Learning & Events

Current Events

NSWACT 2022 Region Conference - Lismore
26 July 2022 - 28 July 2022 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

PLA National Conference 2022, Melbourne
16 October 2022 - 19 October 2022 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

QLD Irrigation Design for Fields of Play and their Surrounds
6 October 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

What are the key factors for creating and delivering successful irrigation design? Does local climate matter and how is it considered in the design for fields of play and their surrounds? Come learn about what makes an irrigation system perform at its best, under local site conditions, and what other options are available. Troy's presentation will be followed by 20 minutes for Q&A.
VIC/TAS Industry Talk - Developing and Managing Multipurpose Courts
20 October 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am

VIC/TAS Industry Talk - Metropolitan Regional Parks: back on the agenda!
17 November 2021 10:00 am - 11:00 am
QLD Transforming Spaces for Australian Sport & Recreation Areas
18 November 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Increasing demand for sport and recreation infrastructure brings challenges in providing sport and recreation areas where there seems to be limited spaces available. This webinar may help you reconsider existing opportunities and support provision of new infrastructure, and includes a 20-minute Q&A session with Patrick about the opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions for transforming spaces for sport and recreation areas.
VIC/TAS Parks Field Day
30 November 2021 8:00 am - 1:30 pm

VIC/TAS Thomas Street Playground Redevelopment Seminar
2 December 2021 8:45 am - 12:30 pm
VIC/TAS Multipurpose Facilities on Show - Monash University
7 December 2021 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
QLD Pests in Our Greenspaces - Winning the Battle with Fire Ants
8 December 2021 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Fire Ants are rapidly becoming a major issue for greenspace managers and landscape contractors in Queensland. This webinar may help you gain a clear understanding of what to look-out for and when detected, how to treat for them, is essential to ensure the response is undertaken in the most effective, environmentally responsible, and economical manner. It includes a 20-minute Q&A session with Peter about the opportunities, challenges, and potential solutions for transforming spaces for managing Fire Ants in our public greenspace areas.
NSWACT Around our PLAce: Pests, diseases and biosecurity; how the Royal Botanic Gardens is at the frontline of survelliance
9 December 2021 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

WA Parkour Webinar: Design, Management and Activation
8 February 2022 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
QLD Technical Site Tour The Mill Playspace
10 February 2022 8:00 am - 10:00 am

PLA Queensland in partnership with Moreton Bay Regional Council, O2LA, and Playscape Creations are pleased to host our members, industry stakeholders and guests at Technical Site Tour of multi-award-winning playspace at The Mill Parkland, Petrie.
QLD WEBINAR Why you must enter the PLA QLD 2022 Awards of Excellence
15 February 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Join our host Chris Boulton (PLA QLD Executive Officer) to hear from National Board representative Rachel Thorpe, and some of our own Region and National Award of Excellence winners from QLD on their insights and suggestions on what, why, and how to identify and nominate your best work.
VIC/TAS 2021 Region Conference IN22
18 February 2022 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
QLD Technical Site Tour - Mitchelton Football Club Field
24 February 2022 8:00 am - 10:00 am

PLA QLD in partnership with our Major Region Sponsor SPORTENG, are pleased to invite our members, industry peers, sporting clubs, design professionals, construction and landscape maintenance contractors, educators, and students to our Technical Site Tour of the new synthetic field at Mitchelton Football Club, Teralba Park, Mitchelton.

VIC/TAS Brompton Active Park Seminar and Site Tour
5 April 2022 9:00 am - 1:00 pm
WA Developing A Recreation Strategy Workshop - Kalgoorlie
5 April 2022 9:30 am - 3:00 pm
VIC/TAS Urban Street Tree Management Seminar - Hobart
7 April 2022 9:00 am - 2:10 pm
WA Parks & Environment | Regional Network Webinar
21 April 2022 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A series of online forums commencing in April.
QLD Industry Talk - Contracts + Tendering
27 April 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

In preparation for our pre-Conference Industry Forum in Gladstone, we will be hosting an online industry talk about maintenance contracts and tendering, specifically the challenges with and benefits of collaboration

VIC/TAS Rec+ Research - Social Impacts of Aquatic Facilities
3 May 2022 - 4 May 2022 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
VIC/TAS Industry Talk - Place Centric Model
4 May 2022 10:00 am - 11:00 am
NSWACT Honeysuckle Park, Newcastle Harbour foreshore redevelopment; conception to completion
6 May 2022 11:30 am - 2:00 pm
WA Developing A Recreation Strategy Workshop - Karratha
12 May 2022 8:15 am - 3:00 pm
QLD 2022 Industry Forum Contracts & Tendering
17 May 2022 12:00 pm - 4:00 pm

In preparation for our pre-Conference Industry Forum in Gladstone, we will be hosting an online industry talk about maintenance contracts and tendering, specifically the challenges with and benefits of collaboration
QLD 2022 Region Conference - Gladstone
17 May 2022 - 19 May 2022 12:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Vic/Tas Women's Leadership Program Session 2
18 May 2022 12:00 am - 12:00 pm
QLD 2022 Region Awards of Excellence
19 May 2022 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm