With more technology available to interior and architectural designers, the traditional approach to developing commercial projects is moving to exciting levels.
Your workflow is no longer just about providing 2D drawings and details; great visualizations and smart take-offs can all be a part of your design process. BIM for interiors is a more thoughtful way to design, organize, and face today’s challenges in the industry.
In this presentation — inspired by an elegant retail interiors project located in Tokyo by designers Mana & Takashi Kobayashi, IMA Inc. — Luis M. Ruiz, Int. Assoc. AIA, will discuss how you can increase your efficiency and win more work with an integrated data-driven 3D modeling process.
- Discover how data-driven workflows can impact the project’s bottom line by integrating a more effective design process.
- Understand the use and benefits of interior-specific parametric tools that you need to optimize the creation of your design presentations and project documentation.
- Learn how to effectively set up and organize a project file to streamline the adoption of a 3D workflow.
- Explore the differences between 2D and 3D approaches for your design process, and learn how you can better implement a 3D workflow for your firm.
This CPD by Croner will explore the trends you can expect to see coming in 2023 to prepare your business for the year ahead.
Join Amanda Chadwick to find out what issues businesses like yours are seeking guidance on. Find out how you can use this to take a proactive approach, and how you can protect your business and people.
These exclusive sessions are free for SBID members. Get in touch for your association number.
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This CPD by Croner will discuss how to deal with absences and conduct around the Christmas period, providing valuable advice for employers and business owners.
These exclusive sessions are free for SBID members. Get in touch for your association number!
This CPD webinar by Croner will discuss the fall of the pound and how it affects the industry, as well as present some valuable advice for employers and business owners.
The Croner advisory team have recently analysed their call interactions with members and clients. With this, we have built an exclusive, member-only session to assist you with the biggest issues facing UK businesses right now.
Topics covered include:
- The pound falls
- Industry reaction
- A pay rise flurry
- How to address the increase in demand
- The cost of living and retention
- Do existing benefits already meet employee needs?
- Helping employees help themselves
- Getting more from the workplace
- Managing costs
- Changing terms and conditions
- Lay-off and short time working
- What is redundancy?
- Preparing for redundancy
- Collective consultation & Individual consultation
- Employees wellbeing during redundancy
- Looking after (soon to be) ex-employees
These exclusive sessions are free to SBID members. Get in touch for your association number.
This CPD webinar by Croner will discuss the importance and characteristics of a good HR team, explore employee policies, laws and regulations, and provide useful guides for managing your business.
- Understanding performance management
- Why a line manager shouldn’t “double up” and do HR
- Making time for staff issues and employee policies
- Staff training, support and retention to aid business growth
- Protecting the mental health of your staff
- Why an untrained HR team could be costly to owners
- How to meet employment law regulations
- Simple steps to improve equality, diversity, and inclusion in small teams
- A total guide to SSP (Statutory Sick Pay)
- A total guide to Holiday Pay
- How to resolve conflict whilst legally protecting your business
The CPD webinar by GRAFF will provide an overview of three key elements that can enhance our daily lives: water, wellness and sustainability.
Starting with water as a precious and essential natural resource to its role in bringing us wellness, the session will focus on the origins of wellness through today’s WELL concepts and to how to integrate wellness in design projects. Lastly, GRAFF discuss how wellness through water can be delivered in sustainable ways.
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Parklex Prodema is hosting an exclusive CPD event with presentation at Basque Living London, where they will discuss the aspects and considerations of specifying and installing wood panels in extremely wet areas.
Areas of discussion will include:
- What is an extremely wet area?
- Products usually installed in these areas.
- The use of wood in construction of wet areas.
- What is an HPL?
- When do we need substructure?
- Health & Safety certificates.
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GRAFF and SBID together with Ripples Bathrooms Chelmsford are pleased to be hosting an interior designer and architect exclusive event as part of a CPD Roadshow on Water, Wellness and Sustainability.
The CPD seminar will provide an overview of three key elements that can enhance our daily lives: water, wellness and sustainability. Starting with water as a precious and essential natural resource to its role in bringing us wellness, the session will focus on the origins of wellness through today’s WELL concepts and to how to integrate wellness in design projects. Lastly, GRAFF discuss how wellness through water can be delivered in sustainable ways.
There is an exciting prize at the end of the evening. Everyone attending will automatically enter a prize draw. We will randomly select a lucky invitee to award them with our most sought after basin tap/mixer from our collection Harley.
Please bring along your business card in order to participate at this amazing prize draw.
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50% of all work-related ill health in 2020/21 was work-related stress, depression, or anxiety.
Packed with hints, tips and guidance from HR experts, this free event guarantees to equip you with essential inside knowledge in just a few short hours. Knowledge that could make a real difference to your company’s wellbeing and performance.
Learning to adapt is key to business success, so make sure you get it right first time.
Join the seminar to find out:
- What is Mental Health?
- Signs of poor mental health
- Managing Staff with Mental Health Issues
- Managing Absence
- Mental Health First Aiders
It's completely free for business owners and directors and there's no obligation to you or your business.
Places are limited to 2 places per company, registrations required.
Only a few days before London Design Festival returns on Saturday 17 September! For a whole week, LDF will celebrate and promote the city as a design capital on the global stage, offering an expansive programme of over 13 design disciplines, ranging from digital design and art, to landscape, interiors and materials.
Are you ready to dive into the world of design? Read the SBID's helpful guide to the festival to plan your diary, get inspired and engage with the design industry. Ensure you don't miss any important events and CPD sessions from SBID members!
London Design Festival 2022
Where: Multiple venues across London
When: 17 - 25 September
Arper joins LDF in celebrating the city’s creativity in newly restyled London showroom to present its latest 2022 collections with a range of engaging events and creative activities across Clerkenwell Design Trail.
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An immersive installation of pioneering designs showcases objects developed by Zaha Hadid Design over the past 15 years. The exhibition fills the sculptural spaces of the striking gallery designed by Zaha Hadid Architects in 2011.
Kohler invites you to explore their recently refurbished London showroom in Clerkenwell, attend an exclusive Breakfast Meeting with networking, talk and tour, and discover the latest product innovations in the KBB sector.
Parkside are hosting a Breakfast Club with live CPD event alongside fresh pastries and coffee as part of the Clerkenwell Design Trail! Unlock knowledge on tiling patterns, innovations in sustainable materials and how to specify bespoke surfaces.
House of Rohl's networking brunch in partnership with SBID will bring together a collection of luxury kitchen and bathroom brands and provide an opportunity to meet peers and exchange ideas.
VitrA London showroom will run a series of free virtual reality CPD experience sessions, where they will turn bathroom designs into 4-D, enabling people to explore a fully immersive virtual bathroom space.
RAK Ceramics Design Hub is an interactive and immersive environment to inspire - explore the latest in bathroom designs, materials, finishes and colours with exclusive showroom tour, showcasing RAK Ceramics ranges, kitchen taps, and brassware.
Drop by Karndean's Commercial Showroom to grab a mocktail or a bite to eat, meet the team and view an exclusive collection preview - take a first look at their new abstract flooring designs launching this autumn!
EDGE presents a variety of products, installations, CPDs, workshops, talks and events surrounding sustainable design, highlighting the industry's best in circular products and materials for living and working spaces.
VitrA is hosting an immersive colour experience using artwork by Carnovsky, which experiments with the interaction between colour in print and light form.
Bolon is showcasing their latest products, celebrating the launch of new colour palettes for their bestselling collections, and holding a variety of talks on sustainability during the London Design Festival week.
The art of high-tech returns as Cosentino celebrates breathtaking new collections at the Cosentino City Showroom. Presenting award-winning carbon neutral materials with 'DJ Nadia Noudle' and tapas.
Bolon is hosting a CPD session led by Bolon’s visionary Head of Sustainability Håkan Nordin to learn about how Bolon’s experience in sustainable design has informed their approach and understanding of the circular economy today.
EDGE (Eco Design Green Environment) is celebrating their first anniversary with a short talks programme focusing on sustainability and regenerative thinking.
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