Join the RIBA Core CPD to keep up to date, develop knowledge and meet fellow industry professionals. Refreshments are provided at all events and you will receive a copy of the presentation for each seminar.

The 21st Century presents a number of unprecedented and interrelated global challenges. Population growth, resource depletion, including energy and water, climate change and food security are no longer the sole concern of governments or fragile communities. Instead, corporates now recognize that what were once viewed as inconsequential ‘externalities’ increasingly represent a clear threat to their current and future viability, particularly where those businesses operate extended and complex supply chains. These threats are no longer restricted solely to concerns of ‘reputational damage’, but are beginning to impact already narrow margins and challenge operational effectiveness. In addition, national and international bodies are introducing legislative burdens that require increasingly sophisticated responses from both national and international corporations.

Seminar sessions will be structured as follows:• The size of the challenge: case

studies from such client sectors as retail, construction and public procurement that highlight the reality of human rights issues in supply chains

• The business rationale for ethical sourcing: legislative developments, the role and effectiveness of activist organisations, the commercial cost of poor governance and its application to architects and their clients

• Structure for success: implementing management systems, effective stakeholder engagement, collating and analysing appropriate data, root cause analysis and pragmatic interventions.

Speaker: Chris McCann, Resilient World Chris has over twenty years’ experience in developing, implementing and managing responsible sourcing programmes for Fortune 500 companies across Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia. He is currently a member of the UK Construction Industry Coalition for Ethical Sourcing and special adviser to the Welsh government. One of a team who developed the GSCP, he has worked with the United Nations and UK government. Chris was appointed to the UK Ministry of Justice Human Rights steering committee, the Board of the UK Gangmasters Licencing Authority by the UK’s Minister for DEFRA, and the UK Equality and Human Rights Commission’s Business and Human Rights group. A Fellow of the RSA and Nuffield Scholar, his PhD thesis focuses on supply chain resilience.

Since the Health and Safety Executive’s CDM 2015 regulations came into effect, architects have been embracing the newly created Principal Designer role. This seminar will focus on issues faced by architects when advising clients in accordance with the CDM 2015 regulations.

This seminar will explore: • Advantages and restrictions

created by the flexibility that is built into legislation

• Different models of delivery and helping clients understand the impact of their choices

• Actions and engagement required at different phases of a project to successfully deliver the role

• Effects of different procurement routes and contract vs. legislation

• Types of clients and client bodies and impacts of working for domestic clients

• Different industries and sectors • Benefits of accepting CDM duties

to your practice and to your clients• The good the bad and the ugly:

scenarios and wearing different hats!

By attending this seminar you will gain an understanding of when you should be the Principal Designer, whilst discussing the topic from a legal, ethical and moral perspective. You will understand your legal obligations as a PD and learn about effective engagement techniques to ensure clients understand the impact of their decisions.

Speaker: James Addley,Capita James leads Capita’s construction Health and Safety consultancy, which includes Principal Designer and related CDM services. With a background in architecture and as a specialist in CDM, he understands the issues design houses face on a daily basis and so provides clear, sensible guidance on best practice compliance. James is an experienced practitioner, having worked on a wide variety of developments in a diverse range of sectors including many signature projects. In his career, James has also provided CDM CPD to design houses throughout the UK, both as part of his role with Capita and as a director and fellow of the Association for Project Safety.

This seminar will show you how to effectively market and sell your skills and experiences, even with limited resources and a small budget. All you require is the determination, enthusiasm and a few hours each week to set aside to winning work.

This seminar will cover:• Effective marketing: developing

a strategy and creating a pipeline of opportunities

• Establishing a target list of potential clients: based on your ideal client, location and sector

• Understanding client needs: understand their specific needs, communicate and build a relationship. The magic 3C + R formula will be explained

• Ongoing communications with the client: how to put in place a client account management process so that you may continue to develop ongoing relationships with clients, stakeholders and influencers

• Feedback, retention and referrals: the benefits of obtaining client feedback and using this feedback to create referrals and endorsement to help secure work with other potential clients.

