Special fittings
Still one of the most popular CPD topics among visitors to the RIBA CPD Showcase, simply because it is so diverse.
This is a fun and informative introduction to relevant acoustic principles using audio demonstrations and practical project examples. Each attendee will receive their own Acoustipedia, a CD-based interactive encyclopaedia of acoustics.
As an independent, international multi-disciplinary engineering and sustainability consultancy for the built environment, Hilson Moran applies its expert consultancy skills and specialist knowledge to a range of projects, from a network of offices in the UK and Middle East. Its highly experienced acoustics team offers innovative, expert advice in all areas of noise and vibration.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
Enabling the security, operations and facilities team to work together effectively and efficiently is made significantly easier where there is good computer room and data centre design. Energy costs and carbon emissions can be reduced by introducing current best practice technologies. This seminar discusses current data centre design with the aim of ‘building for operation’.
Migration Solutions (MigSolv) provides consultancy, build, migration and operations for data centres and computer rooms. The company’s Environmental Report and Assessment is the first industry-standard tool to provide a 360° view of the data centre’s environmental impact.
MigSolv prides itself on the fact that all its staff have worked in data centre and computer room environments. Its consultants regularly visit its own data centre to ensure that they are fully up-to-date with any new processes that are relevant and applicable to customers. MigSolv has been providing advice on all aspects of computer rooms and data centres – from design, build and operation, to the migration of these facilities – for more than ten years.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This seminar discusses all aspects of performance flooring, from initial design, through installation, to aftercare. It offers impartial advice on all types of sports surfaces, to help ensure that the right surface is specified for the right facility. Aesthetic freedom, value for money and performance standards are covered in an interactive session.
Reflex Sports is a truly independent sports specialist that advises on all aspects of indoor sports surfaces. It designs, tests, manufactures and installs sports systems worldwide. Its team is passionate about sports flooring, and boasts unrivalled expertise and experience in all things ‘indoor sport’ related. With excellent environmental credentials Reflex Sports can help create beautiful and sustainable surfaces.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes