Fire safety
Isabel Allen2024-12-17T09:34:31+00:00Simón Santamaria has produced a learning module on fire safety for School of Specification. He explains why the early and continuous involvement of a fire safety engineer is crucial to achieving sustainability targets without compromising safety.
Earth building
Isabel Allen2024-12-17T09:38:32+00:00Earth Building UK and Ireland has produced a learning module on earth building for School of Specification. CEO Rowland Keable explains why we need a change of mindset to unlock the many benefits it brings.
School of Specification – Specifying healthy materials
Isabel Allen2024-04-16T13:44:32+01:00HLW has produced a learning module on specifying healthy materials for School of Specification. Senior designer Alison Grant explains the dangers of unhealthy materials and the role that architects can play in improving the supply chain.
School of Specification – Steve Webb on stone
Isabel Allen2024-04-16T13:44:24+01:00Steve Webb of Webb Yates Engineers has produced a learning module on stone for School of Specification. Here, he explains how the potato/tomato line provides a clue as to how stone construction might be developed in the UK.
School of Specification – Legal responsibilities and liabilities
AT Editor2023-10-19T15:50:20+01:00Construction lawyers from Beale & Co, Forsters, Mayer Brown, and the Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution at King’s College London have produced a course on legal responsibilities and liabilities for School of Specification. Tamsin Travers from Mayer Brown explains how architects can limit liability and obtain sound advice.
School of Specification – Specification for low embodied carbon
AT Editor2023-10-19T16:04:21+01:00Engineer Dave Rayment from Morph Structures presents a learning module on specification for low embodied carbon for School of Specification. He explains why it’s important that the battle to reduce embodied carbon cuts across the full palette of materials.
School of Specification – Introduction to collaborative construction procurement and contracting (CCPC)
AT Editor2024-03-01T11:41:54+00:00The Centre of Construction Law & Dispute Resolution at King’s College London has produced a learning module on CCPC for School of Specification. Professor David Mosey explains why this is essential knowledge for architects.
School of Specification – Introduction to bamboo
AT Editor2024-04-16T13:44:15+01:00Neil Thomas of Atelier One has produced a learning module for School of Specification to share the lessons learnt from more than a decade spent researching and building with bamboo. Here, he explains why it’s a material the construction industry can’t afford to ignore.
School of Specification – The Building Safety Act
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-10-02T17:13:27+01:00Leading construction lawyers Fenwick Elliott have produced a learning module for School of Specification on the Building Safety Act and its 2023 updates. Lucinda Robinson explains how architects can prepare for the new regime.
Introducing School of Specification
Isolde Brampton-Greene2023-09-12T12:17:05+01:00Isabel Allen highlights the exorbitant cost of education for architects and how AT has developed the ‘School of Specification’ (SOS), an e-learning platform to provide students and practitioners with technical, regulatory and contractual information at every stage of their career.
Essential learning: Collaborative Construction Procurement and Contracting (CCPC)
Peter Songi2023-08-16T12:29:34+01:00Experts from Kings College London's Centre of Construction Law and Dispute Resolution have produced a course on CCPC for School of Specification. Tutor Darya Bahram asks why adversarial models of procurement and contracting persist.