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.
Classified as machines under the European Machinery Directive, automatic doors are covered by regulation EN 16005, which sets out the standards and specifications required when operating and maintaining door-sets, their protective devices and safety systems. This seminar helps the specifier to understand the legislation, danger points and safety requirements covering sliding, swing, folding and revolving doors.
In addition to record uk’s classic sliding, swing and revolving doors, its range includes thermally-efficient designs, extra security features for prevention of burglary or forced entry, toughened glass entrances, hermetically-sealed units for sound insulation or hygienic environments, and doors with fire protection and specialist cores. record uk also offers bespoke solutions to help turn visionary and architecturally-inspired designs into reality.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.
This CPD seminar examines the options available to the specifier when designing safety and security into a site, and aims to provide him or her with a thorough understanding of the available technology, and the knowledge necessary to configure the most appropriate solution for the client. Learning aims include: the reasons for using entrance control, supplementation of manned guarding by technology, how to integrate security equipment into a building, integration into design, and the reasons for using vehicle control.
Based on industrial experience spanning more than 40 years, Automatic Systems designs and manufactures entrance control equipment. Its product portfolio complements security entrance lanes, swing gates, tripod and full-height turnstiles, interlocking doors and detection units, barriers, rising bollards and road blockers.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
This seminar looks at the manufacture and specification of HPL (high pressure laminate), including types, sizes, grades and finishes. It provides information on the manufacturing process and identifies opportunities, benefits and uses in the built environment. Specifiers will gain a better understanding of how to specify HPL, as well as relevant standards and key features that make different variants suitable for a range of applications and sectors.
Formica laminate is the ‘original’, with over 100 years’ product innovation and manufacturing experience. Formica Group globally leads the industry in the design, manufacture and distribution of innovative surfacing products for commercial and residential applications – particularly doors, washrooms, furniture and countertops.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
This CPD seminar has been created with specifying architects in mind. It presents the audience with a fascinating technical insight, identifying the details that make the difference and the pitfalls to be avoided when specifying cubicles and lockers for sports and leisure projects. Topics covered include: full-height, suspended, framed and unframed cubicles; privacy solutions; specialist fixings; BREEAM, and sustainability.
Prospec is a UK market leader in glass and SGL lockers and cubicles for the leisure and sports sector. With a heritage that dates back more than a century, Prospec has an impressive portfolio of innovations, including glass squash courts, glass cubicles and glass door lockers. Prospec products are highly engineered and suitable for high-end specifications and demanding environments.
Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 40 minutes.