Featured CPD
The following CPD materials have all been assessed and approved by the RIBA.
An introduction to bespoke offsite construction solutions. This seminar provides an overview of offsite construction methods. It also explores the benefits of adopting a systematic approach to these methods, while examining points of consideration for the architect or specifier looking to use offsite building methods. Finally, it focuses on the benefits of using offsite construction methods in delivering sustainable buildings.
Svenskhomes offers a bespoke designed closed-panel timber frame building solution. Manufactured in its state-of-the-art factory in Sweden, Svenskhomes supplies an energy-efficient building envelope using Swedish technologies. The Svenskhomes system features both excellent thermal and air-tight performance, offering a rapid-build system that is truly flexible to individual bespoke design. An average building of 170m² is superstructure-erected in just a few days.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
The deadline for the UK Government's BIM mandate has passed, but where are you on your BIM journey? This seminar helps to explain what design-led BIM is, how to start implementing BIM in your projects and how to determine the right level of BIM for each project.
As a member of Buildsmart, Vectorworks is committed to ‘openBIM’ and true interoperability within this industry. These open standards include the use of Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) for building geometry and data. Vectorworks’ BIM specialists offer bespoke training to help you implement BIM in your future projects.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
This presentation uses a combination of images and detailed explanations to help designers understand the theory of curved fabric and the design and fitting of green roofs on curved rooftops. Clear advice is given about detailed design for both types of structure and how to integrate fabric-clad buildings into curved insulated structures.
Fordingbridge plc has an excellent reputation for the design and build of canopies, walkways, tensile fabric structures and sustainable curved roofed buildings. It is passionate about helping clients maximise any sites’ potential by creating inspiring environments. Fordingbridge works with architects, building contractors and directly with clients to produce bespoke or standard design solutions for a wide range of uses.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
This seminar aims to help specifiers: be confident in the use of natural slate for a variety of applications, understand why natural slate makes good roofing and cladding material, specify natural slate correctly, and recognise the main pitfalls of natural slate specification. It also features case studies where natural slate has been used to solve complex design problems, while explaining the environmental benefits of choosing natural slate over other types of roofing product.
Spanish Slate Quarries Natural Slate is one of the UK's leading specialist suppliers of natural slate products, providing slate roofing solutions to the building and construction industry. SSQ’s slates are backed by reputable guarantees, as well as a 30-year track record of proven performance.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.