Twenty Years of Building Design - A History of BDAQ

The world has changed a lot in twenty years!

Imagine a world without internet, email or mobile phones!

Now imagine a few business people who happened to hear about pending legislation that would utterly destroy their business and that of many other similar businesses.

This is not fiction, this is the story of Building Designers’ Association of Queensland Inc.

The story of how this news spread throughout Queensland in a flash, of how the fledgling group took on the might of the a professional institute with a hundred years history to first delay and then utterly defeat the legislation, of how the few became hundreds and of how business competitors became business colleagues, is the story of the Building Designers’ Association of Queensland.

It is a truly David and Goliath story that transformed the design industry forever. It is about the creation of a whole new profession and about the men and women who shaped the future and where good building design was given back to the people.

And it was all done without internet, email or a mobile phone! Read more click on the link below!

Mission Accomplished? 20 Years of BDAQ