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Tata Steel provides a comprehensive range of products and techniques to create value for the construction industry and support sustainable development. The company works closely with its customers to deliver solutions aimed at improving cost-effectiveness and speed of construction, increasing the functionality and performance of buildings and infrastructure. The goal is to reduce the consumption of resources, including energy, both in the original construction process and in ongoing usage. The construction industry is Tata Steel’s largest single market globally, and the Group offers a range of products and systems – including Celsius structural hollow sections, ComFlor and RoofDek decking, Trisomet, Trimapanel and Trisobuild building envelope systems, and Colorcoat pre-finished steel. Among its credentials, the company supplies the widest range of construction products certified to BES 6001, the responsible sourcing standard. In addition to the product range, it has a team of experi...

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Multiple CPD formats
CDM Regulations 2015 and their Impact on Building Envelope Specification
The CPD will provide the attendee with guidance on the key changes between the 2007 and 2015 revision of the CDM Regulations. This is an update from our previous RIBA approved CDM CPD.

The CPD outlines the key changes and the background to these changes, including specific duties of
the different stakeholders within a project delivery.

The presentation then covers considerations for the specification of pre finished steel cladding systems to ensure performance is as specified.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Colour in the Built Environment
This seminar is about the use of colour in the built environment. It will help you to understand the
following topics:
The principles of colour and how we see colour.
The different colour measurement and classification systems.
Principles behind the development of a colour palette.
How to measure colour differences and colour matching tools and procedures.

This CPD can be delivered to you as face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Pre-finished Steel Standing Seam Systems for Roof and Wall Cladding
This CPD aims to provide an introduction to standing seam roof and wall systems, appreciating historical application and modern-day contemporary use.

Topics discussed include the aesthetic and durability performance of steel in standing seam systems, build up methods and detailing, installation and building regulations including Part L, fire, and acoustics, sustainable eco credentials and examples of standing seams in situ.

By the end of the seminar, you should have a greater understanding of:
1. Aesthetic effects and details achievable with a standing steel system.
2. Different build up methods.
3. Key performance criteria when selecting steel material for standing seam systems.
4. Sustainability credentials associated with standing seam steel systems, as well as the renewable energy options available.

This CPD can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Structural Roof Decking in Construction
This structural roof decking CPD seminar provides an insight into the use of metal deck roofing systems. It addresses the key issues to be considered when specifying a structural roof-deck built up construction options and advantages, roof deck profile range, CE Marking, coatings, environmental and sustainability issues, installation, non fragility, penetrations, curved roofs, cantilevers, acoustics, loadings, software, diaphragm design and case studies.

It will help you to understand the following topics:
The benefits of choosing steel roof decking
The basics of diaphragm design
The environmental benefits of steel roof decking
Acoustic performance from metal decking
What applied loadings to expect.

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
Sustainable Refurbishment Solutions for Non-domestic buildings
This seminar will cover the following topics:

Main reasons and drivers for refurbishment.
Part L2B and key requirements.
Main types of refurbishment solutions available.
Technical processes involved in delivering refurbishment solutions.
Main hazards and risks that can be encountered during refurbishment.
How these risks can be managed and overcome.
The sustainable nature of refurbishment:
Improving energy performance.
Reducing Co2 emissions.
Pack-back periods for refurbishment projects.
Integration of renewable technologies in refurbishment projects.
Refurbishment case studies.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
Steel Cladding Systems for Buildings
The CPD will provide the attendee with details of the fundamental differences between different metal cladding systems.

The CPD outlines the key performance criteria for the building envelope and how the different systems can perform.
The presentation covers some of the sustainability credentials of metal cladding systems.

By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:
The different types of cladding system.
The main performance requirements of the building envelope and how metal cladding systems can
Perform.
The importance of correct specification design and installation to ensure the performance of
cladding/roofing is as designed/specified.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
Building Integrated Renewable Energy
The CPD will provide the attendee an overview of the drivers and background for renewable energy systems and their integration into the building design.

