WEBINAR - Pitched Roof Design Considerations: Energy Moisture & Air Permeability RIBA
2025-11-27 17:00 - 18:30 UTC
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
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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

Webinar - A retrofit solution to building sustainably
2026-01-08 08:00 - 17:00
Sustainable design is no longer a catchphrase, it’s an imperative. The need and urgency to update the existing building stock has never been greater and upgrading windows is one of the most challenging aspects of retrofit projects.
In this CPD, we help you to navigate through all the aspects of secondary glazing specification. You’ll learn how to determine what’s right for your or your client’s needs, what design considerations to bear in mind and lots more.We talk about typical applications and case studies and look at how to maximise product performance such as U-values, acoustic insulation and security. We also cover all the important regulatory aspects and design considerations, with particular emphasis on Heritage and Listed Buildings.
Contents:

How secondary glazing can help meet net zero and other sustainability commitments
Thermal insulation and upgrades to Part L (including U-values)
Control of noise with acoustic insulation (including dB ratings)
Window security (including blast, intruder, ballistic and fire)
Applications (including Listed and heritage buildings)
Standards and regulations
Specification process (including the range of products)
Maintenance
Economics

Webicard webinar programme 2026
2026-01-08 08:00 - 2027-01-08 17:00
After 5 successful years of running online events, CPD essentials is continuing to run a webinar programme for 2026 with 30 live webinars.
The cost of the Webicard which provides access to the 45 – 60 min long webinars (including the recordings) for the season is £180.00 plus VAT.
Individual attendance or a webinar recordings are £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 2026 are as follows:

21-Jan
Metal Roof Refurbishment
Sam de Rozarieux HD Sharman
3-4pm

28-Jan
Natural fibre insulation
Gavin Moore, Sisal Wool
1-2pm

04-Feb
A retrofit solution to building sustainably
Selectaglaze
1-2pm

11-Feb
Steel for roofing and wall cladding
Elen Worthington, Tata Steel
5-6pm

26-Feb
Commercial Leases Update
Richard Snape
5-6pm

04-Mar
Nordic Copper
Richard Parrett
1-2pm

11-Mar
TBA

18-Mar
TBA

25-Mar
Valuation and red book p1
Nick French
5-6pm

15-Apr
Boundary issues
Ian Quayle
2-3pm

22-Apr
Window Protection through Secondary Glazing
Selectaglaze
1-2pm

29-Apr
RIBA 2030 climate change challenge, how steel contributes
Elen Worthington, Tata Steel
5-6pm

06-May
Valuation and red book p2
Nick French
5-6pm

14-May
Rent review – lessons from recent case law
Ian Quayle
5-6pm

20-May
Valuation and red book p3
Nick French
5-6pm

27-May
TBA

03-Jun
Landlord and Tenant Act1954: When it Applies.
Richard Snape
5-6pm

10-Jun
High St Rental auctions
Ian Quayle
1-2pm

17-Jun
Valuation and red book p4
Nick French
5-6pm

The Autumn programme will be announced shortly
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 and the recording will follow shortly after.

Webinar - Natural fibre insulation
2026-01-28 16:00 - 17:00
The founder of Sisalwool, was in East Africa training alongside local farmers on how to cope with the effects of climate change. While in Tanzania, he discovered farmers had fields of a plant called Sisal. Pushed out by the dominant plastic industry, farmers had no way of processing or exporting the plant and its fibres.

On further investigation and lots of questions about exporting, uses, plastic free options and the thermal properties it was decided that it would make a great insulation product. Due to its tough nature it was blended with wool to find the perfect solution. The final result is one of the market’s lowest carbon, highest quality sustainable thermal insultation products. The original blend was all virgin fibres, Zero Waste Scotland funded research for Sisalwool to produce the same product using fully recycled material.
Gavin Moore will explain the benefits in details

Webinar - Selectaglaze, a retrofit guide to building sustainability
2026-02-04 13:00 - 14:00
Sustainable design is no longer a catchphrase, it’s an imperative. The need and urgency to update the existing building stock has never been greater and upgrading windows is one of the most challenging aspects of retrofit projects.
In this CPD, we help you to navigate through all the aspects of secondary glazing specification. You’ll learn how to determine what’s right for your or your client’s needs, what design considerations to bear in mind and lots more.We talk about typical applications and case studies and look at how to maximise product performance such as U-values, acoustic insulation and security. We also cover all the important regulatory aspects and design considerations, with particular emphasis on Heritage and Listed Buildings.Our aim is to give you confidence to design discreet, sympathetic treatments that meet the required performance levels and encourage you to involve your secondary glazing provider early on in the design process.
Contents:

