Latest CPD
Here are the latest CPD materials to have been assessed and approved by the RIBA.
This presentation covers the specification of conventional and balanced flue gas fires, as well as solid fuel fires. It addresses potential pitfalls and provides examples of innovative solutions, including a demonstration on how to install a balanced flue gas fire almost anywhere, while still taking into account relevant legislation.
DRU is one of the leading manufacturers of gas and solid fuel fires in Europe. 160 years old this year, its reputation has evolved through providing designer and functional heating solutions for a host of installation situations. DRU is an innovative company, in terms of both its design and fluing solutions.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
What is a raised access floor system? This seminar answers that question, as well as providing information on the features and benefits of raised access floor systems, their applications, finishes and installation, plus specification guidance.
Kingspan Access Floors is a world leader in the access flooring sector. It supplies and installs access flooring for a variety of uses, including computer and meeting rooms, data processing centres and offices. Kingspan’s track record dates back to 1903. Today, its workforce boasts a combined total of more than 2,000 years’ service and experience in the industry. Together, they have helped add the finishing touches to some of the most prestigious buildings in the UK, and throughout the world.
Kingspan Access Floors is ISO 9001:2008 accredited for both its manufacturing and installation operations. Its highly automated factory in Hull can produce more than 170,000 floor panels per week – all designed and manufactured to the latest, and highest, industry standards.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes
This seminar will assist architects and specifiers understand the need for fire protection for structural steel, the different methods of achieving it, how intumescent coatings work, how their thickness is calculated, and how they have been developed over the years, together with examples.
Akzo Nobel Group is one of the largest paint and coatings manufacturers in the world. For over 35 years its brands have provided anti-corrosive and aesthetic fire protection for steel structures in industrial markets such as power, oil and gas, chemical, mining and bridges.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 35-40 minutes
This CPD seminar focuses on the weather resistance and strength of fibre-cement structural floor boards that can be specified in place of chipboard or concrete floors. It also examines some of their other features, including thermal performance and the facility to tile direct. Finally, the seminar shares the results of laboratory tests that compare fibre-cement boards to alternative products.
James Hardie is a world-leading manufacturer of fibre cement building products.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour