Panel – which is a national panel. Please remember this is your organisation, and to ensure your opinion is heard and your experience and insights shared I encourage you to step up and fill these positions. I particularly encourage those of you who have been in practice for a few years now, so that we can reflect the diversity of the profession and benefit from new contributors. The Chapter is in the process of creating terms of reference for the committees and we will keep you informed as we introduce them. Please send an expression of interest to Jen Nichols, or give the office a call for further information, and encourage your peers to do the same as well.

 

If you would like to keep up with the detail of committee work, here is the link to monthly one-paragraph reports submitted to Chapter Council, giving a synopsis of what the committees are currently covering.

 

I would like to draw your attention to the draft of the City of Hobart Transport Strategy 2018-2030, recently issued to the public. It is an easy read, so please do make yourselves familiar with its content and more importantly please send comments by e-mail with ‘COMMENT: The City of Hobart Draft Transport Strategy 2018 – 2030’ in the subject line, to Jen Nichols for us to include in feedback to the CoH.

 

City heights are in the news again and we look forward to the official release of City of Hobart Council determinations in this regard in due course.

 

Finally, with the winter solstice behind us and increasing daylight hours soon tempting us out on other activities, now might be the time to concentrate on upping your CPD points for the year and ensuring you keep accurate records for any future audit of your activities by the Board of Architects. The new audio-visual equipment is up and running, allowing us to offer livestream for all CPD events from the Hobart presentation. These recordings will be available for two weeks after the session and can be booked online in the same manner as face-to-face CPD events. As ever, the Chapter has a swag of excellent CPD on offer, still at the affordable price of $15, thanks to our Tasmanian Government grant.

Yvette Breytenbach RAIA
President, Tasmanian Chapter,
Australian Institute of Architects