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RIBA Gloucestershire is pleased to announce our first ever workshop on Mental Health and Wellbeing. Mental health includes our emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. It affects how we think, feel and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others and make choices. Our panel of prolific experts will educate us on the tools and intervention practices which can be used to promote wellbeing, support staff and colleagues, and access appropriate external support if needed.

With climate emergency on many local councils agenda, now is the time more than ever for architects to grapple with low to zero energy housing. Come and join the RIBA Somerset Passivhaus event presenting a comprehensive insight into implementing Passivhaus in a practice followed by a variety of real case studies. You will hear presentations by experienced RIBA architects and a low energy consultant, all sharing their experience of Passivhaus in their projects.

Come and join us for another architecture movie night at Horts. Doshi: Architecture without adjectives (2009) A labour of love for its director, Premjit Ramachandran, this is an insightful and much needed portrait of the low cost housing pioneer and architect Balkrishna Doshi. Doshi has led the evolution of contemporary Indian architecture, interpreting the modernist ideals of his former boss, Le Corbusier, and working within the constraints of the local conditions of site, climate, and available technology.

This seminar will provide an understanding of the complex issues to consider when dealing with projects involving historic buildings and how conservation principles are applied throughout a project’s progress, from brief development through to completion.

The RIBA City CPD Club 2019 is designed to help you achieve your annual CPD requirements. Innovative schedule of seminars and workshops covering the mandatory RIBA Core Curriculum topics, the programme is delivered over four days, providing you with the flexibility to plan your annual CPD well in advance.

Looking at safety through specification and detailing by focussing on the principles of the Designer responsibilities and the importance of drawings and specifications in the delivery of a project, this seminar will analyse how the safe approach used at design stage can have an impact on the building when in use.

We have great pleasure inviting you to join us on a visit to Westcountry Stonemasons to look at Plymouth Limestone.

A great opportunity to visit Fort Bovisand before work begins on a new mixed use development.

By attending this seminar, you will gain increased awareness of key considerations in managing projects, including proactively managing risks, change and quality. This seminar will cover key project management principles and processes linked to the project lifecycle, communication, phases, scope and deliverables, alongside benefits and outcomes for clients and stakeholders.

We are excited to have Amin Taha to present the RIBA Cornwall and Cornwall Architectural Trust Summer lecture 2019 in partnership with Falmouth University.