Related Intersections

1989 – 1990

I became involved in lecturing to the Australian Institute of Architects (AIA) NSW Chapter in their Professional Development Program Documentation course in the subject Methodology and Programming.

In 1997

I was a member of the Jury Panel for the ACT Chapter Awards and later on I was again a Jury Panel member for the architects working in the Wollongong  area.

In 2005

I received advice from the Architects Accreditation Council of Australia (AACA) ACT I was accepted as an examiner for the registration of architects and as an examiner both in the ACT and NSW. For some years in NSW and the ACT I took mainly the viva voce component of the exam.

In 2004

I joined the newly constituted Urban Design Chapter of the Planning Institute of Australia (PIA). It was formerly the Royal Australian Planning Institute but they were quick to let go of the ‘Royal’ bit. The PIA had opened its admission doors to suitable members by establishing Chapters in specialist areas such as Social Planning, Urban Design and other areas.

In 1993

After completion of my Master of Environmental Studies Degree I became a member of the Environment Institute of Australia (EIA). In many ways and of the other professional Institutes I gave time to, this one was to me the most important from any point of view. I became an examiner of the EIA Certification Panel as well as holding a number of the Institute’s Executive posts.

In 1995

I was appointed NSW Councillor for the EIA and attended the Institute conference in Brisbane and  in the following year, whilst carrying on as the NSW Councillor, I was asked at the end of that year to join the EIA Executive which I did.

In 1998

I continued as the ACT Councillor for the EIA and also on the Executive, and attended the Annual EIA Conference in Sydney, and carried on as a member of the Earth Foundation.

In 1999

A visit to Hobart in December 1999 included the delivering of a paper at the EIA National Conference. The paper was entitled ‘Urban Management and Associated Environmental Issues in Asian Megacities’.

In 1979

I received several commissions from the Commonwealth Heritage Commission to evaluate many individual buildings for possible listing by the Commission.

In 1991

I delivered a lecture on Glass in Architecture to the ACT BSF which was later published in the Building Economist. Vol 3 No 2 September 1991.

In 1997

I became a member of Canberra’s Urban Design Forum an informal alliance of local planners active in organising informative conferences.

In 2004

I became a member of the Major Events committee of the Architectural Association of Australia (AAA) a Sydney–based initiative sponsored by BlueScope Steel. The aim was to make accessible architectural projects to interested members of the public. This worked well.

In 1976

I was elected to the Board of Environmental Studies (University of Adelaide) as a student representative. In that year I organised a series  regular radio broadcasts on environmental issues with the ABC at the Adelaide Station of 5AN. It was an interview format and individual students spoke about the environmental concerns of their  particular discipline.

In 2005 to 2010

Elsewhere and referred to in detail in the section Writing and Illustration, Rodney Jensen and I started and maintained an online journal called  Cityscape covering a wide range of architectural, planning, environmental, infrastructure, social and economic themes.

In 1997

I was invited to become a member of the Urban Design Advisory Committee ACT (UDAC) which was established to provide advice to the ACT Minister of Planning  on all significant proposed new works.

From 2003

I was invited to be a member of the North Sydney Council Urban Design Review Panel and continued in this involvement up until 2010. It is worth remembering that North Sydney Council is the next largest Council area after Sydney so that alone makes it a hugely complex area.

1990

DEM was a member of the University of New South Wales Building Research Centre trading under the name of Unisearch and the particular research being undertaken at that time was building façade engineering. I was actively involved in Centre during that period. Our submission to Government for research funding did not succeed.

1995

I was a member of subcommittee BD/64/3 Planning and Sub-Division being one of three subcommittees, focused on building in fire zone areas, the other two subcommittees were concentrating their enquiries on the nature of material combustibility and also constructional standards. Our aim was to get our joint findings as a reference document to the Building Code of Australia. This did not happen.

1995

I was invited to participate in the consultative discussions in the drafting of the development of the: Interim Australian Natural Heritage Charter for the Conservation of Places of Natural Heritage Significance which achieved its objective.