DCM Surfaces

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Specifying Playground Safety Surfacing

This seminar is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of the different types of play safety surfacing. Participants will gain valuable insights into the standards and requirements essential for safety surfacing in playgrounds.

It will guide attendees in selecting the most appropriate safety surface, focusing on options such as wet-pour, artificial grass, and rubber mulch. It will also cover the specification and installation of play safety surfacing.

By the end of this CPD, delegates ought to be able to:

1. Understand the difference between Wetpour, Rubber Mulch and Artificial Grass, and how they are installed.
2. Use skills learnt to select the most appropriate safety surface for playgrounds.
3. Use techniques shown to avoid common issues like shrinkage, UV colour changes, and surface undulations, ensuring the durability and aesthetics of the playground surfaces.
4. Understand how design and efficient layout can lead to significant cost savings while maintaining safety and quality.
5. Identify and apply Playground Safety Surfacing Standards to ensure compliance and safety in playground design and maintenance.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Bound and Bonded Gravel - Driveways and Pathways

This seminar is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of Bound and Bonded Gravel. It will guide attendees in selecting the most appropriate surface for driveways and pathways, and cover the specification and installation of each surfacing option.

By the end of this CPD seminar, delegates should:

1. Understand the difference between Bound Gravel and Bonded Gravel, and how they are installed.
2. Have learnt how to select the most appropriate outdoor surface for pathways and driveways.
3. Know the techniques to avoid common issues like UV colour changes, surface crumbling, and surface undulations, ensuring the durability and aesthetics of the outdoor surface.
4. Understand the meaning and importance of SuDs compliant surfacing.
5. Be able to identify and apply surfacing standards to ensure best practice in outdoor surface design and maintenance.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Permeable Pathways & Canal Towpaths - SuDS compliant surfacing

This seminar is designed to offer a comprehensive overview of SuDS compliant surfacing solutions. It will guide attendees in selecting the most appropriate surface for pathways and canal towpaths, and cover the specification and installation of each surfacing option.
By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:
- The difference between Bound Gravel and Rubber Gravel Mix, and how they are installed.
- The skills to select the most appropriate outdoor surface for pathways and canal towpaths.
- Techniques to avoid common issues like UV colour changes, surface crumbling, and surface undulations, ensuring the durability and aesthetics of the outdoor surface.
- The meaning and importance of SuDS compliant surfacing.
- How to identify and apply surfacing standards to ensure best practice in outdoor surface design and maintenance.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Decorative Gravel Surfacing for Paths and Driveways

This CPD provides an overview of various types of decorative surfacing for paths and driveways. It covers key features of bound gravel and bonded gravel, how to achieve a long-lasting, high-quality finish and avoid UV colour changes, cracking and shredding of the surface. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- Which decorative gravel surface is right for a particular application
- How to confidently specify a decorative gravel surface
- How decorative gravel surfacing is installed
- Warranties and how decorative gravel surfacing is maintained

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar