CPD day for Building Surveyors, Cambridge

🗓️ Date: Wednesday 3 December 2025
⏰ Time: 08:30 – 17:00
📍 Location: Girton Golf Club, Cambridge

Join us in Cambridge for a day of expert insights, engaging discussions, and top-tier speakers covering the latest industry updates and challenges for Building Surveyors

Featured Speakers

🎤 Howard Jenkins – Broken construction, broken society, broken profession
🎤 John Palmer – Critical fire regulation updates, OWL Building Consultancy
🎤 Lyvy Hall (Civity) – Insights from the leading Biodiversity Net Gain company, Civity
🎤 Kevin Stubbs – Historic mortars and renders
🎤 Jon Lever – RICS professional ethics
🎤 Simon Marsh – PII, claim trend updates and risk management, Fraser Miller

Why choose CPD essentials

✅ Local
✅ Cost effective
✅ Expert and informative speakers
✅ Personal and friendly service

💼 Price: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, and a comprehensive delegate pack)
🎯 CPD: 7 hours

Contact Alison with any questions

Speaker bullet points

John Palmer – Recent changes to fire safety guidance
– Standards & testing
– Reflection of Grenfell Tower phase 2 recommentations
– Update to guidance
– Approved docs B 2025, 2026 and 2029
– BS 9991 2024
– Alignment with British Standards

Howard Jenkins – Broken Construction, Broken Society, Broken Profession, Howard Jenkins, The Howard Jenkins Consultancy
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Lyvy Hall – Biodiversity net gain
– Biodiversity in crisis & definitions
– How to achieve net gain
– Biodiversity units – examples
– Biodiversity offsetting, options and brokers
– How to decide
– Dealing with net loss

Kevin Stubbs – Historic mortars and renders
– Historic overview, identification, care and repair
– External failures with wattle, earth, limewash, pargetting and Roman cement
– Internal, plasterwork, stucco, paint effects
– Problems and solutions
– Examples of repair
– Improving thermal insulation

Simon Marsh – PII, claim trend updates and risk management
– PII cover issues, affordability, limitations
– RICS changes
– Causes of claims
– Risk management strategies and financials

Jon Lever – RICS rules of conduct & professional ethics
– Moral expectations
– Social expectations
– Self regulation
– Legal and public accountability
– Principles of human behaviour
– Dilemmas, actions and consequences

Centaur – Liquid waterproofing
– Liquids over sheet waterproofing
– Reasons roofing fails
– Health and safety, R&D, Sustainability
– Inverted roofs and rooflights
– Products and case studies

Event sponsored by Centaur