Well done to the Technical team who have launched a new, RIBA-accredited CPD course for architects and engineers called ‘Concrete – Focus on Sustainability’

This CPD tackles the key issues facing specifiers who aim to accomplish their sustainability goals while continuing to specify safely and effectively. The presentation will cover the current conversation, the various initiatives from the industry that aim to tackle climate change, and the technologies available within construction materials that are designed specifically to aid these goals. By the end of the CPD participants should have a greater understanding of:

• Initiatives geared towards sustainability in specification
• Material technologies available to reduced embodied carbon
• Comparisons between available material options based on structural requirement
• Examples of construction projects completed with sustainable materials
• How to specify sustainable materials
• Relevant opportunities for using alternative materials to meet sustainability objectives
• Advantages/disadvantages of differing concrete components
• How to interrogate relevant standards for further detailed guidance

Mat Saunders, National Product Support & CPD Co-Ordinator, commented: “The conversation around sustainability is currently at the forefront of the minds of everyone globally, and as an organisation we have a responsibility to contribute to that discourse in a positive manner.

This is why we felt that educating industry professionals on what cement and concrete technology can do to help specifiers, clients and contractors meet their sustainability targets, while still using concrete to build safe, efficient, beautiful structures that we all live and work in, was paramount. Even at this early stage the course has been wildly popular, and we anticipate a significant uptake over the rest of 2021 and beyond.”