Construction CPDs for architects, contractors and building specialists

Targeted CPDs developed by our expert Technical, Specification and Product Management teams, to support compliance and understanding across key construction topics

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The ROCKWOOL CPD catalogue is designed to explore standards and regulations, best practice and the benefits of stone wool insulation for applications across the built environment.

You can access these free construction CPDs in up to three mediums, to suit your availability and the requirements of your team or practice. The ROCKWOOL team can deliver your CPD live through a face-to-face or online webinar session. Or, specific CPDs are available as part of the new ROCKWOOL on-demand CPD programme, so you can take the CPD online at a time and place of your choosing.

Delivery options are clearly marked below, and no matter which you choose, certificates of attainment will be issued upon completion of the CPD.

ROCKWOOL CPD catalogue

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CPD

CPD: The Performance Gap

Installing insulation correctly is key to ensuring that it performs as expected within the application. This CPD covers all the essentials for closing the thermal performance gap.

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CPD

CPD: Flat roofs - Functional fifth facade

Understand the role of the modern flat roof, and how to identify and mitigate fire risks in this new CPD, ‘Flat roofs: The functional fifth façade’.

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Continued Professional Development

CPD: BS 5422:2023

Updated for 2023, BS 5422 is the standard providing specification guidance for the thermal insulation of pipework, ductwork and equipment. A means of compliance with Building Regulations across the UK and Ireland, it is an essential document for professionals involved with building services and HVAC applications.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: A-Z of Essential Principles: Passive Fire Protection Solutions

This CPD has been developed to provide deeper knowledge of the A-Z of essential principles that are defined within the RISCAuthority Design Guide for the Fire Protection of Buildings. The essential principles are of vital importance and should be considered in detail by building designers, fire engineers, consultants, occupiers or building owners.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Fire Stopping – Understanding your Liability

If you are involved with the provision of fire protection at any level, then you share liability for its usefulness and operation in the event of a fire. This CPD will provide insight into how you can fulfil your legal responsibilities through improved knowledge and adopting best practices.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Retrofitting Rainscreen Insulation and Cladding

This CPD provides an understanding of retrofitting existing buildings by taking a ‘fabric first’ approach to improve energy efficiency. For many buildings a ventilated rainscreen system is an ideal measure, and when the right materials are chosen, such systems can confer additional fire, acoustic and aesthetic benefits.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Passive Fire Protection for Structural Steel

This CPD focuses on providing an understanding of the key considerations for insulating structural steel members, and how choosing the right insulation solutions can extend fire protection periods and simplify building regulation compliance.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: The Fifth Facade

ROCKWOOL has launched a new CPD focusing on the importance of the roof as the 'fifth facade' in relation to fire. This CPD will take a look at relevant regulations and standards and show how these can be met using the different solutions available.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: A Guide to HVAC Standards & Applications

Our CPD 'A guide to HVAC standards and applications' focuses on providing an understanding of the standards and guidance relating to the HVAC industry in addition to compliant insulation solutions that provide the comfort, health, and safety to the buildings in which we work, rest and play.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Creating Resilient Timber Frame Buildings

This CPD will look at the guidance issued in detail, and review testing carried out by ROCKWOOL that enables mitigation of fire risk during construction, and allows buildings to be constructed closer together on site. Register your interest today.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: EN Tested Fire Duct Systems

Our HVAC CPD provides information and guidance on the latest BS EN test standards and harmonised product standards for fire ducts systems.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: A-Rated Products

Learn about product combustibility and Euroclass ratings, how these relate to Approved Document B and Routes to compliance on High Rise and High Risk Buildings.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Building Envelope

This sessions looks at the use of non-combustible materials beyond the façade, highlighting key areas where non-combustible insulation can be easily incorporated.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Compartmentation

Explaining the key differences between reaction to fire and fire resistance, the session aims to provide a basic understanding of compartmentation and firestopping within a building.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Fire Safety and Tall Building Facades

This CPD focuses on providing an understanding of these changes, and offers guidance through the range of ROCKWOOL insulation and fire stopping solutions suitable for rainscreen and masonry cavity wall constructions.

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Continuing Professional Development

CPD: Acoustic standards in schools

This CPD addresses the noise and poor acoustic issues in schools effecting the learning environment

The CPD was very informative and delivered extremely well in general. As a company we’re involved in reclads and install roofs, so the new regs discussed were particularly helpful.

Mike Dickinson

Cubic Facades Ltd

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