CPD Overview: Understanding Metal Cladding and Roofing
Gain a clear understanding of how Steel, Aluminium, Zinc, and Copper perform across a wide range of architectural applications—helping you specify with confidence.
This CPD session explores the fundamentals of metal cladding and roofing, from historic origins to modern innovations. Discover how to choose the right material for your project by comparing key characteristics like durability, profiles available, aesthetics, cost, and sustainability.
This presentation will deliver outcomes related to the following Competency/s from the National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021:
Project Initiation and Conceptual Design
PC24 Be able to prepare and analyse project development options in response to a project brief – its objectives, budget, user intent and built purpose, risk and timeframes, including environmental sustainability considerations.
PC28 Be able to draw on knowledge from building sciences and technology, environmental sciences and behavioural and social sciences as part of preliminary design research and when developing the conceptual design to optimise the performance of the project.
Detailed Design and Construction Documentation
PC39 Be able to integrate the material selection, structural and construction systems established in the conceptual design into the detailed design and documentation.
