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RIBAJ Morning Seminar 2015: 8 Steps to the #PerfectRoof

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Thursday 1st October 2015, 09.00 to 11.30am The Building Centre, Store Street, London WC1E 7BT Join us at this free-to-attend RIBA Journal and SIG Design & Technology morning briefing as we explore the differing techniques in contemporary roof design and installation.

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Read more about the event and speakers here:

http://www.singleply.co.uk/ribaj-roof-design-seminar-8-steps-to-the-perfectroof/

Agenda
8:55 am Welcome and introduction
Ruth Slavid

9:00 am Zinc Shingles on roofing for The Amphibious House
Robert Pattison, director, BACA Architects

9:20 am Specifying hard metals: choosing the right production for the project
Simon Walker, manager, SIG Zinc & Copper, SIG Design & Technology

9:40 am Green roofing at Peppa Pig World
Gary Wilburn, director, HPW Architecture

10:00 am How to avoid leaky roofs
Jim Hooker, technical director, Single Ply Roofing Association (SPRA)

10:20 am Tea and Coffee

10:40 am Hot melt roof at Hiscox’s York Headquarters
Robin Gill, architect, MAKE Architects

11:00 am How to guarantee your roof is a success
Ross Finnie, sales director, SIG Design & Technology

11:20 am Panel session with all the speakers

11:40 am Close
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Our Hosts:

http://www.ribaj.com/

http://www.singleply.co.uk

Zinc, Copper and Stainless Steel Metal Roofing and Cladding

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8:55 am Welcome and introduction
Ruth Slavid
Ruth Slavid is a freelance architectural writer, editor and consultant. Since becoming freelance in October 2008, she has written for a wide range of magazines and organisations. She currently edits Landscape, the journal of the Landscape
Institute, as well as writing regularly about architecture, construction and lighting. She is the author of six books on architecture. Ruth worked for The Architects’ Journal for 15 years.. She has a degree in metallurgy and materials science

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ruth-slavid/5/508/5a5?trk=cws-ppw-member-0-0

9:00 am Zinc Shingles on roofing for The Amphibious House
Robert Pattison, director, BACA Architects
Robert Pattison has worked with Baca Architects since 2002. Robert has extensive knowledge of construction detailing and is a gifted design architect. His passionate about sustainable design having worked on a code level 5 house and is also a qualified ‘Code for Sustainable Homes’ assessor. At Baca, Robert is involved with a large range of projects, which included
managing works on the UK’s first amphibious house, complete in 2015. He played a key part in the design and completion of the award-winning Oak House, commended for its green attributes and contribution to improving standards of home sustainability. Robert also has first hand experience in timber frame pre-fabricated construction, low energy building systems and integrated renewable design.

https://bacablog01.wordpress.com/

http://www.baca.uk.com/index.php/living-on-water/amphibious-house

http://www.bacahomes.co.uk/index.php/build/living-on-water

http://t.co/1URS6tNm8I

9:20 am Specifying hard metals: choosing the right production for the project
Simon Walker, manager, SIG Zinc & Copper, SIG Design & Technology
Simon has worked in Hard metal roofing and cladding for 20 years and has extensive expertise in the specification of zinc in particular but also copper and stainless steel. He’s the force behind our hard metals microsite sigzincandcopper.co.uk and some of our most popular blog posts. Simon recently put together our new CPD ‘Specifying Hard Metals: Choosing the Right
Product for the Project’. As the popularity for hard metal products grows, this CPD equips the specifier with better knowledge of hard metal roofing and cladding systems and helps you choose which material and product will best suit both your creative vision and your budget.
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/simonwalkerzinc

Zinc, Copper and Stainless Steel Metal Roofing and Cladding

https://twitter.com/zincandcopper

http://t.co/TI0Bl4vlPm

http://t.co/iA4jaIcnek

Zinc Shingles, Copper Shingles, Stainless Steel Shingles: What you need to know

9:40 am Green roofing at Peppa Pig World
Gary Wilburn, director, HPW Architecture
Gary is Director of Design and Sustainability at HPW Architecture based in Hampshire. Founded in 1986 HPW are a multi-disciplined Architecture, Interior Design and Branding studio specialising in sustainable and resilient solutions. Working on projects ranging from £100k to £50 million in the Retail, Leisure, Residential and Commercial sectors, Gary and his team aim to minimise impact and energy use in the construction and whole life operation of the buildings they design. His upbringing in the retail, farming and catering business, means that leisure destinations and customer experience are central to Gary’s thinking and design process. Gary has a very active involvement with the construction industry.He regularly speaks at and chairs events and brings his enthusiasm and energy to every presentation.
http://www.hpw.co.uk/about-us/the-team/gary-wilburn

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/gary-wilburn/15/a84/551

http://www.hpw.co.uk/portfolio/leisure/peppa-pig-world

10:00 am How to avoid leaky roofs
Jim Hooker, technical director, Single Ply Roofing Association (SPRA)
An engineer by training, Jim left house-building and maintenance management with a poor impression of flat roofs and in 1990 joined British Flat Roofing Council as its technical director “to find out why…”. He ran the CEN and BSI committees for waterproofing and project managed the highly respected ‘Flat Roofing – Design and Good Practice’ tome, touring the CPD
hosts of the UK to promote the message. He founded Membrane Roofing Consultancy Ltd., which has provided technical and audit services to Single Ply Roofing Association (SPRA) since 2000.

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/jim-hooker/26/b33/a13

Home

http://www.singleply.co.uk/blue-roof-design-why-bad-idea/

http://www.singleply.co.uk/holistic-approach-roof-design/

http://www.spra.co.uk/technology/design-criteria

http://www.singleply.co.uk/mario-bottas-garnet-chapel-at-penkenjoch-how-is-it-waterproofed/

10:20 am Tea and Coffee

10:40 am Hot melt roof at Hiscox’s York Headquarters
Robin Gill, architect, MAKE Architects
Robin, a project architect with Make Architects, has been responsible for projects across a range of sectors. These include multi-residential developments in Fitzrovia and Chelsea, commercial office developments in York and London, and sport and leisure projects for the 2012 London Olympic Games and in Devon. He has also worked on commercial high-rise projects in China and Australia. Prior to joining Make in 2006, Robin worked at Future Systems and Foster + Partners.

Make is an award-winning international architectural practice with a reputation for challenging convention and pursuing design excellence. Since opening its doors in 2004, Make has worked on over 1,000 projects worldwide from four studios across three continents. The practice has completed 44 buildings, achieved 93 planning consents and delivered 7 masterplans.

http://makearchitects.com/

http://makearchitects.com/projects/hiscox-building/

11:00 am How to guarantee your roof is a success
Ross Finnie, sales director, SIG Design & Technology
Ross has 17 years’ experience in roofing specification and leads the sales team at SIG Design and Technology. He recently put together our new CPD Seminar ‘A Structured Approach to Roof Specification and Design’ and introduced the 8 Steps at our #PerfectRoof seminar last year.
As flat roofing options become more complex, Ross advises on how to achieve the right balance of performance, aesthetics and cost for each project. With his extensive experience helping architects get what they want out of roofing, this year he’ll be introducing the topic of guarantees.

https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/ross-finnie/16/54/596?trk=cws-ppw-member-0-0

11:20 am Panel session with all the speakers

11:40 am Close

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