CPD Seminars
GreenSpec offers a comprehensive collection of CPD seminars. To date, the organisation has run several hundred successful events including those involving architects, structural and civil engineers, surveyors, interior designers, contractors, interiors designers, landscape architects, planners and product manufacturers.
What people have said:
‘I have been to many sustainability events and paid lots of money and got nothing useful out of it. This is the best event I have attended. It’s about real practical things I can do something about in my work. Thank you so much!’
Helen Taylor, RIBA Council
‘Your infectious enthusiasm and detailed knowledge really drove the day and gave us a remarkable level of participation from the other delegates. Your presentations have provided us with a great deal of valuable information and food for thought.’
Matt Adams, Groundwork, Merton
‘You have really inspired us to look at the issues you brought up and I’m sure the GreenSpec website will be getting good use’
Haverstock Associates
Seminars
Below is a small sample of the seminars that GreenSpec can offer. It is by no means exhaustive and potential users should feel free to discuss their particular needs.
1 What sustainability means to you
Includes looking at definitions, differentiating sustainable from conventional construction, design, specification and materials.
2 Using GreenSpec
This seminar looks at the features that GreenSpec offers and how to use them. The various features include specifications, the checklist, product data and information sources as well as others.
3 Overcoming Barriers
This seminar investigates the barriers to adopting sustainable construction methods and how to overcome them. The seminar looks at the problems respective parties encounter in the supply and construction chain.
4 Government Drivers
This seminar identifies government and local government legislation relating to energy and sustainable construction including the Code for Sustainable Homes, the Building Regulations and Local Authority planning guidance.
5 The Sustainable Construction Checklist
Based on the GreenSpec ‘Checklist’, this seminar looks at the issues involved in making the design and construction process more sustainable.
6 Specification
Specification is a key tool of the designer of sustainable buildings. The contract specification can make the difference between the failure and success of the designer’s ambitions. This seminar examines the tools of the trade including how to integrate GreenSpec specifications with NBS.
7 Energy efficient lighting design
John Bullock, lighting designer, journalist, GreenSpec's lighting editor and experienced CPD provider offers an extensive range of user-friendly CPD in an area that is often seen as 'difficult' for non-experts. John is well versed in low-energy design and adds: 'The drive to low energy sources must not be allowed to cloud the important issue of lighting quality. New light sources are being launched every day, it seems. But who knows what they do, how they should best be used? '
8 Manufacturers’ Claims
This seminar examines the claims manufacturers make concerning the environmental credentials of their products. It explains how manufacturers mislead and obfuscate and identifies how you can sort out ‘the wheat from the chaff’.
9 The Costs of Going Green
This seminar looks at the real and perceived costs involved in producing a sustainable building including overcoming barriers presented by clients and quantity surveyors, value engineering and lean construction.
10 Lean Construction
This seminar examines the processes that generate resource efficiency in the construction process from co-ordination of production information, health and safety through to waste elimination.
11 Refurbishment
Too often looked upon as new-build’s poor relation, refurbishment has a vital contribution to make to the carbon reduction agenda. This seminar examines the various initiatives dedicated to developing construction methodologies applicable to a wide range of buildings.
12 Waste Management in Design, Construction and Use
Millions of tonnes of construction waste have traditionally headed from site to landfill. But things are changing. On the one hand government legislation promoting recycling and on the other there is the realisation that there is money to be made from reducing waste. This seminar looks at the evolving legislative landscape and examines the tools for reducing waste from production and packaging through to lean design and site waste disposal.
13 Reclamation and Reuse
There is a massive potential to reuse building materials arising from unwanted buildings. There is an already sizeable market in reclaimed materials that runs parallel to the construction industry. Yet reclamation rarely engages with the supply change. This seminar examines the barriers involved in specify reclaimed materials together with ways of overcoming them.
Seminar Costs
• 1-2 hour CPD seminars are charged at £250 plus VAT plus travel.
Please note that GreenSpec CPDs are provided by practising architects and specifiers and are not industry-sponsored or building-product related.
Contact
Please contact GreenSpec for further information using the form below. GreenSpec seminars cover many hundreds of green construction topics - please feel free to describe your particular requirements.
