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 of experience [...]

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 [...]

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) and Mark Frisby [...]

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 was for presentation and graphics we’d have had a [...]

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.

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 will take place at their [...]

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 clarity on a complex and controversial issue. It [...]

Supplier Talks Melbourne

AILDM is pleased to present the fourth in its 2008 Victorian Series of Seminars to improve the skills of all involved in landscape design & management

Venue: Darebin Business Centre, 2 Wingrove Street, Alphington
Plenty of parking and very close to station

Saturday 21st June – 9.30 UNTIL 12.30

Nextgen and AILDM

The nursery and garden industry in NSW is full of enthusiastic, successful young people who will shape the future of the industry. NGINA has now launched a similar forum to that initiated by the Victorian Association, and formed the NextGen group for 18 to 35 year old to meet, exchange ideas and work on [...]

Welcome New Board Members

We are pleased to announce that AILDM now has three National Council members in Victoria and Queensland

Bev Read – Victoria (continuing board member)
Ruth Czermak – Victoria (new board member)
Ted Maguire – Queensland (new board member)

As well as being closely involved with all decisions made by the AILDM National Council they will be looking to involve [...]