Latest CPD
Here are the latest CPD materials to have been assessed and approved by the RIBA. These include both new and recently-revised CPD materials.
This interactive presentation covers the environmental and health benefits of natural light, the different glass types and their uses, what makes a good rooflight (in terms of performance characteristics), testing and certifications, and glass fragility and loadings. In short, it provides the specifier with the tools and confidence necessary to specify rooflights and roof glazing quickly and efficiently.
Vision AGI is inspired by its belief in creative thinking and engineering excellence. Its high specification, fully tested rooflights are modern and elegant, while remaining competitively priced.
Vision AGI values its customers' requirements and prides itself on excellent customer service, from enquiry to delivery and beyond.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
Smart home technology is here to stay. Discover how to design truly smart homes that offer homeowners a better, safer and more efficient way of living through the automation of lighting, heating, security and more. This CPD seminar looks at features that are possible with smart home technology, and offers advice on how to choose the most suitable solution for your project.
With over 50,000 integrated smart homes worldwide, Loxone has captured the attention of the market in just eight years. Through the independent control of all home features, such as lighting, heating and security, Loxone products acts like an autopilot, running the home automatically at the most efficient level possible.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
An overview of the history and application of access flooring systems, this seminar provides guidance on specification, finishes and the practicalities of installing and using a raised access floor. By highlighting the many features and benefits of access floors, participants are provided with all the information needed to specify a floor to suit varying requirements.
Kingspan Access Floors is a world-leader in the access flooring sector, offering an unprecedented 25-year total system warranty. Kingspan has supplied and installed access flooring for a wide variety of applications, including general office, data centres, retail and education. It has a proud tradition that dates back to 1903, and has delivered projects in some of the most prestigious buildings around the World.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
This seminar looks at the differences between private and adoptable pumping stations. It details the issues to be considered when specifying a pumping station in a range of different developments, and includes information about their function, design, installation, operation and maintenance processes.
T-T is a leading supplier of everything needed to master water management challenges. It specialises, not only in off-the-shelf pumps, valves and controls, but also in bespoke pumping solutions, specialist valves and custom-made control panels for your specific application. To complement its products, T-T operates a dedicated service division covering the whole of the UK, to ensure your products run efficiently and economically.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
The purpose of this seminar is to enthuse and inform architects about specifying hardwood internal and external doorsets. The presentation is both engaging and informative, allowing architects to get their hands on samples and to learn about Passive House doors, doors in architectural and frameless glass, insulation and acoustics, and accessibility and sizing.
With a wide choice of front, internal and garage doors to choose from, Urban Front offers high performance, functional style and individual design. Urban Front doors are made in the UK and shipped all over the world. Its flexible design range includes flush doorsets, oversized doors (up to 1.5m x 3m) and Passive House doors. Urban Front doors work with home automation, fitted into glass curtain walling, and can be finished in a variety of textures and materials, including bronze.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
A guide to how laminate performance wall surfaces have developed to become a recognised alternative to tiles for commercial and residential applications. This seminar includes a review of their pros and cons, design considerations, advantages of installation speed and ease of ongoing maintenance.
Bushboard Ltd has been developing beautiful surfaces since 1935. Its superior panelling collection is transforming commercial bathroom design. While the use of laminated panels as an alternative to tiling is nothing new, Nuance raises the bar by delivering a range that offers fabulous design and desirability. One hundred per cent waterproof, factory-finished edges, no trims, fabulous to look at and up to six times faster to install than tile, Nuance is fast becoming the specifier's first choice for performance wall surfacing.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
This seminar provides an overview of thermal bridging, discussing the reasons why it occurs as well as how it can be prevented. It also compares building details with and without thermal break solutions, to highlight the importance of determining accurate values of thermal transmittance.
Thermal bridging is a significant factor in building energy loss. By reducing heat flow through the thermal envelope, we reduce energy consumption, as well as prevent potential condensation issues. Building codes now require building enclosures to have ‘continuous insulation’ without thermal bridging. Thermal breaks dramatically reduce heat loss in wall assemblies, transitions and structural connections. They can minimize building energy loss and improve envelope performance.
Armatherm has been proven – through three-dimensional modelling – to reduce heat loss in wall assemblies, transitions and structural connections throughout the building envelope.
Armatherm solutions can be used anywhere a penetration or transition exists in the building envelope, creating a thermal bridge. Applications include balcony, canopy, parapet, masonry shelf angle, cladding/Z-girt connections and wall-to-foundation transitions. Improvements in the effective U value of wall assemblies can be as much as 70%.
Armadillo Noise & Vibration is a collaborative, design-build partner that can assist in determining the extent of thermal bridging heat loss on building envelope performance, including thermal modelling and connection design calculations.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 30 minutes.