Designing High-Performing Building Envelopes with Insulated Panels
Step into the world of Insulated Panels with this educational CPD that looks at how panels meet strict building codes and regulatory requirements while achieving sustainability standards.
– Kingspan
From Dew Point to Design Solutions: Designing for Condensation Risk
Condensation is a common but often overlooked risk in building envelopes, leading to mould growth and costly issues in new buildings when not properly addressed. This CPD explains how to measure, monitor, and prevent condensation to protect building performance and longevity.
– Kingspan
Beyond the Spark: Designing for Fire Safety with Insulated Panels
Insulated panel systems offer an efficient, high-performance solution for modern construction, combining strong thermal performance, long spans, and fast installation. This CPD focuses on how these systems can be designed to meet NCC fire safety requirements by outlining key risks, relevant standards, and compliant solutions for architects, even in higher-risk applications.
– Kingspan
Specifying Concrete Floor Coatings
The CPD discusses the need to identify the correct concrete floor treatment and coating design while taking into account structural design considerations and potential risks for concrete floor treatments and coatings in planning, development and construction. Covers the importance of material selection to meet coating design and application requirements.
– Dulux
Design of Protective Coatings to AS/NZS 2312.2
Assess protective coatings design solutions against project brief and National Construction Code (NCC) performance requirements to AS/NZS 2312.2. Prepare and analyse protective coatings system options in response to project brief. Identify the importance of utilising specialist protective coatings consultants throughout the design and constructions process.
-Dulux
The Link Between Building Facades and Sustainability
EQUITONE invites architects, designers, and building professionals to join our latest CPD presentation on sustainability in the building industry. This comprehensive session is designed to provide you with the knowledge and insights necessary to integrate sustainable practices and materials into your projects.
-Equitone
Protective Topcoat Technologies and Colour Stability
Evaluate the different types of topcoat technology in the marketplace. Identify how coating technology and colour choice will impact the durability of the coating. Determine what is the best topcoat material selection for your project.
-Dulux
Designing interior wall and ceiling linings for high humidity and aquatic areas
This CPD delves into the critical role of interior wall and ceiling linings in high humidity and aquatic environments. By understanding the potential health risks associated with condensation and mould growth, we explore the importance of adhering to Australian standards for humidity design.
-Knauf
Specifying the Complete Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) & Plasterboard System
Covers the use of Cross laminated timber products in lightweight building code-compliant Wall and Floor/Ceiling systems for multi-residential buildings and other building segments. CLT is an engineered wood product that consists of multiple layers of timber planks stacked in alternating directions and bonded together with structural adhesives. Prefabricated, lightweight and harvested from sustainably managed forests, CLT walls enable fast construction with strength, stability and durability.
-Knauf
Embodied Carbon: How to identify and minimise the impact of materials without compromising system performance
How to identify and minimise the environmental impact of building materials such as plasterboard and insulation without compromising building system performance. Covers the importance of reducing embodied carbon alongside operational carbon; the role of material selection in reducing embodied carbon, and the role of life cycle analysis in providing specifiers with the information needed to accurately assess products during selection.
-Knauf