IPAV Course:fine and decorative art certificate course. Lectures held two evenings per week. February 2007. IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Contact: 01-6785685 or www.ipav.ie.
Meeting: national executive council. February 16th, 4.30pm, IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6785685.
Meeting: education advisory committee. February 17th, 9.45am, IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6785685.
Engineers Ireland
CPD: project management - module one (in conjunction with Centre for Project Management, UL). February 7th and 8th, Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
Seminar: soft ground engineering seminar. February 15th and 16th, Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone, Co Westmeath.
CPD: chairing meetings. February 21st, Clyde Rd, Dublin 4.
CPD: roads - procurement, contract and construction. February 21st and 22nd, Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co Offaly.
CPD: financial training for engineers. February 26th and 27th, Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: six sigma - techie brekkie. February 27th, Ulster Bank, George's Quay, Dublin 2.
CPD: technical report writing. March 1st and 2nd, Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
CPD: project management - module two (in conjunction with Centre for Project Management, UL). March 14th and 15th, Clyde Road, Dublin 4.
Bray Institute of Further Education
Courses: interior design. FETAC level five one-year course. BTEC higher national diploma - two-year course with progression to degree.
Course: furniture design. FETAC level five.
Course: garden design. FETAC level five.
Course: graphic design. BTEC higher national diploma.
Course: fashion design. FETAC level five one-year course. BTEC higher national diploma. Details: 01-2866233.
Irish Planning Institute
CPD: National Spatial Strategy and Atlantic corridor - post new NDP, 2007. Today. Registration: 2pm. Cost: €30 (members), €120 (non-members). Clarion Hotel, Steamboat Quay, Limerick. Contact: 01-8788630 or email info@irishplanninginstitute.ie
Dinner: mid-west branch, IPI inaugural dinner. Today, 7.30pm. IPI members attending the CPD are invited. Sinergie Restaurant, Clarion Hotel. Fee: €40 per person.
Institute of Project Management
Course: diploma in applied project management. Cork, Dublin and Galway. Email: info@projectmanagement.ie or www.projectmanagement.ie. Details: 01-6614677.
Senior College Dún Laoghaire
Morning course: health and safety. One-year course leading to higher national certificate.
Morning course: interior design - one, two and three years. RHODEC Assoc diploma, higher national diploma, progression to degree at DIT.
Course: garden design for one or two years, leading to higher national diploma.
Course: auctioneering (IPAV), two years for certificate. Two-year progression to degree.
Course: landscape design (one or two years) for higher national diploma. Details: 1800-2655343 or www.scd.ie.
Dublin Civic Trust
CPD course: conservation engineering. Dealing with problems, solutions and approaches to historic and older buildings. Course leader: Ian Hume. February 13th, 4 Castle Street, Dublin 2. Cost: €175. Details: 01-4756911.
CPD course: services in period houses and historic properties. Course leader: Peter Lawson Smith. March 26th, 4 Castle Street, Dublin 2. Details: 01-4756911. Cost: €175.
Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Lecture: "He will be well watched - TN Deane and the birth of architectural conservation in Ireland". Speaker: Dr Jenifer Ni Ghradaigh, NUI Cork. 63 Merrion Square, Dublin 2. Details: 01-6761749.
Exhibition: RIAI travelling scholarship 2006. Projects include a response to the Kyoto fines Ireland is facing, dealing with urban burial grounds, as well as efficient links between various modes of mobility.
College of Further Education Dundrum
Course: interior design. FETAC level five.
Course: floristry and garden design. FETAC level five. Details: 01-2985412/01-2951376.
Organic Centre
Courses: planting a small woodland with Steven Meyen from Teagasc. February 3rd, 10am to 5pm. Cost: €60.
Courses: the complete organic garden course with Ingrid Foley, 10-day course commencing February 3rd, 10am to 5pm. Cost: €680.
Course: from field to garden with Jim Cronin. February 10th, 10am to 5pm. Cost: €85.
Course: introduction to alternative energy with Peter Schneider. February 17th, 10am to 5pm. Cost: €85. Details: 071-9854338 or email organiccentre@eircom.net or www.theorganiccentre.ie.
Homebond
Seminars: right on-site seminars. Update on building regulations and new construction technology. Today at 8pm, Breaffy House Hotel, Castlebar.
National College of Ireland
Course: "Property ladder" property investors course. Starts February 12th until April 2nd. Times: 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Course director: Mary FitzGerald. Fee: €190 for eight-week course. Details: 01-6787916 or book online at www.MaryFitzGeraldPR.ie.
Society of Chartered Surveyors
Event: annual dinner. February 8th, Burlington Hotel, Dublin 4. Contact: Gwen Wilson. Tel: 01-6765500.
Lecture: "The GCCC new consultants appointment documents" by Niav O'Higgins, partner with Arthur Cox. Today, 6pm. Davenport Hotel. Details: Margaret Kelly at 01-676 5500.
Organisations should send entries to Mary Hetherington before noon on Thursday for inclusion the following Thursday. Telephone 01 675 8000; fax: 01 675 8037;
e-mail: mhetherington@irish-times.ie
