LSAA 2020 Conference

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LSAA 2020 Conference POSTPONED

: 29 October 2023

The LSAA 2020 Conference and Design Awards were to be held in Melbourne at Swinburne from September 17-18 2020.

PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO COVID-19 THIS EVENT - in its traditional format - IS CANCELLED (as of March 31 2021)

It is planned that the postponed LSAA 2020 Design Awards will proceed with some changes to format.

Note: The Design Awards will enable completed innovative and lightweight structures completed since October 2018 to be entered in a number of Categories. The Awards are open to LSAA Members, Non-members as well as from International projects.

Revised details including entry requirements, will be finalized in April 2021. The anticipated closing date for entries would be mid August 2021.

About the LSAA 2020 Awards

: 29 October 2023

General Requirements and Categories

The LSAA 2020 Design Awards are for completed projects since October 2018.

Projects, or significant portions of a structure, may be located around the globe but the Awards are primarily intended for projects that have a substantial local contribution - such as design, fabrication or construction.

LSAA Members and non-members may enter (different fees apply for members, per entry for non-financial members TBC).

The Awards are also open to companies or individuals who may not have acted as the main designer, fabricator or installer. However only one entry per project will be considered.

The Awards will considered in the following categories:

Subcategories

Theme

The Theme for the LSAA 2020 Conference is Re-NEW, Re-IMAGINE, Re-CREATE

Conf Venue

The 2020 Conference Venue is at Swinburne University Melbourne

Conference Program

The LSAA Conferences run over two consecutive days with a gala Conference Dinner and Design Awards on the Thursday night.

There is a mix of invited Keynote speakers as well as speakers from the local industry.

Some sessions are devoted to recent projects and some are devoted to industry issues such as performance of fabric structures in fire.

Design Awards

The LSAA Design Awards are the Industry Premier Awards in the fields of lightweight structures and tensioned membrane structures.

There are seven categories and we are looking for projects that have been essentially completed since our previous Awards in October 2018.

Each project can only be entered once and we are looking for projects that have a significant input from the region.

Non-members of LSAA may also enter work and there is an entry fee (per project) with details supplied digitally using the forms.

Workshop

The LSAA often has conducted a technical workshop on the day before the main Conference.

There are normally some structured presentations as well as team building of models to satisfy a client brief.

Past workshops have dealt with the design through erection of tension membrane structures. Another workshop concentrated on the design, fabrication and erection of knitted shadecloth structures.

For the 2020 Conference, a pre-conference workshop dealing with membrane structures is being planned in conjunction with the Specialised Textiles Association (STA - see https://specialisedtextiles.com.au/).

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