Latest CPD
Here are the latest CPD materials to have been assessed and approved by the RIBA. These include both brand new and newly revised CPD materials.
This seminar aims to give a better understanding of ventilation technologies that can improve indoor air quality in an energy-efficient way, explaining the differences between background and intense ventilation and the solutions that can be provided. The presentation also suggests a number of ways to prevent overheating within homes, aiming to do this while maintaining architectural unity.
Renson is a Belgian family-run business with a 106-year track record of entrepreneurship and innovation. Renson invites you to be inspired by its dedication to ongoing innovation as it continues to evolve its line of building systems. Providing solutions for better indoor air quality and energy efficiency, Renson also offers attractive, design-focused products that can facilitate almost limitless visual realizations of a project.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This presentation covers all aspects of working with zinc. This includes the history and development of the alloy, and how the continuous rolling process revolutionised the production of the material we know today.
The seminar also looks at sustainability, ecology and the unique properties of zinc, and touches on roof and façade design and detailing, and the products fabricated from this inspiring material.
Providing good information and technical support has been the key to RHEINZINK’s success. The company prides itself on being a market leader and working with many of the UKs architectural practices. Its aims are to ensure that its material is installed to the highest standards, and that the levels of crafting it requires are maintained throughout.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour
This seminar guides the specifier through the need for better indoor air quality. It also details the energy savings that can be achieved in commercial buildings by implementing a ventilation strategy that encompasses mechanical ventilation with heat recovery.
By explaining the principles of operation and variants in equipment design, drivers encouraging specification, and the regulatory landscape, the specifier will achieve a better understanding of the features and benefits that this technology can deliver.
Airflow Developments of High Wycombe has been designing and producing ventilation solutions for over 60 years. From extractor fans for the private home to commercial air handling units with heat recovery for tower blocks, Airflow Developments has an air movement product to deliver quiet, energy-efficient ventilation whatever the application.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes
This seminar is designed to help specifiers understand the provenance, manufacturing process and potential applications of Welsh slate as a building material. It will explain the advantages and problems with slate, and highlight the differences between slates from around the world. Also covered will be standards, accreditations, classifications and fixing methods.
Welsh Slate is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of a high-quality slate that is suited to an unparalleled range of design-led applications. The inherent beauty and qualities of slate have resulted in its specification and use by architects, developers and interior designers. In recent decades new sources of slate have come into production from around the world, but none come even close to matching the appearance and performance of Welsh slate.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour