Outline: This course discusses the requirements of the UK Building Regulations in relation to the fire performance of facades and considers ways in which these requirements can be met in the design and construction of curtain walling and rainscreen walls. This course will identify key British, European and CWCT Standards and guides relevant to fire and facades. Target Audience: This course is intended for those with an interest in the fire performance of the building envelope. Leaning objectives: Understand building regulations requirements, Understand reaction to fire, Appreciate the fire performance of built-up walls, Appreciate fire resistant glazed systems, Appreciate the fire performance of curtain walls. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None. Availability 27 May – 23 June 2024 Lecture time: 1 day. Price Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: Built-up walls are a layered form of facade construction typically comprising a structural back wall and a rainscreen or insulated render cladding. This course discusses various aspects of structural performance, loading and movement, and identifies key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to these issues. This course has a significant engineering content. Target Audience: This course is aimed at those with an interest in specifying and assessing the structural performance of built-up walls. Leaning objectives: Identify the main types of built-up walls and some of their applications, Understand some of the main concepts around how loading in a built-up wall is managed, Gain awareness of basic actions and implications of wind loading, Understand the requirements within testing and its application, Understand the basic movement concepts in built-up walls, Identify brackets and fixings by their operational requirements, Understand the approach taken to assess simple structural elements and frames, Gain an overview of different panel types by their material, design and performance. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None, although delegates will find this course easier to understand if they have attended ‘PR2 Built-up walls: Construction and specification’ beforehand. Availability 24 June – 21 July 2024 Lecture time: 1 day. Price Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: This course is intended to provide an overview of issues relating to acoustic performance, and to identify key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to acoustic performance. The course has a significant engineering and physics content. Target Audience: This course is intended for those with an interest in understanding and specifying acoustic performance of the building envelope. Leaning objectives: Understand the fundamentals physics of sound waves and human hearing, Appreciate noise transmission, Appreciate acoustic regulations, Understand acoustic testing, Understand the acoustic performance of glazing. Appreciate envelope performance. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None. Availability: 03 – 30 June 2024 Lecture time: 1 day. Price Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: Built-up walls are a layered form of facade construction typically comprising a structural back wall and a rainscreen or insulated render cladding. The course covers performance requirements, testing, supply chains, design responsibility and installation quality. This course will identify key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to these issues. Target audience This course is intended for those with an interest in understanding the specification and construction of built-up walls. Leaning objectives: Understand the performance requirements of built-up walls, Understand how performance is specified and verified, Appreciate the supply chains and procurement of built-up walls, Appreciate design responsibility and quality. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None. Availability 10 June – 07 July 2024 Lecture time: 1 day. Price Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: This course is intended to provide an introduction to the different kinds of cladding and glazing systems used on modern buildings, including curtain walling and built-up walls (rainscreen and render systems). It will introduce key performance criteria, specification and verification of façade systems, in addition to discussing the supply chain and construction. It will identify key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to those systems. Target Audience: This course is aimed at those who are new to the design and performance of the building envelope, those who require a refresher course, or those wishing to broaden their knowledge on the type of modern cladding and glazing systems that are commonly used. Learning objectives: Understand the fundamental principles of weathertightness, Recognise key modern cladding and glazing systems, Understand key performance criteria and how walls are specified, Appreciate how performance is verified, Appreciate industry structure and the cladding supply chain. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None. Course availability: 02-29 September 2024 Lecture time: 1 day Price: Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: This course is intended to provide an introduction to the manufacture and processing of glass, its safe use, mechanical performance, thermal performance, and issues associated with design, installation and inspection. The course identifies relevant British, European and CWCT standards and guides which relates to the use of glazing in the building envelope. NOTE: The material for this course is based on previous MTCP and CWDC courses. Target Audience: This course is aimed at all those with an interest in the performance, specification and design of glazing in the building envelope. Learning objectives: Understand how different glass types and produced and processed, Understand the performance of different glass types, Understand the requirements for safety glass, Appreciate glass risk assessment, Understand key factors affecting glass quality, Understand the performance of coated glass, Basic understanding of the structural behaviour of monolithic and laminated glass. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None, although C201 Introduction to contemporary cladding and façade systems is recommended. Course availability: 09 September - 06 October 2024 Lecture time: 1 day Price: Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: This course is intended to provide an introduction to some key materials and components used in contemporary building envelopes. This course will identify key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to those elements. NOTE: The material for this course is based on previous MTCP and CWDC courses. Target audience: This course is aimed at those who specify and use the more common materials that are used in the construction of contemporary building envelopes. Learning objectives: Understand the factors affecting the durability of key façade metals, Understand commonly used coatings, Understand key performance criteria of key polymeric materials, Understand different insulation and thermal break materials, Appreciate different commonly used panel and board materials, Appreciate key production and fabrication issues relating to façade materials. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None, although C201 Introduction to contemporary cladding and façade systems is recommended. Course availability: 30 September - 27 October 2024 Lecture time: 1 day Price: Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