The speaker will explain how using these techniques will increase your chances of securing more profitable work.

Speaker: Basil Sawczuk, Potentialise Basil qualified as an architect in 1979. After a string of successful wins he was encouraged to become a full-time job winner or “rainmaker”. At the multi professional firm of DGI International, Basil secured projects for many UK blue chip clients, going on to pursue an international role winning overseas work for large global clients. Basil has also been marketing director for WS Atkins Property Services and a regional law firm. More recently he became marketing, business development and bid director for a major contractor, focusing mainly on outsourced public sector work. Basil founded Potentialise in 2009, a consultancy firm advising on marketing and business development. He is the author of Marketing & Selling Professional Services, Risk Avoidance for the Building Team, and Creating Winning Bids.

The physical, economic and social impacts of flooding can be both severe and wide reaching. It is a topic that often seems insurmountable and yet increasingly pertinent at local, national and international levels. It is the manner in which the built environment is configured that may often result in a community’s vulnerability to flooding and, as such, it is an area that architects and designers can play a huge part in helping to affect change. This seminar will introduce the key principles of designing for flood resilience. It will begin by discussing the various types of flooding that can occur and explains the range of tools and techniques available for understanding flood risk contexts. Strategies for adaptation and resilience will be discussed at the catchment, community and building scale in relation to both new and existing buildings. Using case studies and worked examples, the speaker will explain how these techniques may be effectively applied.

This comprehensive session will cover:• Flood risk contexts: impacts at the

global, national and community scale

• Types of flooding: the causes, impacts and relevant strategies

• Tools and techniques for understanding flood risk and resilience: key principles and resources available

• Flood risk management: traditional and contemporary approaches, both inland and coastal

• Community level strategies: Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS), street level strategies

• Building level strategies: resistance and resilience measures for both new build and existing buildings

• Reflections on the pathway to a resilient future: opportunities and barriers to change.

Speaker: Ed Barsley, The Environmental Design Studio Ed is founder and director of the award winning design research consultancy, The Environmental Design Studio (TEDS). He previously worked for BACA Architects helping run the Climate Adaptive Neighbourhoods project, winner of the 2014 Presidents Medal for Research in Practice. Ed was also involved in writing the book Aquatecture. Since the publication, Ed has been researching flood resilience for his PhD in architecture at the University of Cambridge. He is special advisor on flood risk to Greg Clark MP and in 2016 won the Sunday Times ‘Resilient Home’ competition with the ‘Home For All Seasons’. In 2018, the RIBA will be publishing his book Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building and Community Design.

Divided into two parts, this seminar will firstly explore strategic matters, followed by the detailed aspects of preparing for tender, the process and post tender negotiations.

Each session explores: Session 1: • Different procurement routes and

their implications on the stage and type of tendering

• Possible roles for the architect in the tender process: liability to client and contractor for tender related advice and services

• Selecting the form of procurement and contract: implications for tendering

• Different types of tenders and processes, recommended procedures, requirements of different client bodies

• Tendering for different types and scales of projects, both domestic and commercial.

Session 2: • Different types of contracts, and

their implications for tendering and the tendering package

• Specialist sub-contractor’s packages and input, incorporating these into the procurement route, tender process and contractual arrangements

• Client requirements for the process and advising the client

• The tender package: key elements, procedures and responsibility for preparation

• Reviewing the tender submissions, post-tender procedure and negotiations

• How to select the right contractor? • Setting up the contract: know your

contract and what it commits you to.

Speaker: Sarah Lupton, Lupton Stellakis Professor Sarah Lupton is a partner in Lupton Stellakis and directs the Master of Design Administration and the Diploma in Professional Practice at the Welsh School of Architecture. She is dual qualified as an architect and as a lawyer. She lectures widely on subjects relating to construction law and is the author of many books including a series on JCT contracts, the Guide to the RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts, Which Contract? (new edition forthcoming in 2018, co-authored with Manos Stellakis) and the Cornes and Lupton’s Design Liability in the Construction Industry. Sarah contributes regularly to the International Construction Law Review, acts as an arbitrator, adjudicator and expert witness in construction disputes and is also chair of the CIC’s Liability Panel and the CIC Liability Champion.