The CPD outlines the key performance criteria for PV systems and transpired solar collectors which are the technologies most suitable for integration into the building envelope.

The presentation briefly covers ground source heat pumps and their effect on Part L compliance and
their impact on other technologies.

By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding
of:
The background and development of PV and TSC technologies.
The main performance criteria for TSC and PV technologies.
The building design implications of installing PV and TSC technologies.
How renewable technologies and ground source heat pumps interact and can be combined as a Part L compliance strategy.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Part L 2021 edition: The Role of the Building Envelope in Compliance for Non-Domestic Buildings
The CPD will provide the attendee with guidance on the key changes between Part L 2013 and Part L
2021 edition as an interim step before the Future Buildings Standard in 2025. This is an update from
our previous RIBA approved Part L CPD which was based on 2013 edition but covers the
considerations around methodology and compliance covering National Calculation methodology,
SBEM and the Notional building. It covers the main themes for new build but also features considerations for refurbishment.

The focus of the CPD is not to show different scenarios with
modelling but a highlight of the main changes, what they mean and the implications to consider as a
result. This looks at the changes from a holistic/general approach to compliance from a building envelope perspective.

Please note that this is available as face to face or a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Factory Visit
Factory Tour: Pre-finished Steel and the Manufacturing Process
This CPD takes the visitor on a tour of Europe's largest pre finished steel manufacturing facility, at Tata Steel Limited, Shotton Works, Deeside. The guided tour encompasses all aspects of the production process.

The tour is completed by a technical presentation, which provides additional detail about the manufacture, testing, specification, and utilisations of the products. The total duration of the visit is half a day.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Factory Visit
Multiple CPD formats
Specifying Metal Clad Envelope Systems in Accordance with ADB2 of the Building Regulations and the Value of Large-Scale System Testing.
This CPD provides an overview of the building regulations in relation to fire for non domestic buildings in England (ADB2). These were published in August 2019 and focus on elements that mostly influence the specification of the building envelope products (i.e., roofs and walls). The CPD also looks at the additional need for insurance approval and the use of large scale testing to gain this approval, as well as how insurance approved products perform in real life fires.

By the end of the presentation, you should have a greater understanding of:
The recommendations in ADB2 for specification of roof and wall products in England.
The test methods used to rate roof and wall products within ADB2.
The need for insurance approval on non domestic buildings in the UK and the tests required to gain this approval.
How to identify the correct fire regulation for your UK project.
How to specify a roof or wall system in relation to its fire performance to regulation recommendations for non domestic buildings in England.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
The RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge: How steel building envelope solutions contribute
This CPD will provide the attendee with guidance on the specification and construction of low carbon and low environmental impact buildings. It will examine operational energy including the fabric first approach, efficient services, and low carbon heat, maximising onsite renewables and minimum offsetting using UK schemes.

Following this, it will discuss embodied cardon, potable water and best practises for health metrics, using these topics to question how we can meet the RIBA 2030 Climate
Challenge.

By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:
How to make design decisions by embedding sustainable practices within your specifications.
How you can more easily meet the targets of the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge by utilising locally sourced and sustainably manufactured steel building envelope solutions.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Steel Building Envelope Systems for Non-Domestic Buildings
This seminar covers the following topics:
Overview of different steel roofing and cladding systems.
Structural performance.
Internal and external environments.
Weather tightness and installation.
Conservation of heat and power.
Fire performance.
Insurance requirements.
Acoustic performance.
Sustainability.
Integration of renewable technologies.
Case studies.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Building Integrated Renewable Technologies for Non-Domestic Buildings'
This seminar covers the following topics:
Legislation and the drive towards zero carbon buildings.
Comparison of renewable technologies.
Options for integration of renewables into building envelope.
Transpired Solar Collectors.
Performance parameters:
System variants.
Control
Payback periods.
Case studies.
Photovoltaics:
Different types of PV system.
Factors affecting performance.
Installation.
Maintenance.
Warranties (of PV and substrate).
Payback periods.
Case studies.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Sustainable Refurbishment Solutions for Non Domestic Buildings
This seminar will cover the following topics:

- Main reasons nad drivers for refurbishment.
- Part L2B and key requirements.
- Main types of refurbishment solutions availble.
- Technical processes involved in delivering refurbishment solutions.
- Main harzards and risks that can be encountered during refurbishment.
- How these risks can be managed and overcome.
- The sustainable nature of refurbishment:
- Improving energy performance.
- Reducing Co2 emissions.
- Packback periods for refurbishment projects.
- Inegrations of renewable technologiesin refurbishment projects.
- Refurbishment case studies.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
Acoustic Performance of Pre-finished Steel Cladding Systems
Pre finished steel cladding systems can form the basis of an acoustically high performance building envelope. The actual requirements will be building specific, but where improvements are needed over the standard systems there are some simple guidelines that can be followed.

The guidance given in this CPD will help building designers to achieve the optimum acoustic performance from their building envelopes.

This CPD can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Material type: Online Learning
Multiple CPD formats
Creating an Air Tight Building Envelope - Technical Paper
This technical paper provides guidance on the factors which affect the building envelope heat losses and quantify the typical air tightness performance of metal cladding joints.

This information can then be used when specifying the design requirements of a project to achieve Part L compliance.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Material type: Online Learning
Multiple CPD formats
Structural Performance of Built-up Roof and Wall Cladding Systems Technical Paper.
This technical paper aims to give the specifier a good understanding of what structural performance should be expected of a cladding system.

It addresses the structural aspects of the specification of a
built up cladding system and considers the necessary load paths in the cladding design. Architects
and specifiers will have a clear understanding of the behaviour of individual components and the
interaction between them.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Material type: Online Learning
Multiple CPD formats
Steel for Roofing and Wall Cladding
This seminar will cover the following topics:
Manufacturing process.
Steel substrate and properties:
Gauge.
Galvanising.
Different paint system properties and performance.
Structural performance.
Fragility, Health and Safety and compliance with CDM Regulations.
Aesthetics.
Durability and testing:
Corrosion resistance.
UV resistance.
External and Internal environments.
Aggressive environments.
Fire performance.
Part L and contribution of systems.
Acoustics.
Sustainability.
Guarantees.
Case Studies.

