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The CPD events listed below our available online for you to complete in your own time - there is no expiry date.
We will collate the details of those who have successfully completed an event during the month on the last day of the month and then generate and publish the CPD certificate on the ePortal within 14 days.
Our CPD events are categorized in terms of the ten competencies as published by SACAP. Click on the competency below to see the available CPD events for a specific competency.
1. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
The study of architectural acoustics is a three‐dimensional endeavor. Sound moves in Cartesian space, in real rooms, and through planes that typically don’t precisely align with section and plan cuts.
But architectural acoustics also maintains the three dimensions loudness, frequency, and time, which, for reader ownership of subject content, must be evaluated simultaneously. Thus, the study of architectural acoustics is itself an act of architecture—and architectural acoustics, as discussed in this event, sits under the broader umbrella of design
CPD Points: 0.5
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 450.00
Other professionals / guests = R 500.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Building Regulations in South Africa do not require houses to be designed so that they comply with specific requirements for the elderly or differently-abled.
Our society is getting on in years. Increasing life expectancies accompanied by a drop in births are leading to a drastic shift in our age structure – a process that calls for new strategies and responses in a great variety of areas. Housing construction, too, must react with new and intelligent solutions
CPD Points: 0.4
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 360.00
Other professionals / guests = R 400.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
2. ENVIRONMENTAL RELATIONSHIPS
The second edition of SANS 10400-XA was published in 2021 and is now required to be complied with. We will take you through the deemed-to-satisfy requirements with practical examples to show compliance on drawings.
CPD Points: 0.3
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 270.00
Other professionals / guests = R 300.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Building Control = Free
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
6. ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY, THEORY AND PRECEDENT
During this event you will stroll through the temples of the Greeks and Romans, marvel at the soaring spires of medieval Christian cathedrals,stand astonished before the graceful minarets of the Blue Mosque in the ancient city of Istanbul, and gaze in wonder at the Borobudur Buddhist temple in Indonesia. You will hear about saints and sinners, heroes and heretics, and the great thinkers, visionaries, and mystics who shaped our spiritual landscape.
CPD Points: 0.75
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 675.00
Other professionals / guests = R 750.00
Architectural students = R 75.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Industrialists surveying the ongoing age of glass have sought to pinpoint their favored substance’s origin, adding layers of history, nostalgia, and even romance to their product line.
“Pompeii, awakened from a slumber of seventeen hundred years, has proved the existence of window glass in the days of the early emperors. In a small chamber, attached to the bathing room of a private dwelling-house, excavated about the year 1763, was found, ‘a window, which, . . . still held, when it was found, four panes of glass.
CPD Points: 0.6
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 540.00
Other professionals / guests = R 600.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
The formative and aesthetic power of the natural resistance inherent in a material is simply eliminated through substitution. This "virtual" approach to design makes building materials arbitrary in a synthesizing manner. Resistance is not tolerated. Layering and jointing, the simplicity of building turns out to be antagonistic. Being simple is not the same as being accommodating. Simplicity tends to baffle and amaze because it contains what is basic and renders it visible.
In this event a variety of positions against the background of the history of masonry will be explored. They are by no means intended as examples for contemporary building but allow us to draw conclusions with regard to our own perception. These conclusions, in turn, can alter our present perspectives, thereby making a contribution to current issues in designing masonry structures.
CPD Points: 0.4
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 360.00
Other professionals / guests = R 400.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Discussed in ths CPD event is the meaning of detail and the way in which Le Corbusier used it as a means to convey aspects of his wider architectural philosophy.
While being loaded with meaning, Le Corbusier’s details are astonishingly raw and risky. There is a great deal to be learned by examining his buildings on their own terms. Le Corbusier is for his ability to develop detailing systems that reproduced, on a small scale, the organizational ideas of the buildings themselves. Not only do they express the organizational ideas, they also express Le Corbusier’s philosophies which encompassed not just buildings, but his view of the entirety of existence.
In Towards New Architecture Le Corbusier posed the question ‘from what is emotion born?’: ‘From a certain harmony with the things that make up the site. From a plastic system that spreads its effects over every part of the composition. From a unity of idea that reaches from the unity of the materials used to the unity of the general contour’.
This ‘unity of idea’ is absolutely central to Le Corbusier’s work – a desperate attempt to create order in what he perceived to be a fragmented and chaotic world.
CPD Points: 0.7
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 630.00
Other professionals / guests = R 900.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
The art of the ancient Near East occupies a peculiar position, in that it brought into being many of the artistic categories which we take for granted. When, in Egypt or Mesopotamia, men built monumental temples or erected statues, or steles, they discovered modes of expression without precedent. These innovations in the field of art constitute but one aspect of a change by which prehistoric cultures were transformed into the first great civilizations.
CPD Points: 0.75
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 675.00
Other professionals / guests = R 750.00
Architectural students = R 75.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Early architecture had two main functions:
1.to consolidate security and power;
2.to please the gods.
The richer the society, the more important these functions became.
The story of early architecture, that is Neolithic, Sumerian, Egyptian, Minoan and Ancient Greek, is discussed in this event.