You, as the architect and lead designer are ideally placed to take on the role of Passivhaus consultant and oversee and steer the integrated solutions needed to meet this challenging standard. Through the use of case studies, the speaker will share their experience through monitoring data from their completed projects, including what worked and more importantly what didn’t.

This seminar will cover:• The Passivhaus standard:

principles and approach based on built examples of both residential and commercial projects in the UK

• The architect as Passivhaus designer: an architect-lead, integrated design approach

• Key factors within the design and detailing: from the earliest stages through to completion

• What can go wrong? challenges and potential pitfalls, UK legislation and health implications

• Cost optimisation: deliver Passivhaus at standard costs and at the same time help create healthier, more productive and profitable environments

• Procurements and contracts: different procurement routes, working with contractors, impacts from different forms of contract and airtightness training

• Example Passivhaus projects: to demonstrate the flexibility and wide range of possible design solutions for different construction methods.

Speaker: Tomas Gaertner, Gale & Snowden ArchitectsTomas is a qualified architect and a director of Gale & Snowden Architects, a design led practice

specialising in regenerative architecture and mechanical engineering. In 2010 he became one of the first certified Passivhaus designers in the UK and helped deliver the UK’s first multi-residential certified Passivhaus. He has since been involved as an architect and Passivhaus designer with the delivery of more than 200 Passivhaus dwellings, offices and schools and currently works on the UK’s first Passivhaus public pool and leisure centre for Exeter City Council. Tomas is also a certified building biologist and oversees their UK seminar programme on healthy building. He is a regular speaker at the UK Passivhaus conference and Ecobuild.

Britain has entered the age of the aged! As the baby boomer generation enter retirement, we also reach a dramatic demographic turning point: 2017 has seen the ratio of non-workers to workers start to rise for the first time since the early 1980s. This seminar will explore these new challenges and how you can ‘enable’ building users through inclusive design. By attending this seminar you will also consider how you can design inclusively, including in more challenging listed buildings, and which guidance can assist with this aim. This interactive seminar will cover:• Changing population: context and

background• Different users and their needs

relating to design• Inclusive design principles,

including links to sustainability and heritage

• Good practice and considerations: case studies

• Key access issues, barriers and solutions in accessible design

• How to measure success? Requirements of legislation versus standards versus good practice guidance.

This participative seminar, comprising an interactive presentation including videos, case studies and photographs, will provide you with opportunities to ask questions and share experiences.

Speaker: Caroline Lewis, Access Design Solutions UK Caroline is director of Access Design Solutions UK, providing inclusive design advice within built, pedestrian and transport environments. After her post-graduate diploma in town planning, she began work as an access consultant in 1999. She is a member of the National Register of Access Consultants and a built environment expert at the Design Council. Having worked both in the UK and Australia, she is recognised for her provision of high-level consultancy and training services backed by policy and research expertise. Caroline is an accomplished trainer, having undertaken courses and seminars on a wide-range of access issues to varied audiences.

Speaker: Carol Thomas, Access Design Solutions UK Carol began her career as a town planner before specialising in access and inclusion. She is a leader in the development of access standards at national and international levels and is currently appointed to the project team writing a new European Standard on accessibility.

A member of the National Register of Access Consultants, Carol brings extensive experience into her consultancy and training with the ultimate aim of easing the design and development process for her clients. Carol has proven credibility within the disability sector, having worked with major disability organisations before setting up Access Design Solutions UK.

This interactive seminar will provide you with the opportunity to participate in discussions and a workshop, which will enable you to consider issues and opportunities and potential applications with your peers. The atmosphere will be relaxed, with each segment followed by a collaborative Q&A session, which will give you the opportunity to clarify issues not made clear during the presentation. This seminar includes: • Introduction exploring green

infrastructure, various categories and typologies, policies, ecosystem approach and services and water sensitive design, as well as Biophilic design

• Case studies: from around the world, global trends, including projects in London, Milan, Seoul, Portland Oregon, Singapore, Paris and Berlin

• Greening and the planning process in the UK

• Benefits and sources of evidence: including improving microclimate, cooling, sustainable drainage, climate change adaptation, improving air quality, and increasing biodiversity

• Detailed descriptions, with information on build-up, irrigation and planting and practical case studies: green roofs, green walls, rain gardens and habitat features (bird and bat boxes and insect hotels)

• Workshop: working in groups devising retrofit greening project and reporting back to all

• Conclusions, comments and questions.

Speaker: Gary Grant, Green Infrastructure Consultancy Gary Grant is a chartered environmentalist and fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management, speaker and leading expert on urban greening. He is author of Green Roofs and Facades, Ecosystem Services Come To Town and the Water Sensitive City. His clients include Natural England, The Mayor of London (Greenspace Factor Study 2017) and Lendlease. He regularly gives talks and training and speaks at conferences including Highrise Greenery Conference Singapore, EUGIC 2017, CIEEM training courses and Specifi Landscape. Previously, he has also provided climate change adaptation training for the RIBA.

A recent survey by Historic England revealed that 99.3% of people in England live less than a mile from a listed heritage asset, while the Heritage Lottery Fund reports that 80% of people think local heritage makes their area a better place to live, showing both a proliferation of and appreciation for heritage sites and historic buildings. Such sites represent an opportunity for creative design and inventive practical solutions for change, made more successful through a process of understanding the development and significance of these places and identifying potential challenges.

This seminar will include:• Assessing the significance of

places• Heritage legislation and planning • Adapting historic buildings for

new uses• Extensions and new builds within

heritage context• Practical solutions to issues

such as M&E, accessibility and sustainability.

The first session will look at how understanding historic development and significance of built fabric and setting can inform change, leading to a discussion on what practical solutions can contribute to successful design. This is followed by a workshop session, focusing on understanding the application of this process, asking you to break into groups and looking at a practical example, providing the baseline understanding of a site and asking for suggestions on sensitive but creative change. The results will be shared and discussed. The final session will conclude by showing good examples of successful projects within a heritage context.

Speaker: Heather Jermy, Purcell Heather is head of heritage consultancy at Purcell, bringing together her experience of architecture, archaeology and buildings archaeology. She specialises in the process of conservation management planning, providing strategic advice on the redevelopment and re-use of historic buildings and heritage sites. She has provided conservation and heritage management advice for sites such as the British Museum, Tower Bridge and the large-scale regeneration of the Central Police Station in Hong Kong. Heather believes that an understanding of heritage value, setting and the existing built environment provide the foundation for successful design for the future.

Speaker: Alexander Holton, Purcell An associate at Purcell, Alex joined the company in 2011 as a heritage consultant with specialisms in stone conservation and buildings archaeology, having gained his PhD from the University of York. He is a qualified building surveyor and listed property consultant. Alex applies a methodology of understanding the value of places with the practical delivery of conservation and repair. He is especially adept at recognising, managing and reconciling the dialogue between the historic value and significance of building fabric and the practical realities of decay, conservation and enhancement.

This seminar will guide you through the historic context of pre-fabrication, give an overview of the current state of off-site construction and introduce several possible future tendencies of pre-manufacturing in architecture. By attending this seminar, you will be provided with a comprehensive summary, discuss pros and cons and highlight both pitfalls and benefits of a future with offsite construction in architecture.

This comprehensive session will cover:• An introduction to the history of

off-site construction: in the UK and abroad, from the time of explorers until the prefab utopias of the post-war era

• Common prejudices and scepticism about pre-fabrication and how to deal with them

• Sustainability, efficiency and identity: possibilities of customisation, integration of context and client involvement

• When to stop designing? Application of digital design and manufacturing techniques on small scale collaborative and interdisciplinary projects, as well as research in practice

• Quality control: the benefits of off-site construction, manufacturer’s expertise and specifications

• How much control can you give away? Risks of standardisation versus creativity

• Future prospects of prefabrication in architecture: scale, materials and construction methods.

