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LSAA 2008 Symposium (1 Day)
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LSAA 2009 Conference
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ACASPA 2008 Expo and Convention
Townsville June 8-9 2008 |
Australasian Structural Engineering Conference 2008 
Melbourne June 25-27 2008
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LSAA 2007 Conference and Design Awards"Lightweight Architecture"- Stretching our Boundaries Internationally Thursday and Friday October 25th and 26th 2007. This two day event was held at the Crowne Plaza 2807 Gold Coast Highway, Surfers Paradise. Program Thursday Oct 25
08.00 Registration Desk Opens
Session 1 "Large Scale Projects"
09.00 Opening LSAA President: Kourosh Kayvani
09.10 Wembley Stadium - Kourosh Kayvani (Connell Wagner)
09.35 Sharm el Sheikh Airport - Joseph Dean (Wade Consulting)
10.00 RAS Melbourne Showgrounds Grand Pavilion
Peter Lim (Tensys)
10.25 Morning Tea / coffee
Session 2 "Bubblism"
10.55 Keynote Address Chris Bosse
(Director, Visionary Architects, formerly with PTW)
Computational Formfinding of Natural Organic Structures
and Realized Projects including the Watercube with PTW
11.55 Structural and Environmental Design of the Bejing Water Cube
Mark Arkinstall (Arup)
12.20 Lunch
Session 3 "Local and OS Contracting Issues"
13.40 Austrade's Global Network - how to use it and the value it can
bring to your business.
Jeff Turner (Austrade)
14.00 Membrane Structures - Installation Techniques and Solutions
Dean Peters (OzRig)
14.20 Kuwait Airport VIP Canopy - Ian Norrie (VDM)
14.40 Construction of Local and International Projects using ETFE
Angus Macleod (Vector)
15.00 Silicone Coated Glass Fabrics for Tensile Structures
James Dar (Sila Australia)
15.20 Afternoon Tea / coffee
Session 4 "The Fire and Material Issues"
15.40 Fire Tests and Developments in Europe
Brian O'Flaherty (Indtex)
16.00 A Regulator's Delemma: Case Study
John Shaw (Building Commission, Vic)
16.20 Flame Retardancy: Disambiquation
Paul Knox (Innova)
16.40 Fabric Life: Expectations and Experiences
Chris Tattersall (Tattersall Engineering)
17.00 Day Closure and Announcements
17.15 LSAA AGM (Members)
18.30 Pre Dinner Drinks, LSAA Dinner & Design Awards
Friday October 26 200708.30 Registration Desk Opens 09.00 Session 5 "Local Projects" Invited Address Warrick Chalmers (Senior Associate HOK Sport Architects) Gold Coast Stadium Design Concepts and other Local Projects 09.45 Stretching the boundaries of membrane and film: Robina Stadium & Clarke Quay - Peter Lim (Tensys) 10.20 Session 6: Site Tour Buses to take attendees to the new Robina Stadium Tour made possible with the assistance of Watpac Limited & Major Sports Facilities Authority Queensland Government. 12.30 Lunch Session 7 "Design Skills and Knowledge" 14.00 Project X - Experiences of Multidisciplinary Arch/Eng/COFA Teaching Zora Vrcelj (University NSW) 14.20 A briefing on the European Masters program; Tensinet, LSA and Ferrari study workshops 14.30 Low Environmental Impact Fabric Structures Pierre Renard (Ferrari) 14.50 Wind Engineering for Lightweight Structures Tony Rofail (Windtech Consultants). 15.10 Afternoon Tea / coffee Session 8 "Industry Issues" 15.40 A look at where we have come from and current issues Peter Kneen (LSAA) 16.00 Panel Session on Industry Issues including BCA changes, fire tests, education 16.50 Conference wrap up 17.00 Conference Closure |
 
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LSAA 2006 Symposium
Life Begins at 25 A half day seminar to celebrate the 25 years of the MSAA / LSAA Afternoon of Thursday 16th November 2006
Brochure and Registration (PDF)
It is planned to have presentations covering some recent significant projects in Australia and overseas. An opportunity will be given to present steps taken by the committee to see the LSAA into its new "era". The Keynote speaker is Croz Crosling Associate from Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners who will speak about the spectacular Southern Cross Station at Spencer Street, Melbourne and other recent Grimshaw projects. LSAA members will be given the opportunity to network at the Symposium as well as at the 2005/06 AGM to be held immediately prior to the main presentations. Attendees will have the opportunity to join the committee and speakers for dinner afterwards.
You are invited to register to attend by returning the details on the
Brochure and Registration Form (PDF)
LSAA 2007 will be a larger event incorporating the LSAA Design Awards - more details later.
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