Latest CPD
Here are the latest CPD materials to have been assessed and approved by the RIBA. These include both brand new and newly revised CPD materials.
This seminar offers a detailed overview of products available, their performance characteristics and best practice in detailing. The architect or specifier will therefore be able to make a more informed choice of materials and ensure their correct application.
Forticrete is one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of concrete construction products, including architectural masonry, roof tiles, walling stone and cast stone dressings. As ‘Innovators in Concrete’ Forticrete prides itself on continuously improving the aesthetics, technical specification and environmental characteristics of its products.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 30 minutes
This seminar aims to give a better understanding of ventilation technologies that can improve indoor air quality in an energy-efficient way, explaining the differences between background and intense ventilation and the solutions that can be provided. The presentation also suggests a number of ways to prevent overheating within homes, aiming to do this while maintaining architectural unity.
Renson is a Belgian family-run business with a 106-year track record of entrepreneurship and innovation. Renson invites you to be inspired by its dedication to ongoing innovation as it continues to evolve its line of building systems. Providing solutions for better indoor air quality and energy efficiency, Renson also offers attractive, design-focused products that can facilitate almost limitless visual realizations of a project.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
Learn what options are available to the specifier when their project cannot be connected to a main sewer.
This seminar provides information on the products available and regulations that must be met in such a situation, along with the requirements to keep a chosen system performing to its optimum. Ultimately, the specifier will be equipped with the knowledge to properly advise his client on what options are available in order to provide the best solution to their requirements.
From humble beginnings, Harlequin pioneered the manufacture and supply of rotationally-moulded plastic products to become one of Europe's leading tank manufacturers. It now sells to over 20 countries worldwide.
Recently, Harlequin purchased the rotational-moulding products division of Balmoral Tanks. This acquisition has enabled it to manufacture and supply a range of quality effluent treatment and rainwater harvesting systems, including the well-known Hydroclear and Hydrostore ranges, from its base in Moira.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This presentation covers all aspects of working with zinc. This includes the history and development of the alloy, and how the continuous rolling process revolutionised the production of the material we know today.
The seminar also looks at sustainability, ecology and the unique properties of zinc, and touches on roof and façade design and detailing, and the products fabricated from this inspiring material.
Providing good information and technical support has been the key to RHEINZINK’s success. The company prides itself on being a market leader and working with many of the UKs architectural practices. Its aims are to ensure that its material is installed to the highest standards, and that the levels of crafting it requires are maintained throughout.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour
This CPD seminar includes detailed technical information on designing roof gazing and ventilation systems, and on the benefits of natural daylight and ventilation. Topics include orientation, size and positioning of rooflights, daylight factors and U-values. The ventilation section covers comfort ventilation and smoke and heat exhaust ventilation (SHEV). The presentation also covers acoustics, water tightness, impact resistance and performance verification.
Daylight & Ventilation Solutions Ltd is the UK distributor for the leading European-made Lamilux range of roof glazing and ventilation solutions. The company offers a complete range of modular rooflights and glass roof systems, and is a pioneer in providing Passivhaus certified roof glazing to the UK market.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes
This seminar guides the specifier through the need for better indoor air quality. It also details the energy savings that can be achieved in commercial buildings by implementing a ventilation strategy that encompasses mechanical ventilation with heat recovery.
By explaining the principles of operation and variants in equipment design, drivers encouraging specification, and the regulatory landscape, the specifier will achieve a better understanding of the features and benefits that this technology can deliver.
Airflow Developments of High Wycombe has been designing and producing ventilation solutions for over 60 years. From extractor fans for the private home to commercial air handling units with heat recovery for tower blocks, Airflow Developments has an air movement product to deliver quiet, energy-efficient ventilation whatever the application.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This seminar is designed to help specifiers understand the provenance, manufacturing process and potential applications of Welsh slate as a building material. It will explain the advantages and problems with slate, and highlight the differences between slates from around the world. Also covered will be standards, accreditations, classifications and fixing methods.
Welsh Slate is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of a high-quality slate that is suited to an unparalleled range of design-led applications. The inherent beauty and qualities of slate have resulted in its specification and use by architects, developers and interior designers. In recent decades new sources of slate have come into production from around the world, but none come even close to matching the appearance and performance of Welsh slate.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour