Featured CPD
Our handpicked selection of CPD seminars covers a broad range of subjects, from handmade carpets to fire protection.
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Explores the fire performance of composite cladding panels for building façades, including: the requirements of the Building Regulations Part B, insurance requirements and principles, fire tests and relevant standards (including BS 8414 and EN 13501-1), issues surrounding boundary conditions and buildings in excess of 18m, external surface requirements, and installation.
Trimo creates highly efficient, sustainable, architectural wall and roof systems with a non-combustible core. The company’s focus is on delivering high quality systems that are simple, fire-safe, and meet or exceed clients’ most varied needs.
In ‘After dark – light and the nightscape’, Dominic Meyrick discusses how good lighting after dark can transform the night scene with lifestyle-changing results. Topics covered include the nightscape as a blank canvas, building security with light, creating people-friendly spaces, and indoor and outdoor lighting inspiration.
Dominic Meyrick (MSc Light and Lighting) – who presents this seminar – is a Hoare Lea director and passionate advocate of light as an architectural tool. His seminar is one of a four-part series.
Hoare Lea is an award-winning firm of consulting engineers specialising in mechanical, electrical and environmental engineering.
Duration: one hour, plus Q&A
A seminar about glass sliding doors. Discusses how spaces can be transformed and optimised through the use of sliding doors, the differences between standard and glass sliding doors and their component parts (including sustainability), and relevant UK regulations and standards.
Lualdi is a leading Italian brand, known worldwide for its interior door designs and collaborations with important contemporary designers. Founded in 1859, Lualdi remains focussed on quality, innovation and service – and on delivering the very best interior and fire-rated doors, sliding partitions, custom-made furniture and mill work.