NEW BUILD SEMINAR

BLF Designers' and Specifiers' Seminar

Friday 23 April 2010

Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, by Edinburgh

This one-day seminar demystifies the uses of lime and lime-based products for conservation and new build and provides access to clear information to enable knowledgeable use and specification of these materials. The seminar is aimed at clients, developers and professionals (architects, engineers, surveyors) and follows the same format as the successful events held in Greenwich in September 2007 and Dublin in March 2008.

Speakers include:

• James Simpson, Simpson & Brown Architects;
• Pete Walker, BRE Centre for Innovative Construction, University of Bath;
• Roz Artis-Young, Scottish Lime Centre Trust;
• Steve Foster, Singleton Birch;
• Ian Pritchett, Lime Technology Ltd;
• Paul Livesey, techincal consultant to Castle Cement;
• Michael Beare, AKS Ward Lister Beare;
• Tony Barton and Elinor Gray-Williams, Donald Insall Associates;
• Jeremy Blake, Purcell Miller Tritton
  

Topics covered include:

• an introduction to lime, the properties of lime mortared masonry;
• specifications: sands, pozzolans, mortars, renders;
• testing of lime mortars;
• Use of lime mortars and renders in severe weather conditions;
• working examples of theory into practice;
• design guidance and where to find it;
• case studies.
  

The programme lists all the speakers and topics.

Cost (no VAT element): £200

This unmissable event will be held in the School of the Built Environment, Edwin Chadwick Building, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton, near Edinburgh on Friday 23 April 2010. Click here for a booking form.