Gerflor Flooring UK Limited

Material type: Seminar

How to specify technical flooring solutions for pharmaceutical and high technology environments

This CPD covers all specialised aspects related to pharmaceutical and high technology environments, including special requirements for cleanroom environments. It incorporates the certification and standards that need to be met and how these are achieved through the correct flooring specification and installation, surface treatments and clean corner system. Electrostatic discharges, maintenance and design are also looked at as part of the webinar.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Vinyl Flooring: Getting the Specification Right

This CPD is designed to provide specifiers with an overview of the material; its manufacturing processes and its design versatility. The seminar’s focus is the different specification aspects that need to be considered when selecting a floor for residential or commercial use. These aspects include product performance such as slip resistance, acoustics, reaction to fire and durability as well as outlining technical solutions for different types of installation. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The safety and performance requirements to consider when specifying flooring
- The versatility of modern vinyl in terms of design, colours and performance variants
- The important role of surface treatments and the benefits they offer
- Vinyl and its sustainability credentials
- The vinyl product ranges available and typical applications

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Specifying the Right Floor When It's a Question of Sport

This seminar looks at the importance of the right sports floor specification. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- How the right floor can help reduce sports injuries
- The different types of sports floors available, their properties and where they should be used
- Innovative design options for sports floors
- How to select the right floor and the European standard to follow, including some of the headline tests of standard EN14904 and how they can help reduce potential injury
- How to look after sports floors and the associated issues

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Old_Specifying to Address Risk in Healthcare Environments

This CPD will cover the following topics:
- How vinyl flooring can help with NHS risk management
- The Department of Health’s Building Notes in relation to flooring
- Evidence-based flooring design considerations for dementia care facilities
- Vinyl and its sustainability credentials
- Installation and budget considerations
- Evidence-based design considerations for flooring in the healthcare environment

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Environmental Considerations of Specifying Vinyl Flooring

Specifying sustainable building products is critical to the success of construction projects but many difficulties arise as a result of conflicting and credible evidence.

As a result of the work undertaken by the Building Research Establishment specifying low environmental impact flooring has become much clearer. This very popular CPD programme seeks to demystify the whole area of specifying vinyl flooring using independently verified data to demonstrate the important contribution it makes to reducing the impact on the environment

Material type: Seminar

Understanding Sports Floors and the new BS EN 14904

This seminar provides a broad introduction to vinyl flooring in terms of its performance maintenance and life cycle costs. It also covers other specification matters including aesthetics and environmental concerns.

Material type: Seminar

Vinyl Floors For The Future: Matching the Needs of the the Specifier

This seminar will re-launch vinyl flooring in the mind of the architect, by showing that there is a suitable vinyl floor for areas of application, from modern, traditional, to areas of special needs. After this seminar the architect will be confident in specifying a vinyl floor for the right application.

Material type: Seminar

Vinyl Floors, Meeting Modern Interior Floorcovering Requirements

An overview of manufacturing processes and the wide choice of designs and colours available
- A look at the different types of material and their application performances in the contract and residential markets
- Demystifying slip resistance and developing their understanding of technologically advanced surface treatments
- Defining what is vinyl how can it contribute to the sustainability of modern buildings

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Specifying Floor and Wall Solutions for Pharmaceutical and High Technology Industries

This seminar is about the necessity to control cleanroom environments and the standards affecting the floor and wall surfaces. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The necessity to control electro-static discharges and the cleanroom standards and certification and testing regimes that affect the floor and wall coverings
- How new technology within vinyl flooring can help to meet cleanroom standards
- How vinyl floor and wall coverings are suited to pharmaceutical and high technology environments
- Installation, maintenance and design considerations for vinyl floor and wall solutions in pharmaceutical and high technology environments

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar