HARDWARE&SECURITY
SPONSORED BY KEYPRINT
HOPPE JOINS CPD TRAINING
Leading hardware
manufacturer HOPPE UK
now offers architects and
other specifiers a RIBAapproved Continuous
Professional Development
(CPD) training on Lever
Handles and Liability.
The training, which can
be carried out as a seminar
at any location, covers the
importance of specifying
the correct lever handles
to comply with legislation,
regulatory guidelines, building
regs and fire regulations. It
also advises specifiers of door
hardware how best to limit
their liability.
The training can be carried
out in seminar format by
HOPPE’s team of specialist
architectural ironmongery
representatives on the
architectural practice’s own
premises. It has been assessed
by RIBA as meeting the high
quality standards required
to conform to strict CPD
guidelines and can be counted
by architects, architectural
ironmongers and other
specifiers towards their annual
CPD requirements.
The presentation covers
some of the things that can
go wrong with lever handles
– unsuitable for access,
incorrect performance grade,
inappropriate standard for fire
doors, amongst others – and
the myriad the legislation
covering handles. And,
crucially, it focuses on what
specifiers can do to ensure
they specify the right handle
every time and reduce their
exposure to liability should a
problem occur.
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