Architect CPD
Expert-Led Brickwork and Design Architect CPD Sessions
Our team of brick experts delivers architect CPD sessions designed to inspire, educate, and inform. Whether you’re exploring the creative potential of textured brickwork, learning how to specify brick slip systems, or gaining insight into traditional and modern manufacturing methods, our CPDs are tailored for architects and specifiers working on contemporary facades and design-led architectural projects.
Each session combines technical knowledge with real-world case studies, giving you the tools to specify with confidence and design with creativity. Delivered in person or online, our CPDs are ideal for architect practices seeking engaging learning that supports practical project work.
Alongside our standard CPD sessions, we can also deliver tailored CPD, based on your specific learning requirements. Please contact us to chat through your objectives and we will tailor a programme to suit.
An Introduction to Brick Slips
This CPD provides a comprehensive introduction to extruded brick slips, from how they’re manufactured to how they can be used across contemporary and traditional architecture. Attendees will gain a practical and creative understanding of how brick slips can bring character, texture, and flexibility to facades, covering real-world case studies to illustrate their creative potential, along with answers to commonly asked questions for architects and specifiers.
What you’ll learn:
This session provides a clear overview of brick slip manufacturing, formats, and finishes, along with practical considerations when choosing brick slips systems, and their versatile use in architectural design. You can find out more by downloading our: Introduction to Brick Slips CPD Overview.
Creating Texture Using Brickwork
Using textured brickwork has become a defining feature of contemporary architectural facades, offering an innovative approach to material expression. This CPD explores the creative and technical possibilities of adding depth, rhythm, and shadow to building exteriors through the design of brickwork. The session combines inspirational case studies with practical guidance, encouraging thoughtful designs. This CPD is ideal for architects seeking to push the boundaries of traditional masonry and for those looking to integrate tactile and expressive qualities into their facades without compromising functionality or constructability.
What you’ll learn:
Gain insights into a wide range of techniques including: bond patterns, projecting and recessed brickwork, brick specials, stepped window reveals, and hit-and-miss brickwork. You can find out more by downloading our: Creating Texture Using Brickwork CPD Overview.
How to Specify Hit-and-Miss Brickwork Using Moucharabieh & Claustra
This CPD session explores how to effectively specify hit-and-miss brickwork inspired by traditional Moucharabieh and Claustra designs. These techniques are rooted in Middle Eastern and Mediterranean architecture, offering a powerful way to introduce texture, ventilation, and filtered light into contemporary facades while enhancing privacy and visual interest. This session provides the tools and confidence to specify hit-and-miss brickwork that balances aesthetic ambition with technical rigour, drawing on centuries-old techniques to create beautiful, breathable, and functional facades. Blending cultural insight, design inspiration, and technical guidance, this session supports architects and specifiers in realising brick facades that are both functional and expressive.
What you’ll learn:
Cover key topics such as the historic and cultural context of this brickwork design, modern reinterpretations, design intent and specification guidance. Learn about structural and buildability considerations while exploring real-world examples.
Brick Innovation Workshop
This informal CPD introduces architects and specifiers to some of the newest and most innovative brick products available to the UK market. Designed as a conversational, question-led workshop, the session gives attendees the opportunity to explore materials up close, handle samples and discuss how emerging brick products can be incorporated into contemporary facade design. Topics include lower-carbon materials, recycled products, specialist glazing, long format bricks, special shapes and blended brick slip possibilities.
What you’ll learn:
How innovative brick products, materials and finishes can expand design possibilities, support more sustainable specification and help architects make informed product choices for contemporary facades. You can find out more by downloading our: Brick Innovation Workshop CPD Overview.
UK Brick Factory Tours
Our UK Brick Factory Tours provide architects and specifiers with a rare opportunity to gain insight into the manufacturing process of bricks and brick slips in the UK. This architect CPD session includes guided visits to facilities such as Ibstock and other leading UK-based manufacturers, providing firsthand insight into the processes, technologies, and craftsmanship that go into producing the bricks used in British architecture today. This tour highlights the innovation and quality control behind each product firsthand. Participants will gain a deeper appreciation of how raw materials are sourced and processed, how different manufacturing techniques influence performance and appearance, and how these insights can inform more confident specification choices.
What you’ll learn:
See brick and brick slip manufacturing processes firsthand, from clay preparation to kiln firing. Learn about the clays, tooling, and production methods that shape the texture, colour, and technical performance of bricks that you will use in your designs.