Firefly® CPD Seminars: Elevating Expertise For Over 70 Consultancies

Construction professionals from leading architects’ practices to fire engineers and major contractors are signing up in increasing numbers to receive a significant new CPD seminar from Stephen Neville, the Specification Sales Manager for FIREFLY® keen to understand the technicalities of compartmentation and other key fire safety considerations. Leveraging a comprehensive portfolio of barrier products and fire hatches employed across commercial, industrial, healthcare, and other building sectors, FIREFLY® offers unmatched expertise to deliver enhanced RIBA-accredited CPD seminar on these crucial topics.

Stephen Neville highlights the overwhelming demand: “We launched our core CPD seminar, ‘The Design & Understanding of Passive Fire Barriers and Compartmentation,’ over six months ago. Since then, interest has steadily surged among architects, building surveyors, and multidisciplinary consultancies. By December this year, we had delivered it to over 70 practices, with over 50 more already booked for 2026. Crucially, beyond explaining the paramount importance of compartmentation in building design, we meticulously cover all relevant aspects of BS 476 and detail diverse pathways to achieving compliance.” 

With Stephen’s extensive travel around the UK, as well as to various regions of Scotland, Northern and the Republic of Ireland, this allows clients discover the fundamental importance of using these systems.  For instance, the seminars explain the way the FIREFLY® systems are certified for varying periods of both Integrity (resisting the spread of smoke and flames for a minimum 30 minutes) and insulation (restricting the transfer of excessive heat for minimum of 15 minutes).  This point is for the UK and does exclude Scotland, due distinct legislative frameworks for passive fire protection (PFP).

Attendees are also informed about the importance of work only being carried out by fully trained and accredited contractors, along with the value of having work certified by FIRAS, IFC or BM TRADA. FIREFLY® provides Approved Installer Training Schemes with operatives receiving cards and certificates of their attendance, please contact FIREFLY® for more information on nationwide coverage in your area.

As a recent recipient of the main CPD seminar, Willmott Dixon Interior’s Becky Adjei, commented: “Our projects cover the full spectrum of workplaces including commercial offices, schools and universities as well as Government facilities, so the FIREFLY® seminar helped expand our knowledge of the subject.” 

The RIBA certified seminar covers a 45-minute presentation plus a further quarter hour for questions, giving a full hour’s CPD time in total.  Meanwhile, FIREFLY® is also offering a more niche/specialised seminar on “Decoding Roof Voids” which is in-depth overview of these areas and the importance of protecting these spaces, plus product and in-depth design presentation entitled “Fire Compartmentation Solutions” which is a technically informative adjunct to the seminar on Passive Fire Barriers and Compartmentation.

Amongst the other subjects covered, Stephen emphasises the need for penetrations in any barrier to be managed with system approved and certified accessories, while jointing must also be undertaken in the tested and certified manner.  He sums up: “Approved Document B explains the need to design the construction of smaller and safer compartment zones in order to help preserve lives. This is achieved with tested systems in accordance with the current British Standards and verified by test certification and specifiers need to fully understand the route to compliance.”    www.tbafirefly.com