Climate
The following CPD materials fall within the ‘Climate – sustainable architecture’ RIBA Core Curriculum topic area.
This presentation highlights the importance of considering the health and wellbeing of a building’s occupants in its design, and identifies key elements in supporting good thermal comfort and improved indoor air quality. It demonstrates essential use of daylight and fresh air, highlights the need for refurbishment of existing building stock, and provides an introduction to the Active House principles.
For more than 70 years VELUX has led the world in the development of energy-efficient roof windows of the highest quality and durability. Its new generation of roof windows provides even better energy efficiency and increased daylight areas. The VELUX product range also includes electric/solar powered roof windows, installation products, flat roof windows, conservation roof windows, sun tunnels and sun-screening.
Approximate duration 45 minutes
This seminar provides an insight into the benefits of decentralising the Hot Water System (HWS) using Point of Use (POU) stored water heaters and instantaneous water heaters from a practical point of view, including dealing with Legionella. It includes information on how to select and correctly size the appropriate type of water heater for the application or task, and potential energy and water savings, with worked examples to illustrate what can be achieved.
As innovators of a world-leading range of instant boiling, chilled and sparkling water appliances, Zip UK also offers a full range of water heaters, from vented and unvented stored water to the instantaneous InLine range with its utility-efficient ‘bare wire’ technology.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
An in-depth guide to façade specification incorporating windows, doors and curtain walling, with particular emphasis on where things usually go wrong and how to avoid them. The seminar format encourages open discussion of value engineering and risk management, with a view to avoiding pitfalls.
Senior Architectural Systems is one of the largest privately-owned systems manufacturers in the UK, and invests heavily in research and development of products to provide enhanced thermal performance in windows, doors and curtain walling. Senior Architectural Systems is pushing to the next level the boundaries of being a sustainable manufacturer.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes