Learning & understanding adds confidence to interrogate, challenge, innovate.
The upcoming changes to the legislation for delivering low carbon homes, safer buildings and improve the quality of new homes require deep cultural changes and in cases, a review of the ‘traditionally’ perceived acceptable delivery methods.
Our wide industry experience and expertise together with our passion for quality in construction, puts us in a unique place to deliver courses we believe are needed to strengthen the support the construction teams need.
Our courses respond to the call for improving the quality of new build homes and the upcoming changes to the building regulations paving the path for highly Energy Efficient Homes.
They are designed to support and improve skills in areas which are vital for the delivery of higher quality and more energy efficient homes.
The process of a building assembly whether an OSM or traditionally built on site, the sequence of works, the health and safety considerations, the access constraints and trades’ responsibilities, is fundamental knowledge for delivering realistic and buildable designs.
Knowledge adds confidence. Providing support and advice with confidence, is key to improving the build quality.
Overview
A course designed to provide an insight to building works sequencing, site constraints, access to information required by different trades at different stages of the project. The course will analyse the process of thinking and deciding what information is required to deliver a clear and concise drawing pack.
You will learn about
- Information for procurement.
- Information for construction.
- Information for Building Control Approval.
- Helping lower skilled operatives read drawings and breaking language barriers.
- Advantages of 3D modelling in communicating design information in alternative formats.
Understanding the above, offers better appreciation of how information should be presented on drawings and provides the knowledge to interrogate construction detailing.
Suitability
The short one-day version of this course is suitable for managers and designers who have site work experience but need to understand the UK house building industry subcontract working environment and how barriers such as low skills and language can be managed.
The full 3 day course is suitable for inexperienced designers and technical staff who do not have previous site experience and clarity on the sequencing of works on site.
The Zero Carbon Hub report on the Performance Gap revealed that the actual energy performance of the vast majority of the new built homes fail to meet the designed energy performance, often by large margins.
The upcoming regulations on energy and fuel conservation include requirements for evidence to verify the as-built performance of new built homes.
Understanding the reasons for the Gap between the design and as-built energy performance of new homes, is key to delivering low carbon homes.
Overview
“Closing the Performance Gap” is the course that examines the journey from the design inception to the completion of the building and identifies the risks of departure from the design intent at each stage of the project and the impact to the energy performance of the new home.
The understanding of these risks strengthens the ability to mitigate them. Designers, managers and operatives all have a crucial role to play in delivering low carbon homes.
You will learn about
- How decision changes in all stages of a project impact on the energy performance of a building.
- What the considerations should be at Design and Tender stages.
- How small changes on site can make a big difference in the performance.
- Factors outside the design & build processes contributing to the Performance Gap.
- What are the critical elements of a structure we must specify, design and build correctly to close the Performance Gap.
- What should you be inspecting on site to verify the design intent.
Suitability
Suitable for designers, technical, commercial and site managers, building inspectors and site supervisors.
Is your business doing enough to protect lives?
Everyone in the industry has quite correctly put fire risk at the top of their business agenda. Are you confident your procedures and the way they are implemented provide the so called “golden thread”, minimising mistakes and reducing the risk to life and business?
Overview
The objective of the course is to raise awareness of the developer’s and client’s responsibilities in managing information relating to the fire protection of the building, under current regulations. To interrogate whether the policies and procedures for appointing competent designers and installers already in place, are sufficient to protect your business.
You will learn about
- The extent of the designer’s responsibilities and how this should be confirmed.
- Ensuring the designer’s responsibilities are not diluted in the course of the project.
- Responsibilities at tender stage: Installer competency and QA process.
- Construction stage project brief, inspections protocols, record keeping.
- Responsibilities at handover stage.
- After sales / customer care support awareness and training for customer facing managers and technicians.
- The upcoming “Building Safety Bill”. What is changing and how to prepare.
Suitability
Suitable for senior managers / “process decision makers”, in the private and social housing sectors.
Designing the inspection to suit the building.
Recognising the need to improve the quality of new homes but also reduce remediation costs, more and more businesses introduce Quality Inspection processes and Benchmarking. Understanding how to risk assess and benchmark a project, adds value to this process.
The attendees should be familiar with industry quality standards and building regulations
Overview
This course will help you plan your inspections so you can maximise the outcome. Understanding the inspection criteria will enable you to risk assess and prioritise the areas you must inspect.
The findings are only part of the inspection. Providing pragmatic solutions and identifying the cause of the problem to enable preventative measures are integral to the inspection process.
You will learn about
- Understanding the desired outcomes.
- Design Criteria.
- Risk assessing elements of construction depending on the use, size, method of construction and design complexity.
- Interviewing project teams.
- Desktop study of design information.
- Tender information – subcontractor brief.
Suitability
Suitable for QA managers, building control, warranty inspectors, project managers.
