CPD Essentials

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

Online CPD day for Residential Property Surveyors
2025-11-19 09:00 - 17:00 | Holiday Inn Cambridge, Lakeview, Bridge Rd,, Impington, CB24 9PH
🗓️ Date: Wednesday, 19th November 2025
⏰ Time: 09.00 – 17:00
📍 Location: Online via Zoom
Join us online for a day of expert insights, engaging discussions, and top-tier speakers covering the latest industry updates and challenges for Residential Surveyors.
Featured Speakers
🎤 Larry Russen
🎤 Greg Harrison
🎤 Geoff Hunt
🎤 Julie Milton – Bright LLP
🎤 Larry Russen
🎤 Martin Gibbons
… and more to be announced!
Topics Covered
✅ Current Building Defects
✅ Historic buildings
✅ Fire safety
✅ MEES
✅ Drones
✅ Profession updates and insights
✅ Insurance updates
✅ Using AI for report writing
✅ Legal updates
This training will:
Enhance your technical knowledge and professional practice – Gain insights into current building defects, fire regulations, the use of drones in inspections, and the latest insurance updates to improve diagnostic and decision-making skills.
Stay updated on industry trends and innovations – Learn about key professional updates, advancements in drone technology, and emerging best practices in the built environment sector.
💼 Price: £110 + VAT (includes a comprehensive delegate pack)
🎯 CPD: 7 hours
Contact Alison with any questions
📧alison@cpdessentials.co.uk

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)

CPD day for Building Surveyors, Sunbury, London
2025-11-26 08:30 - 17:00 | Sunbury Golf, Charlton Lane, Shepperton, TW17 8QA, United Kingdom
🗓️ Date: Wednesday 26 November 2025⏰ Time: 08:30 – 17:00📍 Location: Sunbury Golf Club

Join us in Sunbury in a lovely historic building for a day of expert insights, thought provoking 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
🎤 Jay Riding – Topical building defects, TFT
Why choose CPD essentials
✅ Local✅ Cost effective✅ Expert and informative speakers✅ Personal and friendly
✅ Good networking opportunties
💼 Price: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, and a comprehensive delegate pack)🎯 CPD: 7 hours
Contact Alison with any questions
📧alison@cpdessentials.co.uk
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
–
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
Jay Riding – Topical building defects
– MMC – advantages and barriers
– Components
– Cavity barriers and fire stops
– Compartmentation and fire stopping examples
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

CPD day for Building Surveyors, Oxford
2025-11-27 08:30 - 17:00 | Milton Hill House, Milto Hill, Steventon, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX13 6AF
🗓️ Date: Thursday, 27 November 2025⏰ Time: 08:30 – 17:00📍 Location: Milton Hill House, Oxford

Join us in Oxford for a day of expert insights, engaging discussions, and top-tier speakers covering the latest industry updates and challenges for Building Surveyors
Featured Speakers
🎤 John Palmer – Critical Fire Regulation Updates🎤 Jon Lever – RICS ethics🎤 Kevin Stubbs – Bricks and Mortars🎤 Simon Marsh – PII and risk management
… and more to be announced!
Topics Covered
✅ Current Building Defects✅ Professional Ethics from RICS✅ Historic Mortars✅ Insurance updates✅ Fire regulations
… and more to be announced!
After this training, you will:
Enhance your technical knowledge and professional practice – Gain insights into current building defects, fire regulations, biodiversity net gain, historic mortars, and insurance updates to improve diagnostic and decision-making skills.
Strengthen your ethical and professional standards – Understand the latest RICS guidance on professional ethics and build connections with industry professionals to share knowledge and best practices

💼 Price: £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, and a comprehensive delegate pack)🎯 CPD: 7 hours
Contact Alison with any questions
📧alison@cpdessentials.co.uk

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

CPD day for Building Surveyors, Cambridge
2025-12-03 08:30 - 17:00 | Girton Golf Club, Dodford Ln, Girton,, Cambridge, CB3 0QE
🗓️ 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
📧alison@cpdessentials.co.uk
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
–
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

CPD day for Building Surveyors, Winchester
2026-03-05 08:30 - 17:00 | Norton Park, Sutton Scotney, Sutton Scotney, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 3NB, United Kingdom
🗓️ Date: Thursday 5 March 2026⏰ Time: 08:30 – 17:00📍 Location: Norton Park Hotel, Sutton Scotney, Winchester

Join us in Winchester for a day of expert insights, engaging discussions, and top-tier speakers covering the latest industry updates and challenges for Building Surveyors
Featured topics
🎤Listed buildings and building regs
🎤Fire containment
🎤Geospatial intelligence
🎤Dilapidation legal update
🎤Changing demands of TDD
🎤SIP’s
Why choose CPD essentials
✅ Local✅ Cost effective✅ Expert and informative speakers✅ Personal and friendly service
💼 Price: £125 early bird rate until the 15 January. Then £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, and a comprehensive delegate pack)🎯 CPD: 7 hours
Contact Alison with any questions
Book below by 15 January for the early bird rate of £125 + VAT