Speakers will explain these topics by presenting historic case studies, recent practice experiences and possible future trends. The latter two will be a collection of projects from various practises and researchers actively engaging with the seminar’s topic. There will be opportunities for you to ask questions and share experiences.

Speaker: Markus Seifermann, ÜberRaum Architects Before co-founding ÜberRaum Architects, Markus delivered several high-profile buildings for world-renowned practices in Toronto, Stuttgart and London. At ÜberRaum, he has led a variety of projects from concept to completion. As a director, he enjoys a collaborative working method and the positive results this process embodies. Markus gained his professional qualifications at the University of Applied Sciences in Konstanz, Germany and at UCL in London. He comes from an architectural and social background, where self-build and off-site construction is part of the cultural convention. His design approach is enriched through his love of film and the cinematic, which results in exciting architectural proposals that are dynamic and atmospheric.

Speaker: Andreas Körner, ÜberRaum Architects Andreas Körner is part of the team at ÜberRaum Architects, previously working in a practice in Austria before moving to the UK. Andreas teaches as an associate lecturer at Oxford Brookes University where he focusses on digital design and manufacturing techniques. After studying at Technical University and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he graduated from the Bartlett. He received the Max Fordham Environmental Design prize for his thesis and design projects on environmentally informed building envelopes. He is actively engaging in research about design methodologies and environmental architecture, presenting his findings at conferences and through lectures, as well as being involved in multiple international research groups.

Seminar fees and how to book

Two ways to book CPD seminars• CPD Club Ticket: one single booking for all 10 seminars• Pay-as-you-go: purchase seminars individually

CPD Club Ticket The CPD Club Ticket provides a great value structured approach to training and development for architects and other construction professionals, helping you meet your CPD obligations.

CPD Club benefits• One place at each of the 10 Core CPD seminars• A significant saving of £250 per year compared with purchasing

pay-as-you-go seminars• Flexibility to transfer your place to any one of the 13 regional venues • 25 hours of RIBA Core Curriculum training• Helps you achieve your annual RIBA CPD requirements.

Terms and conditions • CPD Club Tickets can be held by an individual or a practice • It is the ticket holder’s RIBA membership status which determines the rate • If a CPD Club Ticket is purchased by an individual RIBA member, the ticket may only be used by that person • If a CPD Club Ticket is purchased by an RIBA chartered practice, they will be charged the lower rate and the practice can send any member of staff on that ticket • If a CPD Club Ticket is purchased by a practice which is not an RIBA chartered practice, they will be charged the higher rate, regardless of the membership status of the delegate(s) attending • Invoices are payable within 30 days • CPD Club Tickets are non-refundable • Pay-as-you-go seminars may only be booked at the member rate by individual RIBA/CIAT members • Refunds will only be provided for pay-as-you-go seminars if cancellation is made at least 10 working days before the event • If you are unable to attend any seminar, or substituting a delegate or venue, please inform your regional office at least 48 hours in advance.

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Ethics in architecture

Designing for flood resilience

Designing for a changing population

How to integrate green infrastructure elements

How to advise your clients on their CDM duties

Going out to tender: skills and strategies

Appreciating the old, incorporating the new

Is off-site the future of construction?

Managing client relationships

Pick and mix: the best of Passivhaus

Club Ticket (10 seminars)

• RIBA/CIAT members £400 + VAT • Non-members £585 + VAT

Pay-as-you-go

• RIBA/CIAT members £65 + VAT• RIBA student members £15 + VAT• Non-members £92 + VAT

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RIBA members in Wales will be offered a separate CPD programme in 2018. For details, please contact the Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW): 0292 022 8987, rsaw@riba.org or visit www.architecture.com/wales

How to book

• Book your Club Ticket online at https://Bit.ly/coreclubbooking • Email your contact details and selected seminars to cpdclub@riba.org

or your RIBA regional office; see contact details overleaf• Telephone the appropriate RIBA regional office; see contact details

overleaf• For pay-as-you-go bookings, go to www.architecture.com/WhatsOn

Once we receive your booking request and payment, we will send you confirmation. We will issue a reminder email seven days before the seminar date.