Material Awareness & CPDs

We have both bespoke designed outdoor skills area and indoor training facility, specially developed for the highways maintenance, streetscape, tiling, commercial flooring and internal finishing markets. Our outside zones mimic closely the external environment for carriageway and reinstatement applications, whilst indoor provides purpose built areas to plan, practice and perfect your skills to benefit from our high performance products.

Our material awareness sessions are not designed to train contractors how to do their job. We understand that the majority of our customers have extensive experience. Our material awareness sessions are designed to offer the opportunity to trial alternative materials and become familiar with products prior to use.

We offer CPD presentations that include three fully RIBA Accredited seminars, detailed below. Our Paving the Way CPD is also accredited by the RIAI. We provide high quality programmes, which are continually reviewed and updated, enabling our customers to stay ahead in today's fast moving environment. With an experienced team of professional speakers who are experts in their field, Instarmac has been offering industry related CPD presentations for over 8 years.

To find out more about our 'Paving the Way' CPD, please click here.

Watch our online CPD.

The available CPD presentations are:

Paving The Way: The benefits of BS 7533. Reducing the Risk of Failure in the Public Realm

Learning aims:

• An introduction to BS 7533
• What rigid and bound constructions are
• What problems can arise when not adhering to BS 7533
• Other materials to be considered e.g. resinous mortars for water features

Watch our online CPD.

Reinstatement of Openings in Highways: Regulations, HA104 and the Reasons for Failure

Learning aims:

• An introduction to HA104 Specification and SROH
• Why ironwork failure occurs and the costs involved
• The benefits of HAPAS approved reinstatement materials
• A reinstatement: step by step
• Other materials to be considered, e.g. anti-skid products

Specifying Tiling to Underfloor Heating Systems

Learning aims:

• To understand the benefits of heated tile and the types of system available
• To be aware of key design and specification considerations when tiling to underfloor heating systems
• To be aware of product choices for tiling to underfloor heating and select appropriate materials
• To confidently specify typical tiling system build-ups for underfloor heating
• The importance of warranties and confidence in complete performance systems