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.
Classified as machines under the European Machinery Directive, automatic doors are covered by regulation EN 16005, which sets out the standards and specifications required when operating and maintaining door-sets, their protective devices and safety systems. This seminar helps the specifier to understand the legislation, danger points and safety requirements covering sliding, swing, folding and revolving doors.
In addition to record uk’s classic sliding, swing and revolving doors, its range includes thermally-efficient designs, extra security features for prevention of burglary or forced entry, toughened glass entrances, hermetically-sealed units for sound insulation or hygienic environments, and doors with fire protection and specialist cores. record uk also offers bespoke solutions to help turn visionary and architecturally-inspired designs into reality.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
Covering everything from legislation and best practice to benefits and installation requirements, this presentation discusses how and why balconies should be considered for new build and refurbishment projects across the UK. Using research taken from the colder climes of Sweden, it also shows how fully-glazed balconies can have a positive impact on affordable warmth, passive surveillance and property value.
Started in 1987 by an inspired Swedish engineer with nothing but a bicycle for transport, Balco has grown to develop and deliver award-winning balconies across Europe, featuring the company’s own unique patents. Balco’s in-house architectural advisor works alongside clients to design the perfect balcony, producing a CGI of the finished product before precision-engineering it in Balco’s own factory.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
This CPD seminar examines the options available to the specifier when designing safety and security into a site, and aims to provide him or her with a thorough understanding of the available technology, and the knowledge necessary to configure the most appropriate solution for the client. Learning aims include: the reasons for using entrance control, supplementation of manned guarding by technology, how to integrate security equipment into a building, integration into design, and the reasons for using vehicle control.
Based on industrial experience spanning more than 40 years, Automatic Systems designs and manufactures entrance control equipment. Its product portfolio complements security entrance lanes, swing gates, tripod and full-height turnstiles, interlocking doors and detection units, barriers, rising bollards and road blockers.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
A technical update on EU fire retardant legislation, standards and test methods. This seminar also covers key considerations when selecting fire retardant impregnation treatments, key features of robust fire retardant treatment specifications for timber, and how effective fire retardant impregnation treatments modify the nature of the burning process. In addition, it offers an insight into the high pressure fire retardant treatment process.
Arch Timber Protection is a market-leading, global company that upgrades the fire properties of timber and plywood to either Euroclass B or Euroclass C to provide UK Building Regulations compliance. It achieves this via proven water-based, fire-retardant high pressure impregnation treatments. The company provides technical guidance to support your project specification requirements and ensure appropriate risk management.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 50 minutes.
This seminar looks at the manufacture and specification of HPL (high pressure laminate), including types, sizes, grades and finishes. It provides information on the manufacturing process and identifies opportunities, benefits and uses in the built environment. Specifiers will gain a better understanding of how to specify HPL, as well as relevant standards and key features that make different variants suitable for a range of applications and sectors.
Formica laminate is the ‘original’, with over 100 years’ product innovation and manufacturing experience. Formica Group globally leads the industry in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative surfacing products for commercial and residential applications – particularly doors, washrooms, furniture and countertops.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
This CPD seminar has been created with specifying architects in mind. It presents the audience with a fascinating technical insight, identifying the details that make the difference and the pitfalls to be avoided when specifying cubicles and lockers for sports and leisure projects. Topics covered include: full-height, suspended, framed and unframed cubicles; privacy solutions; specialist fixings; BREEAM, and sustainability.
Prospec is a UK market leader in glass and SGL lockers and cubicles for the leisure and sports sector. With a heritage that dates back more than a century, Prospec has an impressive portfolio of innovations, including glass squash courts, glass cubicles and glass door lockers. Prospec products are highly engineered and suitable for high-end specifications and demanding environments.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
Learn to navigate through the basics of the digital construction conversation. This CPD seminar provides everything from the history of BIM through to the core basics that drive the digital construction movement in the UK.
Wienerberger is a leader in the field of BIM and a supplier of innovative building materials. Access a wealth of useful information, and free-to-download BIM objects for bricks, blocks, roof tiles and pavers, via the company’s website.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
This seminar aims to provide an understanding of how entrance control products work, to build awareness of the balance between control and security, and to explain which products best suit various requirements.
Gunnebo UK specialises in the sale, service and installation of high security equipment, including entrance control equipment and site protection, safes, strong rooms, vaults, security application doors and security screens, fire protection cabinets and files.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.