Live online seminars
With digital interactive platforms such as Zoom, GoToMeeting and Microsoft Teams replacing face-to-face seminars due to ongoing lockdown restrictions, we’ve included a selection of live online seminars here, to help you stay safe.
This seminar explores the basic principles of urban design and how they influence the selection of hard landscaping products, illustrating each point with case study examples. It also includes details of regulatory compliance and sources of further information.
Brett Landscaping works hard to share its expert knowledge on paving with architects, engineers and designers to help them achieve the best looking, most durable and cost-effective paving solutions.
Duration: 45 minutes, plus Q&A
A look at the tiling of floors above living spaces, and the Building Regulations’ thermal and acoustic requirements in relation to flooring. Includes advice and guidance on why tiling floors above other living spaces can be problematic, why some types of floors are unsuitable for tiling, and some measures to address this.
Marmox (UK) Ltd is part of the CMB group, which was founded in the 1970s and now manufactures innovative building products and specialist insulation materials for the construction and refurbishment industries. Products include tile back and internal wall insulation boards, floor-level shower bases, thermal and acoustic installation boards, and of course impact sound insulation boards, to name just a few.
Duration: one hour, plus Q&A
An insight into the history, production and sustainability of zinc roofing and cladding. This wide-ranging discussion addresses not only aesthetics and systems, but also substrate, backing frames and detailing questions. Also covered is certification, procurement, budgets and how to identify qualified contractors able to correctly install your specified systems.
VMZINC has been manufacturing a wide range of rolled zinc products, used primarily for building envelopes, since 1837. In addition to zinc batten cap and standing seam roof systems, VMZINC’s product range includes zinc rainwater systems and a wide range of cladding systems. Since its inception the company has also produced decorative zinc roofing products such as dormers, bull's eyes, weathervanes, finials and balustrades.
Duration: 45 minutes, plus Q&A