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Olton Bridge

245 Warwick Road
Solihull
West Midlands
B92 7AH
www.thefis.org
Joe Cilia
Tel +44 (0)7795 958 780
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Finishes and Interiors Sector Ltd

Overview

FIS represents companies involved in all aspects of interior fit-out. With 1,123 offices nationwide and a combined workforce of over 38,000, members carry out over 65% of the work involved in the UK commercial interior fit-out, refurbishment and retrofit sector worth over £4.3bn.
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CPD Material (16)


Literature
Fire stopping service penetrations, a design and installation guide
This best practice guide has been produced to assist in the design, specification and installation of building services penetrations through fire compartment walls and floors in new buildings to ensure that fire compartmentation is maintained. Cavity barriers and linear seals are excluded from the scope of this guide. This guide is based on Building Regulations current in England at the time of writing and will provide you with a greater understanding of:
- The design process for the selection of firestopping of service penetrations
- The nine golden rules and how to apply them
- The importance of early engagement at Stage 1
- The terms and definitions used in fire stopping
- The key questions to ask to ensure a compliant installation of firestopping
- How to define roles and responsibilities
- How to use a fire strategy drawing
- How to read the data provided by the fire stopping manufacturer to ensure a compliant installation at design
- How to design service openings
- How to select compliant fire stopping products.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Multiple CPD formats
Selection of Top Fixings for Suspended Ceilings
This seminar aims to help delegates:
- Why ceilings collapse
- The selection process using ‘approach to safe anchorage’
- When preliminary testing is required
- The terminology used in the selection process
- The importance of correct installation of the fixing
- That fixings should be tested after installation using a proof test

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
A Guide to Office Acoustics
The guide promotes best practice in the design and installation of acoustic solutions in offices. It encompasses the need of a range of audiences, including first time office occupiers, clients, specialist contractors, suppliers, designers, architects, and acousticians.

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Multiple CPD formats
A Guide to Office Acoustics
To promote best practice in the design and installation of acoustic solutions in offices.
- It has been designed to encompass the needs of a range of audiences, from first time office occupiers to designers architects and acousticians.


This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Material type: Online Learning
Multiple CPD formats
Guide to Partitions
This seminar will provide information on:
- How partitioning is being used in a wide range of commercial, healthcare, education, retail and leisure environments
- Different types of systems, from drywall to jointed glass, bi panel monobloc, and timber variants
- Guidance on perfomance to meet current regulations, and the performance requirements of the health and education sectors
- How products are tested in laboratories
- How to specify systems using NBS clauses to ensure they perform on site
- New trends and technologies
- Case studies showing innovative solutions developed from workshop sessions

This CPD can be delivered to you live and remotely.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Online Learning
Material type: Seminar
Literature
Site Guide for Glazed Partitions
Specifiers will learn about:
- The different types of glass
- Glazing and safety requirements
- Fire regulations and acoustics performance
- The interaction with the main finishing and service trades
- Good installation practice
- Meeting performance criteria
- Health and safety aspects including CDM and site safety
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Site Guide for Raised Access Flooring
This literature will provide information on:
- The structural grade of raised access flooring
- The height of the raised access floor above the subfloor
- The method of covering the raised floor surface
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Site Guide for Wallcoverings
This aims to help the architect or specifier to understand the different types of wallcoverings, identify surfaces and understand preparation and application methods. It will also aid their understanding of the requirement of the contractor as a member of the construction team, and thus help the architect or specifier to specify better.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Site Guide for Suspended Ceilings
This aims to help the architect or specifier understand the different types of suspended ceiling and construction requirements of a chosen suspended ceiling system, and aid their understanding of the requirements of the ceiling contractor as a member of the construction team, and thus help the architect or specifier to specify better.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Site Guide For Partitioning
This provides a greater knowledge of the types of, proper use and installation of relocatable partitioning to assist the architect or specifier to specify better and prevent incorrect or unsafe application and practices.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Site Guide for Drylining
This aims to help understand the different types of drylinings and how they are used to subdivide internal space using lightweight internal partitions, to line ceilings and to line the internal face of external walling. It will also aid their understanding of the requirements of the drylining contractor as a member of the construction team, and thus help the architect or specifier to specify better.
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature
Literature
Factfile
The factfile includes information sheets covering the major issues relating to interior design:

- information sheet index
- membership directory and association profile
- services helplines and useful contacts
- contractual and legal matters relevant to interiors such as regulations and standards
- health and safety matters such as policy, risk assessment, environmental management systems, equal opportunities and accident procedures
- industry standards and technical performance, building acoustics, glass and the workplace and fire safety
- interior products, glass and glazing, gypsum plasterboard, partitions - terminology
- interior services and ancillary products deals with electrical cables concealed in walls and partitions, fixings for plasterboard, anchor selection and installation
- training, training available from AIS members, the Construction Industry Training Board - levy on the sector and grants available for training
- business management, A to Z guide to collecting debts by phone
- marketing, BS 4940 and technical literature for the construction industry. Classification of technical literature - a vital key to product selection and specification. National Building Specification - a tool for specifiers
- miscellaneous
Knowledge level:
General Awareness
Material type: Literature

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Finishes and Interiors Sector Ltd has CPD Materials in the following areas: -

RIBA Core Curriculum areas