Virtual Reality Experience Sessions

VitrA runs a series of virtual reality (VR) experience sessions in their London showroom. This showroom activity uses Virtual Worlds software to transfer bathroom designs into 4-D, enabling you to experience them on a whole new level. At each session, the user will be given a VR headset to explore a fully immersive virtual bathroom space, including turning on a virtual tap and interacting with the latest bathroom collections from VitrA.

With over 50 years’ experience in the solid surface industry, Corian® Design is a leading global brand in surfacing materials for interior design and architecture. Discover the endless design opportunities afforded by solid surface with this informative CPD seminar. The CPD includes information on solid surface development, its characteristics and benefits, production to fabrication processes, current applications, properties and environmental credentials, as well as support, warranty and service infrastructure.

This CPD by Corian® Design addresses the innovative use of solid surfaces for beautiful and sustainable rainscreen façades. As a hi-tech surface offering outstanding properties for exterior building applications, this technical seminar for architects, designers and contractors explores how solid surface is being used to create some of the world’s most captivating exterior cladding and façade projects.

The seminar discusses the product characteristics of an acrylic solid surface material that make it particularly appropriate for façades including thermoforming, translucency and ease of maintenance. It provides an overview of the manufacture and installation process, especially focusing on fixing systems available to use in conjunction with solid surface materials.

To conclude the presentation, the exciting design potential of solid surface for exterior cladding is outlined, presenting real case studies, project details and examples, specialist features and videos of panel manufacturing, care and maintenance.

This Specifier's Guide to Ironmongery and Fire Safety by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) covers the issues surrounding fire safety for ironmongery and the relevant guidance and legislation that needs to be adhered to.

It covers all aspects of fire safety on site, from its definition and history, to the future of fire safety with some top specification tips and compliance advice from the GAI.

This Specifier's Guide to Ironmongery for Fire and Escape Doors by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) covers the importance of fire and escape doors and how to correctly specify architectural ironmongery for them.

The guide will provide an overview of the different types of fire and escape doors and their hardware for specification, as well as explore the maintenance of ironmongery.

This CPD seminar will take a closer look at the use of composite quartz surfaces in interior design. With an introduction to composite quartz as a material, an exploration into how it’s made, as well as its use and applications in interior design, the session will also provide useful inspiration as to the wealth of design opportunities it presents for modern interiors.

This CPD seminar will take a closer look at the use of ultra-compact surfaces in interior design. With an introduction to ultra-compact as a material, an exploration into how it’s made, as well as its use and applications in interior design, the session will also provide useful inspiration as to the wealth of unique design opportunities it presents as the future for interior surfacing.

This CPD addresses the design of wet rooms, and encompasses detailed specification considerations such as the type of tanking used, positioning of the drain and slope, and matters such as gradients and floor build up. The course focuses upon understanding the mechanics of wet rooms, so that suitable drainage depths, tiling weights, and slope gradients, can be calculated. It also explores issues such as working in spaces that have existing natural materials, such as wood or stone.

Wet rooms are hygienic, easily accessible, and practical. As such, they are being installed everywhere from domestic residences, to hotels and hospitals. Wet Room Materials focus on the science - both in terms of the mechanics of the visual and functional aesthetics. With a governing philosophy of Scandinavian design, the focus will draw on designing with simplicity and functionality.

This CPD is a comprehensive session covering leather wall applications. The session will outline the most common uses for leather wall applications, with guidance on design and installation, as well as an overview on the benefits of using leather as a sustainable resource. You will learn how to effectively specify and get creative with leather wall solutions and treatments for your interior designs.

Available on demand!

SBID members can get in touch to access the recording of this CPD activity.

This CPD seminar will cover the fundamentals of carpet design and specification to help you avoid pitfalls and ensure the project outcome meets the clients’ expectations. From the key differences and considerations in the type and application of carpet fibres, to effective methods for sampling, this session will help you understand how to specify carpets for your projects across the sectors, as well as explore ways you can get creative with the design process.