The Asbestos Awareness for Architects & Designers course is designed for professionals involved in building design, refurbishment, and specification who must consider asbestos risks at the planning and design stage.
This half-day course provides essential asbestos awareness training tailored to architects and designers. It focuses on understanding where asbestos may be present in existing buildings and how design decisions can impact asbestos risk.
The course covers common asbestos-containing materials, health risks, legal responsibilities, and the importance of asbestos surveys before design, refurbishment, or demolition works begin.
This course does not qualify learners to work with or remove asbestos but ensures they are informed and able to make safe, compliant design decisions.
Explains the main asbestos types, their properties, and why they were widely used in construction.
Covers the serious long-term health risks linked to asbestos exposure.
Highlights how design choices can disturb asbestos during refurbishment or demolition works.
Explains key legal responsibilities under the Control of Asbestos Regulations and CDM Regulations.
Covers the role of asbestos surveys and the importance of coordinating findings into design work.
Outlines how risk can be reduced through informed design, planning, and specification.
This course is suitable for professionals involved in the design, planning, or specification of building works where asbestos may be present.
For architects involved in new builds, refurbishments, or alterations to existing buildings.
Suitable for interior, structural, and building designers.
For designers responsible for planning construction or refurbishment works.
Ideal for those with design responsibilities under CDM Regulations.
For managers coordinating design and construction activities.
For those advising on design-related health and safety risks.
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