Compliance vs Performance: Navigating Regulatory and Performance Challenges in Fenestration

Description

This session tackles one of the biggest challenges in modern fenestration design: how to meet multiple and sometimes conflicting - Building Regulations without compromising real-world performance or design intent.

Aimed at architects, specifiers, and design professionals, particularly those working across RIBA Stages 2 to 4, this CPD takes a practical, not theoretical, look at the realities of getting windows and doors to perform across a wide range of regulatory demands.

The session explores how fenestration interacts with key Approved Documents, and how system choice and design strategies can support:

• Thermal performance
• Fire safety
• Secure design
• Inclusive access
• Aesthetic intent and design flexibility

even when the regulations seem to pull in different directions.

Using clear examples, we’ll look at how to balance compliance requirements with day-to-day design priorities, helping attendees understand where conflicts arise and how to make informed specification decisions that achieve both regulatory compliance and good performance in use.

To book attendance for this CPD, click below to register:

9th April | 1–2pm - Register here

23rd April | 12pm - 1pm - Register here

13th May | 1–2pm | Register here