Latest CPD
Here are the latest CPD materials to have been assessed and approved by the RIBA. These include both brand new and recently-revised CPD materials.
Revolutionising Restoration
This interactive seminar reviews traditional brickmaking methods and regional brick variations across the UK, and the impact these have. Offering practical advice, it is designed to help specifiers choose the right bricks for renovation, extension and new build. Brickwork bonds, brick weathering, overcoming common problems and sustainability are also covered.
Imperial Bricks offers one of the widest ranges of traditional handmade and reclamation bricks available from a single source in the UK, with 35 styles of handmade, wire-cut and pressed bricks in both imperial and metric sizes. Extensive brick matching expertise and a bespoke ‘weathering’ and blending service ensure restoration work blends in seamlessly, with products ideal for listed buildings and conservation areas.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
Solid Surfaces for Rainscreen Facades
Create architectural designs that come to life with exterior cladding façades. This CPD seminar showcases a broad range of colours and aesthetics, giving architects the freedom to create the specific shapes, textures and effects their designs call for.
For more than 200 years DuPont has brought world-class science and engineering to the global marketplace through innovative products, materials and services. Its market-driven innovation results in thousands of new products and patent applications every year, serving markets as diverse as agriculture, nutrition, electronics and communications, safety and protection, home and construction, transport and apparel.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45-60 minutes.
Steel Rainwater Systems: the Contemporary and Sustainable Solution
This new CPD seminar examines the options for rainwater drainage, simplifies material selection and highlights the design flexibility and sustainability provided by steel systems. It includes an overview of calculations required to comply with British Standards, decisions involved in specification detailing, and solutions to common design issues.
Lindab has manufactured and supplied steel guttering for over 50 years. Its range includes preferred-brand steel rainwater systems, offering simplicity of installation, expert support and unrivalled quality achieved from component designs, perfected and refined through experience.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
Warm Water Underfloor Heating: A Guide for Architects and Specifiers
This CPD presentation is designed to help architects understand the potential benefits of specifying warm water underfloor heating systems, as opposed to traditional radiators; from freedom of design to greater energy-efficiency and lower heating bills.
Polypipe Underfloor Heating is part of Polypipe Building Products, one of the UK’s leading manufacturers of underfloor heating and plastic plumbing products. Polypipe is the expert in plastic piping. Last year the company made 22 million metres of it – enough to circle the globe more than five times.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.