We were delighted to receive the WA Chapter 2025 President’s Prize in December, which recognised Officer Woods, “for their unwavering commitment to addressing the most prescient challenges: climate change; housing delivery and its affordability; equity and inclusion, and, in particular, First Nations inclusion.

Their practice has shown leadership across all these frontiers and this leadership has been recognised nationally. Officer Woods has earned over 30 awards, including the East Pilbara Arts Centre, Spinifex Hill Project Space, and Boola Katitjin at Murdoch University with Lyons et al. Their leadership in housing innovation includes winning an international competition for the NSW Housing Pattern Book, grounded in rigorous research such as Jennie’s work at UWA. They are also leaders in energy-efficient structures and decarbonisation, with Trent currently chairing the Chapter’s Sustainability Committee.

They have been fearless and relentless in their engagement with ethical integrity and have confidently shown the best the profession has to offer to the communities we serve.” – WA Chapter President, Ross Donaldson.

A very exciting project milestone – construction for @murdochuni New Academic Building (NAB) is well and truly underway and has reached a significant project milestone this week with the first of the mass engineered timber starting to be erected on site.

The WA branch of the ACA, in collaboration with Open House Perth, presented a Medium Density Symposium late in March. Jennie Officer presented as part of the Architects and Landscape Architects Panel.