Technical Meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month from February to October. In November we have an Annual Dinner to celebrate the end of the year.

Meetings are held at Box Hill Golf Club and begin with an optional dinner followed by a short discussion on ACSEV general issues and one or more technical presentations. The meetings commence at 6.00 p.m. with drinks, followed by dinner at 6.30 p.m. The technical presentations commence at 8.00 p.m.

The aim of meetings is to promote education and technical discussion, encourage networking between professional colleagues and to further our continuing professional education in an informal forum. Previous meetings have covered topics such as -

• Timber Structures
• Cold Formed Steel Framing
• Plastic Design of Steel Structures
• High Strength Concrete and Associated Concrete Adhesives
• Profession Indemnity Insurance and Risk management
• Site Investigation using Seismic Techniques
• Design Wind Speeds for Temporary Structures
• Soil Paramaters and Retaining Wall Design
• Waterproofing of Structures
• Structural Design Software
• Ramset Structural Anchors
• Waffle Slab Design and Detailing
• Tall Timber Structures
• Structural Engineering Failure - the role of the human factor

We also organise Design Workshops once a year, typically running from midday to mid-evenings, incorporating several expert speakers and in-depth design details. Lunch and dinner are included in the cost of these events.

Previous Workshop topics have included -

• AS/NZS 4600 Design of Light Guage Cold-Formed Steel Framing
• Fire Design
• Timber Structures, including portal frames.
• Basement Wall Retantion Systems
• All About Concrete - Reinforced and Pre-Stressed Concrete Design

Technical Meetings and Workshops are advertised on this website a few weeks before each event and members will be notified by email when they are open for registration.