CPD Essentials

Fused bamboo
2024-04-18 16:00 - 17:00 UTC | Online, via Zoom, United Kingdom
Fused Bamboo for Exterior Application

This CPD material focuses on fused bamboo products, including decking, cladding, fencing, panels, and other outdoor applications.
The CPD is divided into three main sections:
1. Why Choose Bamboo?
2. The Production Process of Fused Bamboo.
3. The Advantages and Common Issues of Fused Bamboo Products, along with some project showcases.
This CPD aims to cover:
1. The growth pattern of MOSO bamboo.
2. The manufacturing process of fused bamboo.
3. The features of fused bamboo (including common sizes, issues and maintenance methods).
4. Fused bamboo projects showcase
By the end of this CPD delegates should have:
1. An understanding of why bamboo is a sustainable choice.
2. An understanding of the general production process and principles of fused bamboo.
3. An understanding of the products performance of fused bamboo.
4. Some inspiration for applying bamboo in future projects.

A Flexible Approach to Waterproofing
2024-04-25 16:00 - 17:00
Presented by Regional Technical Manager Mike Williams
The duration of the seminar is approximately 1 hour and covers the following:

Design Requirement
Single Ply Membranes, Reinforced Bitumen Membranes & Liquid Applied Waterproofing
Detailing
Installation methods
Strengths/Weaknesses
Sustainability

Impact of the BSA on the Building Regulations, Building Control and the Duty-Holder Regime
2024-05-02 16:00 - 17:00
Date: Thursday 2 May 4pm
Speaker: John Palmer, OWL Building Control
Time: 16:00 – 17:00

Regional Surveyor / Technical Manager

John has worked in the construction industry for over 10 years. He started his career within a private Architectural practice, before gaining experience in Project Management and Building Surveying.
John is the Technical Manager of OWL Building Control Solutions, providing research & technical support to our surveying and business support staff.
John completes his Technical Manager role at the Head Office, whilst also managing their Salisbury office.
He has a wealth of experience in a range of roles within the construction industry. This gives him an breadth of knowledge and understanding when considering Building Regulations processes and how to apply them to unique projects.
John takes a keen interest in innovative construction techniques, specifically Modern Methods of Construction, which formed the basis of his Masters of Science at the University of Reading.
He is:
A Member of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers
An Associate Member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
An Associated Member of the Institute of Fire Safety Management
A Member of the Associated of Construction Quality Professionals (Fire).

Summer special webinar offer
2024-07-04 08:00 - 2024-09-30 17:00 | Online, via Zoom, United Kingdom
Summer Special
Available until the 30 September 2024.
Order 12 of the £15 webinars for the price of 10 £150 plus VAT saving £30
Choose 12 from the attached List of webinars
Order your summer special below and then email alison@cpdessentials with your choices. I will then email you the links to watch at your leisure.
Most are between 45-60 minutes and all count towards formal CPD

Quantity Surveying CPD Day 2024 - Southampton
2024-11-27 | Hilton Hotel, Southampton, Bracken Place,Chilworth, Southampton, Hampshire, SO16 3RB, United Kingdom
Q essentials CPD day
27 November 0830 – 1630
Doubletree Hilton, Southampton
A full day of CPD aimed at those working as a Quantity Surveyor within private practice, local government or construction. A lively mix of topics will be presented which provisionally includes the following:

New JCT suite of contracts
New Building Control Regime
Construction law update
MEES
Product update
Industry update
AI (tbc)

The cost of the day to include conference proceedings, all refreshments, lunch and a comprehensive delegate pack is £130 plus VAT = £156
CPD – Up to 6 formal hours
Bookings can be made online below or by cheque/BACS or by calling 07429 523183

Webinar programme 2025
2025-04-08 00:00 - 2026-12-12 23:50
After 4 successful years of running online events, CPD essentials is continuing to run a webinar programme from June until the end of the year with 20 live webinars.
The cost of the Webicard which provides access to the hour long webinars (including the recordings) for the season is £144 (£120.00 plus VAT).
Individual attendance or a webinar recordings are £18.00 (£15.00 plus VAT). Each webinar is around 45 minutes, with time for questions at the end. Each webinar will be either on a Wednesday or a Thursday evening at 5pm.
If you sign up part way through the year up you’ll be sent the links to all the previous recordings, including handouts/information from the speaker if provided.
The events for 2025 are as follows:

24 Apr
Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act
Richard Snape

1 May
Building Refurbishment: Systems for Retrofit and Conservation RIBA
Joe, Proctor Group

8 May
Historically accurate glazing with modern build values
Brian Scott, HistoGlass

15 May
Standing Seam CPD
Elen Worthington, Tata Steel

22 May
Internal Floor Drainage – Design & Specification
David Broad, Alumasc

29 May
Impact and Actions for Metal Roof and Wall Cladding Systems
TBC

5 June
Highway Law and Parking Issues
Ian Quayle, Property Law UK

12 June
Safety at Height
Stuart Pierpoint – MSA Safety

19 June
Hidden Operational Risks That Undermine Asset Value: What Surveyors and Property Managers Overlook
Deborah Israel

26 June
Solar PV CPD
Michael Williams, ICB

SUMMER BREAK

11 Sept
The Building Safety Act 2022
Ian Quayle, Property Law UK

18 Sept
Air Leakage & Fire Performance in Façade Systems RIBA
Joe, Proctor Group

25 Sept
TBC
TBC

2 Oct
Passive House and Low Energy Housing Design RIBA
Joe, Proctor Group

9 Oct
Recent and Upcoming changes to fire safety
John Palmer

23 Oct
Building Regulations and their interaction with Listed / Historic Buildings
John Palmer

5 Nov
Renter’s Rights Bill
Richard Snape

13 Nov
Architectural Aluminium: A Complete Guide to Design & Specification
Ivan Colvil, Alumasc

20 Nov
Party Wall Update
Ben Mackie – The Party Wall Collective

27 Nov
Pitched Roof Design Considerations: Energy Moisture & Air Permeability RIBA
Joe, Proctor Group

Each webinar costs £15.00 + £3.00 VAT (£18.00) or you can chose the Webicard option which entitles you to attend all the evening webinars throughout the year for £120 + £24 VAT (£144). This covers you for 20 live webinars up until the end of 2025, with recordings available for those unable to attend the live events.
You can purchase your Webicard below.
Information and bookings on the individual events can be found on the event pages.
The link for the webinar will be sent to you at least 2 days before the live event starts.

WEBINAR - Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act
2025-04-24 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 24 April 2025
Speaker: Richard Snape
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)
The Leasehold and Freehold Reform Act 2024 introduces significant reforms, including banning new long residential leasehold houses (with exceptions), extending lease terms to 990 years, and giving leaseholders more rights to enfranchise and challenge charges. Ground rent reforms and administration charges are capped or abolished in many cases, with judicial reviews delaying some implementations. Commonhold reforms are proposed to make it the default for new flats, and the Act also strengthens protections under the Building Safety Act 2022 and establishes redress schemes for both leaseholders and freeholders.

WEBINAR - Building Refurbishment: Systems for Retrofit and Conservation RIBA
2025-05-01 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 1 May 2025
Speaker: Proctor Group
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Historically accurate glazing with modern build values
2025-05-08 17:00 - 2025-11-27 18:30
Date: 8 May 2025
Speaker: Brian Scott, HistoGlass
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)
This CPD will explore different historic glazing types and which types were used in which era (to which vernacular it belongs). From there, the presentation will demonstrate how historic glazing can be incorporated in modern systems to achieve both the correct historic look and feel as well as modern acoustic and thermal insulation values. By the end of the CPD you should have a greater understanding of:
– How to identify historic glazing (which type it is and which era it belongs to)
– How to specify the correct historic glass type in combination with either thin double glazing or laminated systems
– How to identify which U and dB values are achievable for glazing in historic windows

WEBINAR - Standing Seam CPD
2025-05-15 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 15 May 2025
Speaker: Elen Worthington, Tata Steel
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Internal Floor Drainage – Design & Specification
2025-05-22 17:00 - 2025-06-05 18:30
Date: 22 May 2025
Speaker: David Brown, Alumasc
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Impact and Actions for Metal Roof and Wall Cladding Systems
2025-05-29 17:00 - 2025-06-12 18:30
Date: 29 May 2025
Speaker: Clare Horner, Euroclad
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Highway Law and Car Parking Issues
2025-06-05 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 5 June 2025
Speaker: Ian Quayle
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Safety at Height
2025-06-12 17:00 - 2025-06-26 18:30
Date: 12 June 2025
Speaker: Stuart Pierpoint – MSA Safety
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Hidden Operational Risks That Undermine Asset Value: What Surveyors and Property Managers Overlook
2025-06-19 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 19 June 2025
Speaker: Deborah Israel
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)
Hidden Operational Risks That Undermine Asset Value: What Surveyors and Property Managers Overlook
This technical CPD session highlights the operational risks that often go unnoticed – but can quietly erode asset value and disrupt portfolio performance. From lease clause liabilities and non-compliant EPCs to failing M&E systems and poor service charge recovery, these issues can significantly affect valuation if not addressed early.
Delegates will gain practical insight into identifying high-risk red flags during inspections and reporting, and learn how to present these findings in a way that supports asset and investment strategy.
Learning Outcomes:

