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Elise Sorge
Illawarra Building Designer takes out prestigious awards at the BDAA National Design Awards – Student Design (Open) Category

Develop Your Creativity And Turn It Into Your Career………….Become a Building Designer

In the Diploma of Building Design you will learn strategies for creative thinking and the development of concepts, which will be applied to a series of design projects. This fully accredited qualification is the first step towards growing your career in the building design industry. ABOUT THE DIPLOMA Built Form Design Academy has designed the […]

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Armchair Traveller: The d’Arenberg Cube

Armchair Traveller: The d’Arenberg Cube  Address: 58 Osborn Road, McLaren Vale, South Australia Architect: ADS Architects Website: www.darenberg.com.au/ A few weeks ago BFDA visited the d’Arenberg cube in the McLaren Vale. An iconic building set within the landscape of the wineries. The concept is a glass encased steel and concrete structure that looks a lot […]

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What lies beneath……………

What lies beneath….. Just about every suburb has building works going on at the moment. Renovations, new houses, granny flats or even the big monster size apartment buildings. There seems to be little in between! As a budding building designer, all this building work is a great opportunity to see what is going on underneath […]

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Saving your work in a digital world (especially relevant for BIM CAD or users of other heavy memory reliant applications)..

Saving your work in a digital world (especially relevant for BIM CAD or users of other heavy memory reliant applications).. In your working career, either while studying or in the workplace, it is inevitable that at some point you will lose work that you are currently working on. In our industry (heavily dependent on the […]

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Your Terminated! Will A Robot Replace You?

Last year (2017) Russia announced that a humanoid robot with artificial intelligence (AI), would be sent into space. When the media heard that this robot could also shoot with both hands, it was reported as a real-life terminator. This got the staff at BFDA thinking. ‘YOUR TERMINATED’, are two terrifying words to most people in […]

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What do you do when the LEP and the DCP give conflicting information?

The Local Council prepares documents to regulate development in their local government areas and the instruments with which they do this are the LEP and DCP. Although both are prepared by council the LEP is reviewed by State Government and is very strictly applied. The LEP provides a framework for allocating zones to land– i.e., […]

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