CPD Online - Sustainability: Timber the sustainable resource

This CPD presentation explores the connection between project design, material specifications, and environmental sustainability, focusing on timber's properties as a renewable, carbon-sequestering material. It also covers screening timber products for third-party verification and compliance with green rating tools.

Architecture & Design Team

13 Feb 2025 • 1m read • View Author

This CPD presentation will explain the relationship between project design, materials specifications and environmental sustainability outcomes, with a specific focus on timber and its properties as a renewable material that sequesters carbon emissions. It will also provide information on how to screen timber products for credible third-party verification of suitability and compliance with green rating tools.

By the end of this session, you should understand:

How design response incorporates assessment of the physical location and relevant wider regional, contextual and environmental issues
The evaluation of design options against the values of physical, environmental and cultural contexts
The coordination and integration of appropriate environmental systems, including for thermal comfort, lighting and acoustics
The application of creative imagination and aesthetic judgement in producing a resolved project design in regard to site planning, physical composition and spatial planning as appropriate to the project brief.

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CPD Online - Sustainability: Timber the sustainable resource

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