Identify hidden risks that directly impact value and tenant retention
Understand how leases, compliance, and asset condition contribute to long-term risk
Translate technical property issues into commercially relevant reporting
Apply a structured risk assessment approach to inspections and client updates

CPD Relevance:
Aligned with the following RICS competencies:

Property Management
Inspection
Valuation
Landlord & Tenant
Sustainability / Health & Safety

WEBINAR - Solar PV CPD
2025-06-26 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 26 June 2025
Speaker: Michael Williams
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - The Building Safety Act 2022
2025-09-11 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 11 September 2025
Speaker: Ian Quayle
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Air Leakage & Fire Performance in Façade Systems
2025-09-18 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 18 September 2025
Speaker: Proctor Group
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Passive House and Low Energy Housing Design
2025-10-02 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 2 October 2025
Speaker: Proctor Group
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)
This webinar gives an overview of the Passive House design principles, the benefits they provide in terms of energy performance, and the means by which these benefits are achieved. It also introduces some common fabric first systems and solutions to simplify the process of optimising low energy design using the passive principles.

WEBINAR - Recent and Upcoming changes to fire safety
2025-10-09 16:30 - 17:30
Date: 9 October 2025
Speaker: John Palmer, OWL
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Building Regulations and their interaction with Listed/Historic Buildings
2025-10-23 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 23 October 2025
Speaker: John Palmer, OWL
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Renter's Rights Bill
2025-11-05 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 5 November 2025
Speaker: Richard Snape
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

Renters’ Rights Bill receives Royal Assent today, securing a fairer future for 11 million private renters in England

Renters’ Rights Bill receives Royal Assent today, securing a fairer future for 11 million private renters in England
Landmark legislation will abolish Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions, ending a practice that has threatened thousands of renters with homelessness
The Act will rebalance landlord-tenant relations across England as part of the government’s Plan for Change

England’s 11 million private renters were granted the most significant increase to their rights in a generation when the government’s Renters’ Rights Bill received Royal Assent today at 7.40pm.
The Renters’ Rights Act delivers on the government’s Plan for Change manifesto commitment to rebalance the relationship between England’s 2.3 million landlords and 11 million tenants, ending a system that has left renters vulnerable to unfair treatment and insecurity.
At the core of the Act is the abolition of Section 21 ‘no fault’ evictions – a practice that has pushed thousands into homelessness. This seismic shift will empower tenants to challenge poor conditions and unreasonable rent increases without fear of retaliatory eviction.
The reforms will give renters the right to end tenancies with two months’ notice, while protecting legitimate landlord interests through strengthened repossession grounds that support continued investment in the sector.
In the coming weeks, ministers will outline how the reforms will be rolled out.

QS CPD Day 2025, Southampton
2025-11-11 08:00 - 17:00
Q essentials CPD day
11 November 0900 – 1630
Doubletree Hilton, Southampton
A full day of CPD aimed at those working as a Quantity Surveyor within private practice, local government or construction. A lively mix of topics will be presented which provisionally includes the following:

Ethics update
Construction case law update
Sustainable roofing
Health and Safety
Horton Heath Development
Carbon Costing

The cost of the day to include conference proceedings, all refreshments, lunch and a comprehensive delegate pack is £140 plus VAT = £168
CPD – Up to 6 formal hours
Bookings can be made online below or by cheque/BACS or by calling 07429 523183

WEBINAR - Architectural Aluminium: A Complete Guide to Design & Specification
2025-11-13 17:00 - 2025-11-27 18:30
Date: 13 November 2025
Speaker: Ivan Colvil, Alumasc
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Party Wall Update 2025
2025-11-20 17:00 - 2025-12-04 18:30
Date: 20 November 2025
Speaker: Ben Mackie – The Party Wall Collective
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

WEBINAR - Pitched Roof Design Considerations: Energy Moisture & Air Permeability RIBA
2025-11-27 17:00 - 18:30
Date: 27 November 2025
Speaker: Proctor Group
Time: 17:00-18:00 (with time for questions at the end)

Christmas cracker webinar offer 2025
2025-12-03 08:00 - 2026-03-27 17:00 | Online, via Zoom, United Kingdom
Christmas Cracker webinar offer
Order 12 webinars for the price of 10 £150 plus VAT saving £30.
Choose 12 from the attached list of webinars 2025
Order your Christmas cracker below and then email alison@cpdessentials with your choices. I will then email you the links to watch at your leisure.
All webinars are a minimum of 40 mins up to an hour or just over