CPD Points: 0.75
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 675.00
Other professionals / guests = R 750.00
Architectural students = R 75.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Malgrave is the author of the book " From Object to Experience " which forms the basis of this CPD event. According to Sarah Robonsin " no one could deny that architects are essentially makers. We create the plans that, in the complex collaboration that making involves, become buildings, artifacts, and cities. We draw boundaries, lay down lines, define paths along which our daily lives unfold. The grooves of habit are deepened along the routes suggested by the material world, and it is we who arrange, organize, and transform that physical domain. Yet how exactly do we arrive at the declaration that architects make culture? Is culture something higher, set apart from the matter of walls, roofs, paths, and streets? Or, is culture the amalgam of myriad forces—the climate of place, the economic and social affordances offered by light and topography, a compound of collective human habits—those very habits that we have a hand in directing? "
CPD Points: 1.0
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 900.00
Other professionals / guests = R 1 000.00
Architectural students = R 100.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
7. BUILDING SERVICES AND RELATED TECHNOLOGIES
lt has been recognised from the earliest times that drainage, whether natural or artificial, is essential to the health and comfort of mankind . . . ‘
There is evidence that at the Palace of Knossos in Crete a drainage system existed before 1500 BC . . . Excavations have revealed that stone ducts and terracotta pipes conveyed rain water from roofs and terraces to a main drain and provision was made for flushing it with rainwater. Drainage pipes were tapered so that the narrowed end of one fitted into the next.
CPD Points: 0.40
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 360.00
Other professionals / guests = R 400.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Building Control = Free
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Artificial lighting greatly affects the way we perceive and realize spaces—it has always been used as an efficient element to accentuate certain aspects of architecture, create contrast, craft the desired atmosphere, and most importantly, illuminate!
CPD Points: 0.30
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 270.00
Other professionals / guests = R 300.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Building Control = Free
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
This event will focus on practical aspects like:
• What is cement?
• Different types of cement and when to use a certain type
• Concrete: types, mixtures, strength, slump-tests, application
• Mortar: bonding agent in masonry walls, plaster, mixtures, and finishes
CPD Points: 0.40
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 360.00
Other professionals / guests = R 400.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
The proper installation of all types of piping and piping materials, fittings, and fixtures for water systems is essential. This includes domestic cold and hot water, and also piping and fixtures for fire protection and firefighting water systems.Globally, water reuse has been recognized for decades as a key component of sustainable water management in water-scarce environments. However, water reuse has not been widely implemented in South Africa, largely due to negative public perceptions
In this event, water reticulation and reuse in residential buildings will be discussed as well as requirements set in SANS 10252-1, SANS 3088, and SANS 1752.
CPD Points: 0.7
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 630.00
Other professionals / guests = R 700.00
Architectural students = R 100.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
The National Building Regulations provide mandates to the SABS to create and publish a series of National Standards that may be used to satisfy the requirements of the said regulations.
This event will provide a synopsis of these requirements as it appear in the different parts of SANS 10400.
Note that this event needs 18.5 hours to complete.
CPD Points: 3.00
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 2 700.00
Other professionals / guests = R 3 000.00
Architectural students = R 300.00
Building Control = Free
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
Worldwide, no region is endowed with the productive capacity or financial resources needed to satisfy this demand. In the developing countries, requirements for shelter can be met only by using local building materials and relying on do-it-yourself construction techniques. Earth is the most important natural building material, and it is available in most regions of the world.
CPD Points: 0.60
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 540.00
Other professionals / guests = R 600.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
South African homeowners are considering gas in their homes as a result of the Increasing costs in electricity. People are unaware that there are specific regulations that must be complied with to ensure that insurance policies remain valid. According to the regulations that were introduced in 2009, all gas installations must have a Certificate of Conformity according to the Pressure Equipment Regulations that have been promulgated under the Occupation Health and Safety Act (No 85 of 1993).
CPD Points: 0.35
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 315.00
Other professionals / guests = R 350
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
8. CONTRACT DOCUMENTATION AND ADMINISTRATION
Based on Finsen's The Building Contract and McKenzie's Law of Building and Engineering Contracts and Arbitration, this event will focus on the following:
1. The Building Contract and the Law
2. Mediation, Adjudication, and Arbitration
3. Litigation
CPD Points: 0.4
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 360.00
Other professionals / guests = R 400.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
9. COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
The digital photographic medium is currently on an unprecedented roll, and ever-increasing numbers of people are beginning to experiment with the challenges and rewards of this most modern medium.
CPD Points: 0.5
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 450.00
Other professionals / guests = R 500.00
Architectural students = R 50.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register
10. OFFICE PRACTICE, LEGAL ASPECTS AND ETHICS
The event will focus on the following:
1. Statutory and regulatory context
2. The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (SACAP)
3. Voluntary Associations
4. Legal Context
5. Associated legislation
6. Establishing a Practice
7. Personnel
8. Finance Management
9. Risk Management
10. Quality Management Systems
11. Project Planning, Delivery, and Controls
12. Architectural Services
13. The Architectural Professional's Appointment
14. The Professional Team
15. Fees for Architectural Services
16. Statutory Submissions and Project Record Documentation
17. Litigation
18. Options for Dispute Resolution
CPD Points: 1.0
Costs:
SAIAT paid-up members = R 900.00
Other professionals / guests = R 1 000.00
Architectural students = R 100.00
Payments can be done via EFT, Yoco Gateway and Debicheck debit order - details on e-Portal when you register