Continue your professional development with our highly engaging and popular EQUITONE CPDs. The EQUITONE team have invested in its online resources to continue to support customers in every way possible during these challenging times. This is a unique opportunity for Architects and Architectural Technicians to improve their design knowledge and earn CPD credits from the comfort of your own home. We also look forward to getting back in your offices and presenting in person when possible.

The Principles & Design of Fibre Cement Rainscreen Cladding

You can request a virtual session of our RIAI approved CPD seminar The Principles & Design of Fibre Cement Rainscreen Cladding that we will host online at a time that suits you. Attendees of the presentation will be sent a RIAI approved CPD Certificate.

This CPD has been developed to help architects gain the essential knowledge to design, specify and inspect fibre cement rainscreen cladding. Attendees will gain an overview of how to choose the correct materials and systems, including fixing methods, basic detailing, getting up to date with relevant standards, including fire safety, being aware of potential problems and how to avoid them and ultimately achieve a successful rainscreen cladding system.

This CPD will help you to understand the following topics within fibre cement rainscreen cladding:

- Rainscreen principles
- Designing with fibre cement
- Specification
- Sustainability
- Choosing materials and material options
- Carrier systems and fixing methods
- Detailing
- Relevant standards, including fire classification
- Understand what makes a successful rainscreen cladding system

If you are interested in attending our CPD seminar, please complete the form below to book your spot.

NEW - Texture in Architecture

A highly engaging and thought-provoking CPD created in collaboration with materials and colour consultant Jim Biddulph and poet, broadcaster and honorary RIBA Fellow LionHeart. From nature to neuroscience, poetry to production, Texture in Architecture presents a multi-faceted overview of texture in architecture now, exploring historic milestones and related design disciplines to ask: where is texture in our built environments headed? This is an Unstructured CPD and attendees of the presentation must log their own  Unstructured CPD Activity hours for this.

The CPD looks at:

• Investigating the complex psychology underpinning our perceptions
• Exploring the foundations of texture in natural systems
• Reviewing some important textural milestones in architectural history
• The viewers approach to deploying texture in their own work

Register your interest below and our team will be in touch with you.