Join us for AIBC PD Day 2025, taking place exclusively online on Wednesday, May 14. This virtual professional development event features multiple programming streams, a plenary presentation, and more than 10 learning opportunities, which all explore topics impacting today’s architectural professional practice.
Attendees can personalize their learning experience to specific areas of interests and expertise, with four streams of content:
Sustainability & Climate Action
- Leveraging the Synergies Between Mass Timber Architecture and Zero Energy Architecture
- Marpole Community Centre: Lessons in Balancing High-Performance Goals
- Interweaving with Nature to Achieve Carbon Draw Down
Innovation & Technology
- Single Exit Stair Apartment Buildings: A New Typology for B.C.
- AI in Architecture and Rethinking Housing with Microfactories
- AI: The Next Architectural Revolution
- Harnessing Complexity: The Future of Work We Desire Requires Transformation at a Systems Scale
Community & Social Advocacy
- Resource Circularity: Building-Integrated Agriculture for Resilient, Adaptive, and Healthy Communities
- Designing Comfort: Evidence-Based Strategies for Human-Centred Architecture
- Principles of Placemaking: The Secrets Behind Highly Successful Urban Plazas and Parks
Indigenous Peoples Learning
- Indigenous Architecture in BC: Learning from First Nations Projects
- Whakapapa (genealogy) and the Future: Intergenerational Design and Cultural Identity in Indigenous Architecture of Aotearoa
View the full lineup of speakers and the AIBC PD Day 2025 schedule on the website.
Earn up to Five Core Learning Units, Meet CES Requirements
AIBC PD Day is an efficient and effective way to earn Learning Units (LUs) – attendees can earn up to five Core LUs by attending the full event. Participants also have the opportunity to fully meet the AIBC’s CES requirement of two Core LUs dedicated towards Indigenous Peoples Learning.
Online Registration Now Open
Don’t miss out – register for AIBC PD Day 2025 today! Full pricing information can be found on the event website. Subsidized pricing is also available for Intern Architects AIBC, Retired Architects AIBC, AIBC Affiliates (Applicants), and architectural students – simply select your designation from the options shown during the registration process. Please note that your registration status with the AIBC must be active and will be verified following your purchase.
If you have any questions about the AIBC PD Day 2025, please email conference-pdday@aibc.ca.