How secondary glazing can help meet net zero and other sustainability commitments
Thermal insulation and upgrades to Part L (including U-values)
Control of noise with acoustic insulation (including dB ratings)
Window security (including blast, intruder, ballistic and fire)
Applications (including Listed and heritage buildings)
Standards and regulations
Specification process (including the range of products)
Maintenance
Economics

Speaker – Selectaglaze

Webinar - steel for wall and roof cladding
2026-02-11 17:00 - 18:00
Steel for roof and wall cladding

Steel substrate and properties (Gauge, Galvanising, Different paint system properties and performance)
Structural performance
Fragility, Health and Safety and compliance with CDM Regulations
Aesthetics, Durability & testing and Fire performance
Part L and contribution of systems
Acoustics, Sustainability and Guarantees

Webinar - Nordic Copper
2026-03-04 13:00 - 14:00
Nordic Copper is the product range for architectural applications, e.g. facades and roofs, made by Aurubis. The unrivaled range of factory-applied surface treatments provides copper and brass with various stages of oxidation and patination immediately.
Nordic Copper stands for individual architectural solutions, a long life cycle for buildings and a responsible legacy for future generations.
Copper has been used in building envelopes for many centuries and is characterised by an exceptionally llongevity of several hundred years.
Copper is a beautiful and timeless material with unique properties and performance benefits.
It can be easily folded both mechanically and by hand, on site or in the workshop, and can take on virtually any three-dimensional shape.
Speaker – Richard Parrett – VM Zinc

CPD day for Building Surveyors, Winchester - Early bird rate available until end January
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: £130 early bird rate until the 31 January. Then £150 + VAT (includes refreshments, lunch, and a comprehensive delegate pack)🎯 CPD: 7 hours
Contact Alison with any questions
Book below by 31 January for the early bird rate of £130 + VAT

Webinar - How climate change affects properties
2026-03-11 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker – Tim Kenny
Tim is a residential surveyor and has been a DEA, Home Inspector and Property Manager in the past. Along with authoring two sections of iSurv for RICS he has also a contributor to the RICS Building Surveying and Residential Journals. Both in teaching and in his own business Tim is focused on how surveyors can deliver the highest possible quality of customer service and benefit to clients.
Outside of his day job Tim is also a Yoga teacher and runs regular webinars for LionHeart, a charity that supports RICS members.

Webinar - Valuation and red book, part 1
2026-03-25 17:00 - 18:00
This is part one of 4 webinars on Valuation and Red Book for one of the most respected speaker on the topic
the four topics are:

Speaker – Nick French
Nick is a recognised expert in the area of property valuation and appraisal. Previously, he has worked at various Universities in the UK, Europe and the USA teaching extensively in the areas of valuation, investment and corporate real estate on BSc, MSc and MBA programmes. In 2018, Nick set up Real Estate Valuation Theurgy, a vehicle that allows him to continue writing papers, presenting conference papers and undertaking in-house training for the real estate profession at home and abroad. His research interests concentrate upon the interface of property legislation and regulation and its impact on value and valuation models. In recent years, he has won the RICS Prize for the Best Paper in Valuation and the Appraisal and the Appraisal Journal Prize for the Best Paper in Appraisal at European Real Estate Society Conferences. In 2018, he was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the International Real Estate Society. Nick is the Editor of the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the award winning academic international journal of the real estate industry. He also writes regularly for, the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the Property Chronicle, the European Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and other professional and academic journals. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and has regularly served on the various committees such as the UK Valuation Board and the Corporate Real Estate Strategy Group. He was also a member of the Professional Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).

