Unlocking knowledge on how to best specify bespoke surfaces, innovations in sustainable surface materials and how to use tiling patterns effectively, you can join CPD seminars during morning and afternoon sessions at the Clerkenwell Sustainability & Design Studio.
Parkside will be hosting a Breakfast Club with live CPD event alongside fresh pastries and coffee as part of the Clerkenwell Design Trail programme!
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In this CPD webinar, you will receive an overview of Luxury Residential Lighting and inspiration for how to use it on client projects to elevate their designs.
From creative design principles and luminaire specification through to control systems, technical documentation, and working with builders and electrical contractors, this presentation is packed with useful information and some fantastic 3D animated explainer videos. It will also cover how to understand zones, scenes, and dimming technologies.
A live Q&A will allow you to field your questions to Managing Director, James Ratcliffe; drawing on his 20+ years of experience in the integrated home technology world.
Finally, you can attend the virtual tour of the Homeplay Experience Centre showroom - an ideal setting to visit with clients to inspire and demonstrate all that home automation could bring to their homes.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential audio and shading.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand the basics of good lighting design
- Learn the drawbacks of LED and how to overcome them
- Identify the difference between basic and luxury lighting
- Explore zones, scenes and dimming technologies
- Know how control systems make lighting easier to use
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This immersive CPD webinar will provide an understanding on the technology and usage of automated shades in residential environments. Delivered by the home technology specialists, the session will cover everything you need to know about installing high-end shading solutions for private luxury interiors.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential lighting and audio.
- To give a broad understanding of automated shading for a luxury home
- How to integrate automated shades into the fabric of the building
- How to specify fabric for performance
- How automated shades are powered, wired and controlled
- To explain through demonstration the importance of fabric colour and openness
This CPD webinar will provide an understanding on the technology and usage of concert grade sound systems in residential environments. Delivered by the home technology specialists, the session will cover everything you need to know about installing effective high-end audio solutions for private luxury interiors.
This session forms part of a series to that also addresses luxury residential lighting and shading.
- Understanding the drivers behind the emerging trend of live music events being streamed directly to the home.
- What makes a concert grade sound system different from typical consumer sound systems.
- How to create a suitable acoustic environment for a concert grade sound system, with appropriate sound isolation.
- Examination of a case study of a residential concert grade sound system.
- To explain through demonstration, the emotion that a concert grade sound system can convey.
Hosted by key industry experts, this series of professional market and educational briefings will bring attendees up to speed on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the workplace, the opportunities that have been created and the benefits of adapting your workplace to the new reality.
Taking place online in three detailed 75-minute briefings in February and March next year, each briefing is chaired by Colin Stuart, CEO and Workplace Consultant of Baker Stuart Ltd, who will lead an expert speaker line-up that examines the opportunities and elements for an effective hybrid working strategy.
Session 1: Hybrid Working and Workplace Design - Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Session 2: Developing a Hybrid Working Strategy that Works for You - Tuesday, 28 February 2023
Session 3: Designing for Wellbeing - the Employee-centric Workplace - Tuesday, 7 March 2023
SBID members save 30% off the current price - email [email protected] for your exclusive discount code!
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Attend the Breakfast & CPD session led by Bolon’s visionary Head of Sustainability and co-founder of Greenpeace Sweden, Håkan Nordin. Håkan has been working within the sustainability industry since 1984 and has great insight and knowledge about sustainability and climate issues.
Learn about how Bolon's 70 years of experience in sustainable design has informed their approach and understanding of the circular economy today.
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The VitrA London showroom will run a series of free virtual reality (VR) experience sessions. VitrA’s Virtual Worlds software transfers bathroom designs into 4-D, enabling individuals 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.
What’s more, to coincide with the brand’s colour theme, selected settings on Virtual Worlds have been created to provide inspiration for how to incorporate colour within the bathroom.
A new resource book celebrating design and best practice has been published by the Guild of Architectural Ironmongers (GAI) for anyone involved in specifying or designing with architectural ironmongery and hardware.
The book, available as a free download at www.gai.org.uk/specifier, showcases award-winning architectural ironmongery projects and products from this year’s GAI/RIBA AI Specification Awards. As an SBID Accredited CPD learning opportunity, it also provides a source of information and reference for specifiers and designers, with articles, best practice advice, and latest updates on competence, standards, and legislation.
Among the feature articles, RIBA past President Alan Jones discusses meeting the challenges of fire performance, life safety, acoustic separation, security and user requirements in today’s ‘more for less’ construction culture.
The guide discusses the value of working with a Registered Architectural Ironmonger (RegAI) to achieve world-class project delivery, compliance, and outcomes. And there is information to help specifiers find fully qualified architectural ironmongery professionals, including a full RegAI and GAI member directory.
GAI Technical Manager Douglas Masterson said: “The GAI Specifier’s Resource Book is not just a celebration of design excellence and best practice, but a guide to some of the key issues impacting on today’s AI and wider construction sectors.
“The aim has been to produce and distribute a resource which helps architects, architectural technicians and technologists, interior designers, M&E consultants and others involved in the design and specification processes to better understand some of these issues, and underlines the importance and value of engaging with high-quality AI professionals and companies from the very earliest stages of their projects.”
The new GAI Specifier’s Resource Book 2022 is available as a free download at the link below, and also available is a series of free GAI technical specifier guides focusing on the legislation, standards and best practice involved in key areas of AI specification, from fire safety, fire and escape doors to accessibility, security and access control.
About GAI
Working as a not-for-profit professional association, the GAI supports, assures and represents architectural ironmongers, wholesalers, and manufacturers around the world. They promote the highest standards of education, technical excellence and professionalism in the sector, and promote these standards to the wider construction industry and its clients.
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As the world changes and businesses adapt, so do the office spaces that we use. More than ever, we hear about companies trying to increase efficiency of their existing office spaces and exploring new ways to entice employees back to work with a hybrid workspace.
Join a webinar with Kesoon Chance, Industry Specialist from Vectorworks UK, to discover how to build an efficient model through the fit-out process and ways in which you can showcase these changes to your clients.
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Since 1995, MAISON&OBJET has inspired generations of interior designers and retailers by maintaining a high level of creativity, diversity and excellence throughout the years with their inspiring and trend-setting design events. The lifestyle show brings together a 360°product offering; decoration, design, furniture, accessories, textiles, fragrances, the world of children, tableware. M&O showcase an excess of 3,000 international brands to over 70,000 interiors professionals twice a year in Paris.
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