Protective treatments
From fire retardant treatments for timber based products, to corrosion protection of steel by hot dip galvanizing, to steel powder coatings. Modern protective treatments don’t just come in all types and formats, they even form part of the design and presentation of modern architecture.
Provides an overview of how colourful decoration and long term protection may be added to architectural aluminium and galvanised steel components by showing how architectural powder coatings are manufactured and applied, and illustrating the tests used to ensure product quality both in manufacture and application.
Valspar Corporation is a worldwide coating manufacturer. In the UK its Syntha Pulvin brand is the best known and most specified system for architectural powder coating. It has been decorating and protecting buildings for more than 40 years.
This 45-minute seminar offers a practical introduction of galvanizing and includes information on: the galvanizing process, coating characteristics and performance, designing for the process, sustainability and project library.
Galvanizers Association (GA) has provided authoritative information and advice on hot dip galvanizing to users and potential users since it was first established in 1949. For many years this information has been used to educate and inform professionals within the construction industry. This has included the provision of CPD material that the association has been providing for well over 25 years. More recently GA has been a founder member of the RIBA CPD Providers Network and has continued to provide presentations and information for new generations within the industry.