Native Grass Pasture Management Session

Saturday 27 November

Come to this session led by representative from the Department of Primary Industries to learn more about managing native pastures. Native grasses are often overlooked or regarded as inferior quality compared to exotic grasses for pasture; however many native grasses provide comparable food value and tolerate grazing well. They can

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FYTOGREEN AWARDED VICTORIAN DESALINATION PLANT GREEN ROOF CONTRACT

FYTOGREEN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD has been awarded a $4.3 million contract to supply the biggest green roof in Australia for the Victorian Desalination Project located at Wonthaggi . The project will generate employment in the local area, where Fytogreen will employ 12 staff and source plants from the Australian Ecosystems nursery.  Plant cuttings and

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Landscape Designers & Estimators

Melbourne Landsculpting is a landscaping design and construction company offering a broad range of premium landscaping services in both residential and commercial sectors. We are currently looking to expand our team and are seeking suitably qualified individuals with experience in landscape design and estimation to work part time (i.e. work hours and days negotiable,

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Compost and Worm Farm Workshop

Nillumbik Shire Council (VIC) is holding a compost and worm farm workshop this Saturday 23 May as part of their Environmental Events Program:

Do you need some additional tips or are just starting up your compost or worm farm? Wendy and Ross Mather will run a workshop sharing all their secrets from 25 years

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AILA Victoria President on The Victorian Fires

SPECIAL UPDATE from the AILA Victoria President on The Victorian Fires

The Victorian community is dealing with the worst natural disaster to
hit the state – and the fires are still burning. The extraordinary death
toll is only one indicator of the devastation.

People have lost their lives, friends and family as well as homes, cars,
places of employment, schools and community facilities. As noted in a
recent national communiqué, the membership has been personally touched
by the loss of one of our members and most of her immediate family.

The death of Jacinta Bartlett, her husband Gary and daughter to the
fires is terrible. Her oldest daughter (who I believe is 13) is in
hospital recovering from burns (I also believe she has recently come out
of intensive care and has been moved to the burns unit which is
encouraging).

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Rain Bird Intelligent Use of Water Summit

Rain Bird, in partnership with Smart Approved WaterMark, will conduct its tenth ‘Intelligent Use of Water Summit’ on Thursday 19 March, 2009, in Melbourne.

The program for the event will consist of a morning panel followed by lunch and then several afternoon breakout sessions:

• Water-efficient landscape design: Led by Chris Bennett (Irrigation Australia)

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NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2008

AILDM NATIONAL STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION 2008

Results 1st     Sheree Grant – Kurri Kurri TAFE NSW 2nd     Julian Bombardiere – Ryde TAFE NSW 3rd     Simone Cooke – NMIT Victoria

Inaugural Allan Correy Student Design Award – Simone Cooke – NMIT Victoria

Judges Comments

This year’s standard of presentation was generally much higher. If the competition

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Collaboration in Urban Design – Planning Week

AILA Victoria invites AILDM Members to a breakfast discussion “Collaboration in Urban Design” at the magnificent Birrarung Marr next Thursday 16 October – all monies raised will be donated to Breast Cancer Network Australia.

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SPONSOR SEMINAR – ECO OUTDOOR

14 OCTOBER – Melbourne Sponsor Seminar – Eco Outdoor How to Specify High Quality and Exciting Paving and Walling products

Hayden Dyt, Victorian Business Manager from Eco Outdoors will take us through the ins and outs of specifying to achieve a high quality project using a range of paving and walling products.

The event

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VICTORIAN SEMINAR SERIES CONTINUES

AILDM Seminar Series – Melbourne 19 July, 2008

Members and Students Free, Non-members $20 PLEASE REGISTER AND PAY IF REQUIRED PRIOR TO EVENT (registration free is refundable upon membership application) Topic One: SPECIFYING TIMBER FROM THE CERTIFIED FOREST Challenges and Opportunities for Design Professionals

This presentation aims to provide design professionals

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