Comar Architectural Aluminium Systems

This seminar aims to offer an understanding of how user expectation influences door design, links this with hardware selection, entrance configuration and floor finishes to improve client statisfaction: - The usage and user expectation differences between residential, light commercial and main entrance doors - How this influences door design and weather performance - Formal definitions of light medium and heavy duty door applications - Commercial door construction, and the design considerations created by low thresholds - Issues concerning ease of door opening, versus closer action, and weatherproofing the entrance - An overview of entrance framing systems, its influence on aesthetics - Safety legislation, Building Regulations and British Standards

This CPD looks broadly at the design of curtain walling, its properties and how it is used by specifiers. This seminar aims to offer an understanding of the points of H11 in the NBS specification system, and how best to make use of it. - The functions and requirements of curtain walling and how this influences design - The forces acting upon curtain walling and how they are accommodated - Constructing curtain walling systems - Building movements relative to curtain walling - Drainage of curtain walling - Procurement and lead times - Safety legislation, Building Regulations and British Standards