Featured CPD
Our hand-picked selection of CPD materials this month encompasses solar shading, lighting, steel windows and doors, and curtain walling.
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A guide to curtain walls – the outer covering of a building designed to keep the weather out in the most aesthetically pleasing way. Explores: the design, detailing and delivery of curtain walling, alongside its purpose, performance and construction; what your system supplier of choice should be offering, and what questions to ask of them; how curtain walling interfaces with the surrounding structure; and, how external influences can affect the design of curtain walling.
Senior Architectural Systems (SAS) manufactures a wide range of high-performance aluminium, timber composite and glazing systems for use in new-build and refurbishment projects.
Discusses the application of integrated systems for doors, windows, shutters and façades in galvanized steel, stainless steel, Corten or weathering steel and brass, to guarantee maximum levels of sustainability, comfort and wellbeing.
Secco is an Italian company and a leader in the production of systems for windows and doors made of galvanized steel, stainless steel, Corten steel and brass.
Duration: 30 minutes, plus Q&A
This seminar explains what brise soleil (solar shading) is, how it reduces energy bills in summer and winter, its various functions (including shading, reducing heat gain, privacy screening and glare reduction), aesthetics, how the latest revisions to Part B: Fire Safety impacts on solar-shade design, and design considerations to ensure functionality.
For over 40 years Dales has designed and manufactured an extensive range of standard and bespoke non-combustible aluminium products, including complete eaves systems, brise soleil/solar shading systems, copings and rainscreen claddings.
Dales offers an unrivalled design service to assist you with your design and specification process (an additional charge may apply). Dales holds full professional indemnity insurance and is ISO 9001:2015 accredited.
Duration: 45-55 minutes, plus Q&A