Inclusive Design: Designing for Dementia and Ageing

Inclusive design is crucial for addressing the needs of individuals with Dementia, a degenerative disease that impacts their lifestyles and causes both physical and mental limitations. This CPD will give you the tools to design by understanding the context, atmosphere, and sensorial elements that affect their wellbeing, enhancing their quality of life.

Indoor Air Quality IAQ for Healthy Buildings

This course provides architects important knowledge about the benefits of improving indoor air quality to design buildings with their occupants’ wellbeing in mind. This CPD will cover the numerous sources of indoor pollution with the latest international data and research and what solutions are available to plan, design and specifying materials that are ecofriendly and sustainable for greener buildings.
-Wellness Surfaces

Slip Resistance Design Considerations: Understanding slip resistance in practical applications

Our Slip CPD will cover the importance of slip in design, the different test methods and safety flooring performance requirements. You will gain sound knowledge of the National Construction Code regulations and Australian Standards for slip resistance. We also cover some of the common mistakes around where to use safety flooring or smooth surface flooring.
-Tarkett

Infection Prevention & Interior Finishes: Flooring Considerations

In our Infection Control CPD, we look at the threat antimicrobial resistance poses and how this is leading to an increase in healthcare associated infections. We detail high versus low risk areas, allowing you to determine what floor finish should be specified. We also look at antimicrobial test methods, and discuss how the misuse of antibiotics and biocides can lead to Antimicrobial Resistance – a major public health threat.
-Tarkett

Specifying Sustainable Floorcoverings

When selecting flooring, health and sustainability are front of mind. That’s why Tarkett doesn’t just offer beautiful, high-quality, sustainable flooring solutions, but also complete piece of mind. This Sustainability CPD will examine what ‘sustainable’ means in the context of flooring, the importance of maintenance, and how to utilise third party building labels and some key credentials to assist in the specification of sustainable flooring products.
-Tarkett

Floodplain Design, Construction & Impacts on Flood Insurance

Enabling new and retrofit designs for flood mitigation of the built environment to ensure the properties are suitable for insurance cover.
-iReact Consulting

Slip Resistance Classification of Pedestrian Surface Materials

This free CPD explains the relevant testing methods and the slip resistance classification and requirements in accordance with the Australian Standards so you can specify the right flooring in your design.
-Armstrong Flooring

Resilient Flooring Options for the Specifier

This free CPD identifies the different types of resilient flooring and reasons for using this flooring in your design based on NCC requirements, along with key benefits and considerations.
-Armstrong Flooring

Wayfinding Flooring Strategies

This free CPD explains wayfinding foundations including challenges both existing and future, and how flooring contributes to and aids wayfinding design via colour, texture and design.
-Armstrong Flooring

Fire Hazard Properties for Flooring and Wall

This free CPD explains the NCC building classification and identifies fire testing methods for floor and wall materials so you can specify materials to meet fire hazard requirements.
-Armstrong Flooring