Outline: Built-up walls are a layered form of facade construction typically comprising a structural back wall and a rainscreen or insulated render cladding. This course discusses various aspects of thermal performance and condensation risk, and identifies key British, European and CWCT standards and guides relevant to these issues. This course has a significant engineering and physics content. Target Audience: This course is aimed at those with an interest in specifying and assessing thermal performance and condensation risk of built-up walls. This course is focused on the thermal and moisture performance of built-up walls. If you are more interested in the performance of glazed walls, we recommend attending our new course on thermal and condensation performance (C203). Leaning objectives: Understand building regulations requirements, Understand how heat moves through a wall, Appreciate what calculation procedures exist and limitations, Understand the fundamentals of condensation. Assessment: Assessment will be via a series of multiple-choice questions following the course, The assessment is timed and must be passed in order to receive a CPD certificate for the course, If the assessment is failed, one re-take will be permitted. Prerequisites: None, although delegates will find this course easier to understand if they have attended ‘PR2 Built-up walls: Construction and specification’ beforehand. Availability 17 June – 14 July 2024 Lecture time: 1 day. Price Member price Non-Member price £180 + VAT £360 + VAT
2 day course for more information please email training@humansafteymatters.co.uk
I’ll share a case of visual hallucinations, showing how an existential-phenomenological approach helps understand their meaning and purpose. We aim to explore the lived experiences on irregular perceptions of reality with an open mind. Each Saturday includes: a live dialogue between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and an International Existential Therapist; a moment to share your thoughts and feelings with the teachers; and a final integration facilitated by Bárbara Godoy. This series of ten dialogues set out to explore the multifaceted dimentions and complexities associated with Existential Therapies. It attempts to engage with various interpretations of insanity through the lens of patients often painful, confounding, and deeply unsettling life experiences. Hallucination- between Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Prof. Simon du Ploc “The phenomenon of hallucination has been a subject of debate for centuries. It has been suggested that its function was one of revelation or prophesy, and those who hallucinated were often considered to have a ‘sacred’ affliction. In recent times, their function, at least in the West since the Age of Reason, has been often been reduced to primary indicators of schizophrenia and other forms of psychosis. Lumped into the ‘core phenomena’ of schizophrenia, the concern is not so much what they are, or what they mean to the client, or even their content, but their treatment and control. I will present an excerpt from my own clinical practice with a client who presented with distressing visual hallucinations. This piece of work illustrates how approaching such irregular perceptions of reality from an existential-phenomenological perspective can provide a way of understanding their meaning and purpose within a client’s lived experience. I will suggest that such an approach also enables us to take a creative position regarding wider notions of sanity and madness, a position which enables us to navigate a path between, on the one hand, the medical model which typically focusses on reduction and management of hallucinations, and on the other hand, a Laingian view of hallucination as a route to ‘hyper-sanity’. Adopting such a path may enable us to work more confidently with clients when they present with unusual or disturbing perceptions.” Prof. Simon du Ploc. Prof. Simon du Plock is Senior Research Fellow at the Metanoia Institute, London. He was Head of the Faculty of Post-Qualification and Professional Doctorates at the Institute from 2007 to 2020, in which role he directed counselling psychology and psychotherapy research doctorates jointly with Middlesex University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for Medicine, a Foundation Member with Senior Practitioner Status of the BPS Register of Psychologists Specialising in Psychotherapy, and a Member of the BPS Register of Applied Psychology Practice Supervisors. He has been a BPS Chartered Counselling Psychologist and UKCP Registered Psychotherapist since 1994. He has authored nearly one hundred journal papers and book chapters on existential therapy, and he has co-edited Existential Analysis, the Journal of the British Society for Existential Analysis, since 1993. He was an editor of the 2019 Wiley World Handbook of Existential Therapy. He has lectured and trained internationally, and in 2006 he was made an Honorary Member of the East European Association for Existential Therapy in recognition of his contribution to cooperation between West and East Europe in the development of existential psychotherapy. His clinical and research interests include phenomenological research methodology, clinical and research supervision, existential pedagogy, and working with issues of addiction and dependency. Prof. Ernesto Spinelli was Chair of the Society for Existential Analysis between 1993 and 1999 and is a Life Member of the Society. His writings, lectures and seminars focus on the application of existential phenomenology to the arenas of therapy, supervision, psychology, and executive coaching. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society (BPS) as well as an APECS accredited executive coach and coaching supervisor. In 2000, he was the Recipient of BPS Division of Counselling Psychology Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Profession. And in 2019, Ernesto received the BPS Award for Distinguished Contribution to Practice. His most recent book, Practising Existential Therapy: The Relational World 2nd edition (Sage, 2015) has been widely praised as a major contribution to the advancement of existential theory and practice. Living up to the existential dictum that life is absurd, Ernesto is also the author of an on-going series of Private Eye novels. Date and Time: Saturday 15 November from 2 pm to 3 pm – (UK time) Individual Dialogue Fee: £70 Venue: Online Zoom FULL PROGRAMME 2025: 25 January “Knots” with Prof. Ernesto Spinelli and Bárbara Godoy 22 February “Healing” with Dr. Michael Guy Thompson and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 22 March “Difference” with Prof. Tod DuBose and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 12 April “Polarisation” with Prof. Kirk Schneider and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 3 May “Character” with Prof. Robert Romanyshyn and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 21 June “Opening” with Dr. Yaqui Martinez and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 19 July “Meaning” with Dr. Jan Resnick and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 25 October “Invention” with Dr. Betty Cannon and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 15 November “Hallucination” with Prof. Simon du Plock and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli 13 December “Hysteria” with Bárbara Godoy and Prof. Ernesto Spinelli Read the full programme here > Course Organised by: