Dyson

Sustainable architecture

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

Health, safety and wellbeing

Designing for People and Planet - The Importance of Breathing Clean Air

This seminar looks at indoor air quality and the impacts of air pollution. It's easy to take the air we breathe for granted. However, the quality of the air around us has a profound impact on our health, our environment, and even our economy. This presentation provides an overview of the sources of air pollution, the effects it can have on our health, and some steps we can take to reduce our impact on the air we share.
- The Impact of Air Quality on Health.
- The causes and components of Air Pollution.
- How to monitor air quality and why it's important, especially indoors.
- Methods of removing toxic air and pollutants.
- The importance of clean air and the role we can all play in purifying the air we breathe

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Sustainable architecture

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Seminar

What have the Romans ever done for us? Public health, well-being and sustainability in the washroom

Public awareness of washing hands to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses has increased following the Coronavirus Outbreak. This CPD covers the history of public health engineering and how problems in history were solved. It touches on personal hygiene and habits and considerations for washroom design of the future. By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:
- How public heath engineering started and why
- The building regulations applicable to public health engineering and use of BIM
- The potential consequences of poor design/engineering
- What consideration you should give to future washroom design.
This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Eat, Sleep, Work and Repeat: Circadian Disruption and Human Centric Lighting

This CPD is about human-centric lighting, we will go on a journey to understand how humans have evolved to depend on light and how we now understand more about artificial light and its effects on circadian disruption. This CPD will help you to understand the following topics:
- Human evolution, our connection to natural light and darkness
- Natural light versus artificial light
- Human visual sensitivity
- Human centric lighting applications
- The WELL Building Standard for lighting
This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Health, safety and wellbeing

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Hazardous Air: The Importance of Indoor Air Quality

This seminar looks at indoor air quality and the effects of pollution. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The importance of air quality
- Pollution factors and attitudes towards polluted air around the world
- The particulate content of polluted air
- The causes and effects of poor quality indoor air and implications for health
- How to measure air quality
This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Sustainable architecture

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

The Unseen issue with LEDs: The Cause and Effects of Flickering Lighting

This seminar looks at the problem of flickering with LED lighting. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The causes and effects of flicker
- Why flicker exists with LED lighting technology
- Health issues and occupational hazards caused by flickering lights
- Relevant regulations and standards that apply
- How flicker is measured, existing test methodologies and certifications and what good performance means in terms of flicker
This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar

Personalised Workspace: Taking Light to Task

This seminar looks at task lighting and how it can promote wellbeing in the work environment. It will help you to understand the following topics:
- The historic use of task lighting and how this has changed over time
- Specific lighting requirements for task based work
- Lighting standards and criteria that impact on task lighting
- The considerations for lighting specification and how to put guidance into practice
- The growing concern for workplace wellbeing
This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.

RIBA Core Curriculum:

Knowledge level:

General Awareness

Material type: Online Learning

Material type: Seminar