A short, comprehensive online course with UK Centre for Moisture in Buildings’ Dr Peter Rickaby and Dr Valentina Marincioni. The course provides knowledge, skills and good practice to help identify, assess and manage moisture risks for new buildings and retrofit.
Delivered over 4 mornings by Property Care Association (PCA) the course is based around the four principles set out in the ‘Moisture in Buildings: an integrated approach to risk assessment and guidance’ by Neil May and Chris Sanders (BSI, London, 2018) and in the new edition of BS 5250 Control of Condensation in Buildings. These principles, known as ‘the four Cs’, are: Context, Coherence, Caution, Capacity.
The course is aimed at surveying and construction professionals and contains four modules that enable you to:
- Identify moisture-related risks associated with new builds or retrofit projects and know how to mitigate them
- Become familiar with the mechanisms of moisture transfer within buildings and how to better design out or manage them better
- Increase your knowledge of the conditions that give rise to condensation and mould growth, familiar with moisture risk assessment and management techniques and be able to apply them