Be an Architect for a Day Workshop – Volunteers Needed

Be an Architect for a Day Workshop – Volunteers Needed Date: 31 July 2014 Time: 9:30am – 2:30pm Venue: Urban Management Zone (Previously Priority Zone) Address: 77 Monty Naicker Road Event Details: The KZNIA is hosting a workshop known as “Be an Architect for a Day”, which has proved to be very successful in the […]

January 2013 KZNIA Letter from the President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members We have approached the end of January 2013 and 2012 has been confined to the history books. We trust that you had some rest over the Builders’ Closure and wish you well for the year ahead. We sadly bade farewell to Alan Lipman a few days ago – Alan was a luminary in South […]

February 2013 KZNIA Letter from the President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members Tomorrow we head into March and I trust that business is looking bright for you in 2013. The KZNIA offices and Boardroom have been busy over the past weeks with Part XA courses and Ken Howie’s PPE course for Architects in Training preparing to sit their SACAP examination. There is also preparation for […]

March 2013 Letter from the KZNIA President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members March 2013 These month ends seem to come around quickly nowadays and perhaps it is merely a positive sign of being busy. As usual, there has been a lot of action around the KZNIA.  As examples, Lindsay Napier and the Heritage Task Group have been very proactive in their work with AMAFA – […]

April 2013 – Letter from KZNIA President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members The end of April has arrived and with tomorrow being 1 May (Worker’s Day) we should all reflect on the meaning of this day for ourselves and for our staff whose efforts have made our architecture what it is. With the increasing demands for Architects in seeing our projects through from conception to […]

May 2013 – Letter from KZNIA President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members It is with sadness that we record the passing of Professor (Pattabi) Raman, former Architecture Professor at Wits and UFS, and more recently Head at CPUT in Cape Town. Professor Raman served as a KZNIA Awards juror in 2009, and some will recall his keynote speech at the KZNIA Education conference held a few years ago at the Durban University of Technology. He was […]

June 2013 – Letter from the KZNIA President – Kevin Bingham

Dear Members I have just returned from a week away in Pretoria on a CPD Course offering, hosted by the University of Pretoria and the CSIR, entitled “Architectural & Engineering Approaches to Airborne Infection Control”. The 5 day course was intensive and included a visit to the Modimolle (Nylstroom) TB Hospital, designed by Rudolf Roos and his […]

December 2013 Letter from KZNIA President – Kevin Bingham

Dear KZNIA Friends I clearly recall my welling emotions while standing at the arrival of Nelson Mandela at the opening address of the XIII World AIDS Conference at the ICC in Durban in 2000. It is a similar emotion that I get when singing our National Anthem and one that I again have experienced listening to […]

SACAP – From the desk of the Registrar

Dear Registered Persons – Professionals and Candidates My name is Marella O’Reilly and I would like to introduce myself to you as the new Registrar of the Council effective 10 March 2014.  This introductory letter took a while in coming to you, as my first 90 days in office has been filled with many urgent and […]

SACAP – Invitation to serve on Committees of SACAP

Invitation to serve on Committees of SACAP The South African Council for the Architectural Profession (“SACAP”) which is a statutory body established in terms of section 2 of the Architectural Profession Act No 44 of 2000 (“the Act”), hereby invites applications from suitably qualified and experienced professionals to serve on SACAP Committees. Investigating Committee The […]