President’s Newsletter: October 2025

Build your Knowledge, Build your Network

Dear Colleagues,

As we approach the end of the academic and calendar year of 2025, I have no doubt everyone will be busy through to February 2026 undertaking campus improvement works.

The new Board members introduced in the last newsletter are settling in well and have been assigned to a TEFMA Committee. The Committee composition is:

TEFMA 2025

On behalf of the TEFMA Board I would like to extend our appreciation to all those that were able to attend our annual TEFMA Conference in Brisbane in September. We reached a record milestone with over 550 delegates attending, a fantastic outcome reflecting the value our annual conference provides to our members. The feedback has been extremely positive, and we wish to warmly thank the organising committee, our keynote speakers and session presenters, our conference organiser, our exhibitors and sponsors, and all delegates. Thank you also to the institutions in Brisbane who hosted a number of site tours across the Conference days.

We are reviewing all feedback received following the Conference to ensure learnings inform the success of future TEFMA events. The Education Services Committee has already started making arrangements for the 2026 workshops and the TEFMA 26 Conference in Melbourne next September.

Scholarships and Awards

Congratulations to all Scholarship and Award winners announced at the TEFMA Wilson Security TEFMA Clever Campus Gala dinner in Brisbane:

Dates for the diary

Monthly Webinars
TEFMA’s monthly webinar programme continues to be very popular, which is a credit to all members. Details of upcoming Webinars are provided below and you can register here:

Events

TEFMA will continue to offer a variety of informative and engaging events in 2026 with the opportunity to collaborate with your peers and those that contribute strongly to our sector. Communications will be coming out soon for the following events, so I encourage you to register to ‘Build your Knowledge and Build your Network’!

New TEFMA Business Partners

If you have not done so recently, we encourage our member institutions to view information on the TEFMA Business Partners list on the website here to understand how they can assist you with the goals and objectives of your institutions. I am delighted to welcome the following new TEFMA Business Partners:

New Plumbing Solutions (NPS) – Innovation in Plumbing. NPS are committed to quality, exceptional customer service and a focus on investing in innovative new technologies, ensuring a tailored solutions and a value for money outcome. NPS plumbing maintenance, civil and trenchless services, water metering and new connections.

Cox – a practice built around designers that collaborate with clients, stakeholders and communities. Cox is By the Many, For the Many. COX seeks to do more with less, tapping into resourceful Australian culture to build value through ingenuity. They strive for quality through our beliefs in equality and opportunity. Cox has offices across Australia and New Zealand.

Urbis – Urbis state that they have one simple goal - to shape cities and communities for a better future. Urbis covers areas of planning, design, policy, heritage, valuations, transactions economics or research to deliver evidence-based solutions from their creative community of practice experts.

We extend a big thank you to all of our Business Partners for their continued support - you are crucial in bringing relevant services and educational offerings to TEFMA institutional members and appreciate the contribution and value you provide to the sector.

TEFMA Community

Please remember to view the TEFMA Community portal with the aim of fostering a culture of collaboration through sharing and engaging with the resources available in the library. The information is intended to generate discussion, build relationships with peers and learn from one another. TEFMA institutional members can also connect with their UK colleagues by utilising the AUDE global discussion board on the AUDE website, a new resource launched in early October 2025.

Should you wish to contact TEFMA, please email info@tefma.com

Kind Regards,

Shane Jennings
TEFMA President

For all enquiries, please contact:

TEFMA Secretariat
E: info@tefma.com
Ph: 02 9431 8692

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