Cohort 1 · 2026
Learn building management from the person who wrote the book.
A 12-week live cohort with Dino Biordi. Guaranteed placement on graduation.
Twelve seats. One cohort a year.
The gap
The industry has needed this course for twenty years.
Nobody has built it. Until now.
Most residential strata building managers in Australia learned the trade by accident. They inherited a building, they figured it out, they survived. Some became excellent. Most never got the chance to become excellent because nobody taught them what excellent looked like.
Universities offer property degrees that take three years and cost upwards of $30,000, with no guarantee of a job at the end. Industry training is fragmented and theoretical. The trade itself has no formal pathway.
That is a problem for buyers — committees, owners corporations, developers — who cannot find building managers who meet a defensible standard. It is a bigger problem for the people who want to do this work and do not know where to start.
Building Management Mastery is the answer to both.
The teacher
The teacher.
Dino Biordi is the founder of LUNA Management and the author of The Building Management Field Guide — the new industry-standard reference for residential strata building management in Australia.
Twenty-five years across construction and operations. Fifteen of those building. The rest running them. Hundreds of residential buildings touched, from boutique six-lot schemes to high-rise multi-stage developments. The work that became this course was written for a reason: there is no other course like it in Australia, and the standards in the industry are too low.
Dino is the only person teaching this course. Every class. Every cohort. No outsourced facilitators, no recorded modules played back to you. Real-time, personal, accountable.
"I built this course because the residential strata industry deserves better-trained managers — and because the people who want to do this work deserve a real pathway in."
The textbook for the course. Free to download from luna.management.
The transformation
Twelve weeks from now, you will be a different professional.
The curriculum
Twelve weeks. Built around The Building Management Field Guide.
Each module is one week. Each week is one live class with Dino, one assignment in your building (or a nominated training building), and one cohort discussion thread.
- 1
Module 1 — Foundations
What residential strata is, the legal frame, the role split, the eight pillars of building management.
- 2
Module 2 — The First 90 Days
The LUNA 90-Day CALM Framework™ — onboarding into a new building with a system, not a guess.
- 3
Module 3 — Compliance and Safety
AFSS, essential services, WHS, fire safety, the seven non-negotiables. The discipline that protects everything else.
- 4
Module 4 — Building Systems and Lifecycles
Mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, fire, fabric, security. ABMA-aligned maintenance schedules. Lifecycles of every major asset.
- 5
Module 5 — Operations
Daily, weekly, monthly, annual rhythms. Common areas, amenities, cleaning, security, sustainability.
- 6
Module 6 — People
Residents, committees, strata managers, contractors. Communication standards. By-law administration. Difficult conversations.
- 7
Module 7 — Risk and Governance
Hazard registers, emergency procedures, business continuity, insurance, dispute resolution.
- 8
Module 8 — Financial Foundations
Levies, the two funds, capital works planning, procurement. Your role alongside the strata manager.
- 9
Module 9 — Sustainability
The retrofit pipeline. Energy, water, waste. Owners-corporation funding mechanisms.
- 10
Module 10 — Continuous Improvement
KPIs, quarterly reviews, annual stocktakes, the long arc of getting better.
- 11
Module 11 — Building Your Practice
Day one as a building manager. Setting your rates. Negotiating contracts. Building a career.
- 12
Module 12 — Capstone and Placement
Live evaluation by a committee panel. Placement.
The experience
A small cohort. A high standard.
This is not a course you watch on your phone at 2x speed. It is a live cohort experience.
Twelve weeks
One module per week. Twelve weeks of live, structured progression.
Twelve seats per cohort
Application-only. No exceptions.
One cohort per year
2026 is Cohort 1. Cohort 2 opens 2027.
Every week, you get
- 90-minute live class with Dino, Tuesday evenings (Sydney time)
- A practical assignment in your building, or a nominated LUNA training building if you do not currently have one
- A cohort discussion thread for peer learning
Every month, you get
- A 45-minute one-to-one mentoring call with Dino
- A cohort dinner — in person in Sydney, live-streamed for remote attendees
At graduation, you get
- A live presentation of your capstone work to a panel of strata committees
- Certificate of Completion (LUNA-issued)
- Guaranteed placement in a residential strata building (Australia)
Anywhere in Australia, anywhere in the world. The course is delivered online. Optional Sydney in-person meet-ups. The placement guarantee applies to graduates seeking work in Australia.
Who this is for
This course is for serious people only.
It is for you if:
- You manage a residential strata building today and want to be excellent at it
- You are starting a career in building management
- You are a property professional moving into residential strata
- You want a defensible industry-standard credential
- You can commit twelve hours per week for twelve weeks
- You want personal access to the person who wrote the book
It is not for you if:
- You want a passive course you watch at 2x speed
- You are looking for a side gig
- You are unwilling to be assessed publicly by a committee panel
- You expect to skate through
We accept twelve people per cohort. Applications are screened. The course is not for everyone, and that is the point.
Investment
$14,995. With a guaranteed placement.
Other paths into residential strata building management:
Twelve weeks. The author teaches every class. Twelve hand-picked cohort members. Guaranteed placement on graduation.
You will recover the investment in your first six months of work in residential strata building management. The asset you walk away with — the standards, the network, the placement — pays back for the rest of your career.
Three-instalment payment plan available. $5,000 on acceptance, $5,000 on Day 1, $4,995 at Week 6.
The guarantee
Graduate. Get placed. Or get your money back.
We guarantee placement in a residential strata building within 90 days of graduation, or we refund 100% of the course fee.
The placement is real, not a token referral. We will introduce you to building management agencies, owners corporations and developers who hire residential strata building managers. We will brief them on your training. We will follow up with both sides. We have skin in the game because the only way the industry rises is if our graduates take the work and deliver to the standard.
For graduates who already work in residential strata building management and do not need a new role, the guarantee converts to a documented standards uplift in your existing role — evidenced by a committee evaluation against the standards in The Building Management Field Guide, completed within 90 days of graduation.
Placement guarantee applies to graduates with full Australian work rights, seeking placement in Australia, who completed all course requirements and graduated in good standing.
Questions
Frequently asked questions.
Cohort 1 opens in early 2026. Specific dates announced to applicants on the waitlist.
Cohort 1 · 2026
Twelve seats. Cohort 1, 2026.
The Building Management Field Guide is the standard. This course is how you live up to it.