Webinar - Boundary update 2025
2026-04-15 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker – Ian Quayle
Ian Quayle qualified as a solicitor and worked in private practice for 12 years specialising in property law matters including residential development work, commercial acquisitions and disposals.
Ian has delivered over 1500 property related training courses for city and regional firms, local law societies and local authorities. His training style and delivery is relaxed, but he is able to explain the law and practical issues relating to the training topic in a way that ensures delegates learn, or reinforce learning, and derive meaningful benefit from the training provided.
Ian has provided training to businesses in-house, public courses, and spoken at conferences. He is prolific in his delivery of webinars on conveyancing related issues, and he has delivered live and pre-recorded webinars nationally and internationally for leading legal training providers and continues to do so.
This webinar is suitable for surveyors and estate agents of all levels and experience and will explore the following –

How can you identify a legal boundary
Advising and managing neighbour boundary disputes
Advising on boundary agreements
Advising on determined boundary applications
Lessons from recent case law

Two case studies will be used to explore practical issues

Webinar - Security through secondary glazing
2026-04-22 13:00 - 14:00
Windows are the most vulnerable parts of a building. This is especially true in Listed and Heritage buildings with their original, often fragile, single glazed primary windows.
This seminar provides a comprehensive understanding of how security secondary glazing can be used to upgrade their protection, and what needs to be considered – with particular emphasis on the impact of the Terrorism Protection of Premises Bill (Martyn’s Law).
Contents:

Introduction to secondary glazing for security benefits
The impact of the Terrorism Protection of Premises Bill (Martyn’s Law)
Types of security: intruder resistance, blast mitigation, ballistic attack, fire protection
Test standards and methods of assessing security levels of products
Suitable products for use and their performance capabilities

Webinar - RIBA 2030 climate change challenge, how steel contributes
2026-04-29 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker – Elen Worthington, Tata Steel
RIBA 2030 climate challenge: How steel building envelope solutions contribute
Covers:

Operational energy.
Embodied Carbon.
Potable water use.
Best practice health metrics.
How to meet the challenge.

Webinar - Valuation and Red Book part 2
2026-05-06 17:00 - 18:00
This is part two of 4 webinars on Valuation and Red Book for one of the most respected speaker on the topic
the four topics are:

Speaker – Nick French
Nick is a recognised expert in the area of property valuation and appraisal. Previously, he has worked at various Universities in the UK, Europe and the USA teaching extensively in the areas of valuation, investment and corporate real estate on BSc, MSc and MBA programmes. In 2018, Nick set up Real Estate Valuation Theurgy, a vehicle that allows him to continue writing papers, presenting conference papers and undertaking in-house training for the real estate profession at home and abroad. His research interests concentrate upon the interface of property legislation and regulation and its impact on value and valuation models. In recent years, he has won the RICS Prize for the Best Paper in Valuation and the Appraisal and the Appraisal Journal Prize for the Best Paper in Appraisal at European Real Estate Society Conferences. In 2018, he was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the International Real Estate Society. Nick is the Editor of the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the award winning academic international journal of the real estate industry. He also writes regularly for, the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the Property Chronicle, the European Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and other professional and academic journals. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and has regularly served on the various committees such as the UK Valuation Board and the Corporate Real Estate Strategy Group. He was also a member of the Professional Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).

Webinar - Rent reviews - lessons from recent case law
2026-05-14 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker – Ian Quayle
A review of case law from the past 12 months and the impact on rent reviews

Webinar - Valuation and Red Book, part 3
2026-05-20 08:00 - 17:00
This is part three of 4 webinars on Valuation and Red Book for one of the most respected speaker on the topic
the four topics are:

Speaker – Nick French
Nick is a recognised expert in the area of property valuation and appraisal. Previously, he has worked at various Universities in the UK, Europe and the USA teaching extensively in the areas of valuation, investment and corporate real estate on BSc, MSc and MBA programmes. In 2018, Nick set up Real Estate Valuation Theurgy, a vehicle that allows him to continue writing papers, presenting conference papers and undertaking in-house training for the real estate profession at home and abroad. His research interests concentrate upon the interface of property legislation and regulation and its impact on value and valuation models. In recent years, he has won the RICS Prize for the Best Paper in Valuation and the Appraisal and the Appraisal Journal Prize for the Best Paper in Appraisal at European Real Estate Society Conferences. In 2018, he was awarded a “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the International Real Estate Society. Nick is the Editor of the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the award winning academic international journal of the real estate industry. He also writes regularly for, the Journal of Property Investment & Finance, the Property Chronicle, the European Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Corporate Real Estate and other professional and academic journals. He is a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) and has regularly served on the various committees such as the UK Valuation Board and the Corporate Real Estate Strategy Group. He was also a member of the Professional Board of the International Valuation Standards Council (IVSC).

Webinar - Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 - where it applies
2026-06-03 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker – Richard Snape

Webinar - Valuation and red book p 4
2026-06-17 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker Nick French
Part 4 of this essential series
