IAVICourse: FÁS safe pass programme. One-day programme. Galway - September 6th (Galway Bay Hotel); Dublin - September 11th (39 Merrion Square); Carlow - September 20th (Seven Oaks Hotel); Sligo - September 25th (Clarion Hotel); Meath - October 4th (Ardboyne Hotel, Navan). Details: Noel O'Reilly at noel@iavi.ie.
IPAV
Course: bachelor of business in real estate - management and valuation (full-time route for students). Venue: Athlone Institute of Technology. Tel: 0906-424400 or email info@ait.ie.
Course: diploma in property management and valuation (full-time route for students). Venue: Cork College of Commerce. Tel: 021-4223803 or email pbrady@ccoc.ie.
Course: certificate in auctioneering and estate agency (full-time route for students). Venues: Dún Laoghaire Senior College (tel 01-2800385 or email info@scd.ie); Cork College of Commerce (tel 021-4223803 or email pbrady@ccoc.ie).
Course: diploma in fine and decorative arts (lectures held three days per week). Venue: IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6785685. Email: info@ipav.ie.
Course: certificate in auctioneering and estate agency (part-time route for mature students). Venues: institutes of technology in Athlone, Cork and Tallaght. Tel: 01-6785685. Email: info@ipav.ie.
Course: certificate in fine and decorative arts - part-time route for mature students (lectures held one evening per week). Venue: IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6785685. Email: info@ipav.ie.
Meeting: national executive council. September 14th, 4.30pm. IPAV Headquarters, 129 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01-6785685.
Irish Council for Social Housing
Conference: national conference 2007. September 25th-27th. Whites Hotel, Wexford town. Details: Catherine McGillycuddy at 01-6618334 or email catherine@icsh.ie or visit www.icsh.ie.
National Irish Safety Organisation
Course: safe pass training programme every Wednesday and Friday. Venues: National Irish Safety Organisation, A11 Calmount Park, Ballymount, Dublin 12; Artane Beaumont Recreation Centre, Kilmore Road, Artane, Dublin 5. Price: €120 plus €23 FÁS registration fee (NISO member) or €130 plus €23 FÁS registration fee (non-member). Email bookings@niso.ie or visit www.niso.ie.
Course: certificate in occupational health and safety (submitted for HETEC accreditation level six). October 9th until November 27th (each Tuesday from 2pm to 6pm). Course: manual handling instructors course. September 10th, 11th, 12th, 17th & 18th. Venue: National Irish Safety Association, A11 Calmount Park, Ballymount, Dublin 12. Fee: €1,295 (NISO member): €1,375 (non-members).
Course: manual handling instructors refreshers course. September 11th & 12th. Venue: National Irish Safety Organisation, A11 Calmount Park, Ballymount, Dublin 12. Fee: €455 (NISO members): €485 (non-members).
Course: occupational first aid refresher (one day). September 19th. Venue: National Irish Safety Organisation, A11, Calmount Park, Ballymount, Dublin 12. Fee: €240 (NISO members); €265 (non-members).
Course: occupational first aid (three-day course). September 25th, 26th & 27th. Venue: National Irish Safety Organisation, A11 Calmount Park, Ballymount, Dublin 12. Fee: €425 (NISO members) €525 (non-members). To reserve a place on any of the above courses email bookings@niso.ie, tel 01-4659760 or visit www.niso.ie.
Engineers Ireland
CPD: construction contract awareness, September 17th and 18th, Clyde Road, Dublin 2.
CPD: project management (module one) in conjunction with Centre for Project Management, UL). September 18th and 19th, Clyde Road, Dublin 2.
CPD: technical report writing. September 19th and 20th. Clyde Road, Dublin 2.
CPD: road maintenance, September 19th and 20th, Tullamore Court Hotel, Tullamore, Co Offaly.
CPD: project management - module one (in conjunction with Centre for Project Management, UL). September 25th and 26th, Clyde Road, Dublin 2.
CPD: project management - module one (in conjunction with Centre for Project Management, UL). September 25th and 26th, Clyde Road, Dublin 2.
CPD: MS project. September 27th, Springfield Hotel, Leixlip, Co Kildare.
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.
Morning course: health and safety - one-year course leading to higher national certificate.
Dún Laoghaire College of Further Education
Course: certificate in architectural technology and design.
Course: advanced cert in architectural technology and design.
Course: construction technology certificate. Details: 01-2809676 or www.dlcfe.ie.
Course: interior design. FETAC level five.
Course: floristry and garden design. FETAC level five. Mornings. All courses commence September 2007. Details: 01-2985412/01-2951376 or visit www.cfedundrum.com.
Senior College Dún Laoghaire
Course: interior design. One, two or three years, mornings option, RHODEC and higher national diploma qualifications, possible degree progression to DIT.
Course: garden design - two years to higher national diploma leading to one further year for degree at University of Gloucester.
Course: landscape design - two-year higher national diploma, leading to one further year for degree at University of Gloucester.
Course: auctioneering - two-year certificate (IPAV) leading to two further years for degree at University of West England.
Course: health and safety, one-year higher national certificate, two-year higher national diploma, mornings option. Details: 1800-265534, email info@scd.ie or www.scd.ie.
RIAI
Exhibition: Irish Architecture Awards 2007 Exhibition in Fáilte Ireland, West James Street, Westport, Co Mayo from September 4th until September 28th, 2007.
Exhibition: Into the Unknown. New paintings by Helen Blair. From September 1st until September 21st. RIAI, 8 Merrion Square, Dublin 2.
CPD: business of architecture. Eight-day intensive programme designed to develop business skills among practising architects with business or management responsibilities. Dates: October 5th and 19th. November 2nd, 16th and 30th, and January 18th and February 1st. DCUBS Centre for Executive Programmes, DCU. Places limited to 30. Closing date for bookings is September 14th. Contact: 01-7008106 or email ruth.finnegan@dcu.ie.
Lectures: RIAI/UCD lectures series. Three CPD modules available. Architectural practice - September 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th. Construction legislation - October 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th. Procurement and contracts - November 12th, 19th, and 26th, and December 3rd and 10th. Bookings: louise.bannon@ucd.ie.
CPD: project management in the built environment. A three-day course designed by Integrated Project Management for RIAI members, associates, architectural technicians and the employees of registered RIAI practices. September 11th, 18th and 25th. Contact: tharte@riai.ie.
CPD: health and safety - designing for safety. Details: Teresa Harte at tharte@riai.ie or 01-6691472.
Organic Centre
Event: organic fair to consist of a walk and workshop on wild herbs, kids programme featuring healthy school lunch boxes; women's day in conjunction with the North Leitrim Women's Resource Group and women's initiatives from Fermanagh; harvest celebration of 12 community gardens. September 8th to 16th. Details: The Organic Centre, tel 071-9854338 or email organiccentre@eircom.net or visit www.theorganiccentre.ie.
National Botanic Gardens
Exhibition: Sculpture in Context. Large outdoor sculpture exhibition with sculptors from Ireland, US, UK, Netherlands, Hungary, France, Canada, Finland and Estonia. September 6th until October 20th, 2007 at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin 9. Details: Ana Duncan at 087-6258258 or email anaduncan@eircom.net. ...
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
