RIBA CPD Showcase

Roof finishes

The following CPD materials have all been assessed and approved by the RIBA.
This seminar helps the architect to choose the right roofing system to meet his or her client’s requirements. Using an eight step process, it looks at how to establish the client’s brief, ensure compliance, make the right cost decisions, and take the risk out of roof design.

SIG Design and Technology is a part of SIG UK Exteriors, a leading division of SIG plc, which is itself a FTSE 250 listed company and one of the UK’s market-leading specialist suppliers to professionals in the building and construction industry. SIG Design and Technology designs and supplies flat and green roofs, as well as zinc, copper and stainless steel roofing and cladding. Know-how is FOC to customers.

Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: one hour.
The demand for inverted roofs, insulated balconies and terraces has never been greater, yet most architects have limited experience in these areas due to decades of specifying warm roofs. This seminar provides the foundations upon which architects may specify them with confidence, including: design and construction considerations; standards; the application of hot melt monolithic waterproofing systems, and; surface finishes options, including green roofs.

Radmat is an independent British company that provides a versatile range of advanced roofing and waterproofing systems. Radmat’s high-performance waterproofing materials are used industry-wide and are marketed via specification assistance to architects, consulting engineers and quantity surveyors. The company is committed to providing superior roofing and structural waterproofing products, and combines this with exceptional technical support to the specifier and the construction team.

Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45-60 minutes.
Common issues associated with flat roofs, such as persistent leaks, lap joint failures, long installation times and risks from hot works, are simply not an issue when using the right liquid systems. This seminar introduces and appraises three common types of liquid applied system and provides guidance for their specification that will assist any architect seeking long-term flat roofing solutions.

Since 1984 Polyroof has been manufacturing cold applied liquid roofing systems for the UK and international flat roofing markets from its headquarters in Flintshire, North Wales. Polyroof provides expert technical services to specifiers, clients and contractors across the globe.

Approximate duration excluding time for questions/answers: 45 minutes.
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