This can be delivered to you face to face or as a live webinar.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
NLU- Refurbishment Solutions for Metal Roofing and Cladding
This seminar aims to provide a greater understanding of how the regulations and systems can affect a refurbishment project and how the choice of system can influence the functionality and aesthetics of the final scheme. It also deals with the thought process and design considerations.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Literature
NLU- In Plane Rooflights for Low Energy Buildings
For the first time this paper looks at the various impacts of introducing natural light into single storey buildings. Adopting the principles laid out here will help building designers to optimise their design with respect to the availablility of natural light, avoiding overheating and minimising energy usage.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Seminar
Pre-Finished Steel for Standing Seam Roofs and How It Contributes to The Code for Sustainable Homes
This seminar will:
- Provide specifiers, building owners and clients with a comprehensive understanding of the benefits for using pre-finished steel for standing seam roofs
- Offer architects an alternative method in their quest to achieve higher levels in the Code for Sustainable Homes
- Highlight the sustainable attributes of pre-finished steel roof and wall cladding systems
- Explain how its specification can contribute to achieving a good overall rating in the Code for Sustainable Homes
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Literature
NLU- End of Life Options for Pre-finished Steel Buildings -Technical Paper
The sustainability of a building in terms of its material usage, construction, occupation and end of life is becoming an increasing concern. This colorcoat® technical paper, produced with the SCI, looks at the various end-of-life options for the building envelope.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
An Introduction to BREEAM for Pre-finished Steel Industrial Buildings
The Technical Paper takes an in-depth look at the BREEAM environmental assessment method, and provides specifiers, building owners and clients with a comprehensive understanding of the benefits of having industrial buildings assessed within the BREEAM scheme. The paper highlights the sustainable attributes of pre-finished steel roof and wall cladding systems and explains how its specification can contribute to achieving a good overall BREEAM rating for the building.
Architects and specifiers will have clear understanding of the assessment process and the factors, which significantly influence the final BREEAM score.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Seminar
NLU- Sustainability and the Building Envelope
This seminar will inform the attendee about the nature of sustainability, its origins, ie. climate change and the key driving forces behind its growing importance today, relate this to the construction and more specifically, the steel industry and focusing on the building envelope, give information and statistics about the progress made in sustainable steel manufacture, explain the key issues relating to sustainable steel manufacture ie. product life cycle analysis, recycling, environmental product declarations and relate this to the relevant international standards, as well as briefing on the basics of Carbon Offsetting.
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
NLU-Sustainable Roof and Wall Cladding: Built-up Steel Systems
Built-up steel cladding systems provide a modern, sustainable solution for the building envelope of many buildings. This CPD introduces these systems and the results which can be achieved with them. The CPD provides a background to assessing the sustainability of building components, then shows how built-up steel cladding systems meet the various criteria of sustainability. There is an emphasis on the contribution that these building envelope solutions can make to reducing the whole-life impact of construction, including not only embodied impacts, but the in-use phase and the practicalities of dealing with construction materials at end-of-life.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
NLU- Importance of Air-Tightness in Non-Domestic Buildings for Part L Compliance
This seminar will cover the following topics:
- Drivers for changes in airtighness levels.
- Requirements of Part L2A 2013.
- Impact of air-tightness performace.
- Assessment of steel building envelope systems.
- Achieving airtightness for differenct building envelope systems.
- Correct and incorrect detailling and its impact.
- Site practice and installation.
- Case studies.
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
Part L: 2010/2013: the Role of the Building Envelope in Compliance for Buildings other than Dwellings
Approved Document L has been revised with effect from October 2010. This CPD introduces these changes and how the performance of buildings is assessed. The CPD then assesses the effect of changing different elements of the building envelope on the building CO2 emissions and then introduces alternatives to the 2010 Notional Building. Building integrated low/zero carbon energy systems which are most suitable for use with pre-finished steel are explained and how they are included into SBEM calculations. A preview of what Part L will look like later in 2013 is also provided.
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
Sustainable Low Carbon Non-Domestic Buildings
This seminar covers the following topics:
- Legislation and the drive towards zero carbon.
- General approach to low carbon buildings and basic principles.
- Materials of contruction and embodied energy.
- Deconstruction, recycling and end of life.
- In use phase and operational energy.
- Compliance with current legislation and guidance.
- Impact of the building envelope.
- Incorporating renewalbe energy.
- BREEAM overview.
- Case studies.
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
NLU- New updated version coming soon: Part L 2014 and Future Changes: The Role of the Building Envelope in Compliance for Buildings other than Dwellings
New updated version coming soon

- Drivers and review of part revisions to Approved
Document L
- Understanding the main changes to AD L2A (new build) and demonstrating compliance
- Understanding AD L2B (refurbishment) and how much improvement in energy performance can be made
- How renewable energy technologies can contribute to achieving compliance
- Cost effective compliance. Ranking the costs of building envelope enhancements against the reduction in CO2 and energy savings
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
NLU-Roof Mounted Photovoltaic Systems for Non-Domestic Buildings
This seminar will cover the following topics:
- Drivers for renewable technologies and roof mounted PV.
- Different types of PV systems.
- Factors affecting PV performance.
- Implications for roof mounted systems.
- Installation, inspection and maintenance.
- Guarantees for both PV and rood substrate.
- Financial incentives (UK Govt)
- Funding mechanisms.
- Payback periods.

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Seminar
NLU-The Five Dimensions of Standing Seam
This CPD provides an overview of aluminium standing seam roofing systems. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The parameters of design including geometry and aesthetics
- Relevant standards and whether projects are technically suited to standing seam roofing
- Design tools and software available to aid architects and engineers
- The use of accessories such as walkways, photovoltaics and rainscreen systems
- The innovative use of standing seam products and expected future developments
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
INCOMPLETE - Lintel Specification to Satisfy Part L Requirements
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar

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