Façade cleaning and restoration CPD training. project tours, practical and live demonstrations

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Designed for surveyors, architects, planners and conservation officers, our training reviews best practice and practical solutions to sensitive restore building facades. Build greater depth and understanding of façade restoration within your organisation today, call  .

Façade cleaning is inherently risky; different methods, processes and strategies are used to clean, over-clean and bring buildings back to life. Really there is only one chance to effectively and sensitively restore a building, irrespective of its modern or historic status.

Learn more about our people on About Us, Click here for Case Studies or here for Testimonials.

We provide a range of onsite, practical and façade methodology training to help property specialists with a range of façade cleaning and performance related issues. We review methods and case studies related to stone, brick, render, architectural aluminium and stainless steel, looking at both successful and failed methods of restoration and the associated risks and issues with bad practice.

Benefits include:

  • Onsite delivery, books and handouts all included, a wide variety of materials for assessment.
  • Practical testing and demonstrations with use of specialist testing unit.
  • Detailed case study reviews, discussion of solutions, risks, limitations and future proofing.

Practical, onsite, live demonstration and classroom accredited CPD training

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Façade Cleaning Training

Day 1

Part 1: Introduction to business

  • Who we are
  • What we do
  • The journey

Part 1: Introduction to business

  • Definitions
  • Building facades
  • Building skins
  • Façade maintenance
  • Re-setting the context

Q & A

Break

Part 3: Building a value proposition for the customer

  • Listening to what the customer wants to achieve
  • Identifying problems
  • Building strong solutions that support the best practice, the customer and the building
  • Transparency is key
  • Manging expectations and risks

Case study reviews

Q & A

Part 4: Geological overview of UK

  • Stone
  • Stone types
  • Sedimentary rocks
  • Limestone & sandstone
  • Different type of sandstone
  • Cleaning sandstone overview
  • Cleaning limestone overview
  • Review of stone

Project video reviews

Review of stones

Q & A

Lunch

Part 5: Background to façade cleaning

Practical: induction to steam

  • Setting the scene for cleaning building facades
  • Industry & transportation change
  • The purpose for cleaning stone
  • Origins of current cleaning guides
  • English heritage conservation principles
  • PPG15 ‘Planning and the Historic Environment
  • Overview of BS Code of Practice No 8221 on Cleaning and Surface Repair
  • BRE digests 448 & 449, best practice for cleaning building façades
  • Listed building consent and planning
  • Why clean building façades
  • Considerations before choosing a cleaning method
  • Inspection & identification of the substrate
  • Understanding façade soiling and deposits

Case study reviews

Q & A

Break

Part 6: Facade cleaning methods

  • Building façade cleaning method overview
  • Identifying façade cleaning objectives
  • Fundamental criteria for façade cleaning techniques
  • Assessing the need to clean
  • Identifying façade cleaning methods
  • The need to clean
  • Cleaning method overview
  • Over cleaning
  • 3 main façade cleaning methods
    1. – Water based cleaning
    2. – Mechanical cleaning
    3. – Chemical cleaning

Review of cleaning equipment

Practical and effective use of steam

Q & A

Day 2

Part 7: Steam & Super-heated water

Practical equipment inspection & set-up

  • Steam cleaning as a method
  • Operating pressures
  • Nozzles
  • Low pressure cleaning
  • 5 simple steam cleaning rules
  • Using the lance
  • A single phased approach
  • Example methodology

Q & A

  • An overview of historical coatings and treatments
  • Historical use of and general purpose of coatings and consolidates
  • Types, properties and characteristics of surface coatings
  • Coating system and paint removal solutions
  • Pro’s & cons of paint removal

Q & A

Break

Part 8: Test Trails

  • Why undertake a cleaning test trials?
  • Façade cleaning test trialing
  • Assessment of test trials

Case study review

Q & A

Part 9: Practical Session

  • Steam cleaning building materials
  • Inspection and impact of high-pressure cleaning
  • Inspection and impact of incorrect chemical use

Q & A

Case study review

Take Aways

  • Samples specifications
  • How to survey building facades for cleaning
  • Survey templates

* To attend day 2, you must have attended day 1 which is designed to build the foundation and context for building and masonry cleaning.

Façade visualisation and lifecycle weathering demonstrations

Visualising façade decay, deterioration rates, maintenance budgets and future investment requirements and the impact that a weathered building façade has on a brand is difficult unless a clear understanding of façade weathering cycles is in place.Read our testimonials to discover our previous success stories or request a book of your choice by clicking here.

Through our CPD training we provide a digital demonstration of façade decay cycles with predicted lifecycle costs and maintenance programmes. Our CPD training is aimed at providing more of a lifecycle solution to façade care, cleaning and maintenance to help future proofs its performance.

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Testimonials

Building Transformation’s unquestionable honesty and enthusiasm for ensuring the client receives the correct whole-life solution (rather than a quick fix) resulted in us being able to ensure the building was not only returned to its former glory, but will stay that way for years to come. I would recommend them to anyone.

Kenny Gash - Carillion Amey

The work provided by Building Transformation was excellent. Their product and building exteriors knowledge is detailed, comprehensive and practically applied to the client’s needs. They offer a professional, detailed, high-quality and customer- focused service which meets the short, medium and long-term needs of the client, and provides practical, cost-realistic advice.

Kerry Quinn - Echo Arena

Customer service is paramount to Building Transformation and they invested vast amounts of time in providing me with a programme to facilitate what was a very complex and time-specific programme of work for the site. The quality and level of support provided by Building Transformation is priceless to any client/contractor.

Marc Blow MCIOB MBIFM - Carillion Amey

The approach and advice on setting up the works at the Wolverhampton Civic Centre were first-class. Building Transformation’s attention to detail was excellent and the RAMS were followed meticulously to every detail. We were delighted with the works and service, and would not hesitate to use them again, nor hesitate to recommend them to any organisation.

Kevin Egginton - Wolverhampton Council

A 200,000 sq. ft., four-storey leisure venue in the heart of Nottingham city centre surrounded by major traffic routes needed work to be done overnight to deal with the traffic issues, while the site remained open throughout. The project took around three weeks to complete and went exceptionally well; the Building Transformation staff were flexible and able to work round dynamic operational issues. The clean was of a high standard and has made a significant different to the image of the building. A very difficult job done well.

Suzanne Green - Land Securities

May & Co have worked with Building Transformation on a number of projects which have included external building cleaning and refurbishment. They provided a great service, supported by the high level of documentation from the initial quotation to books and industry-related guidance, all relevant to our project.

Anton Theobald - May & Co

I am very satisfied in the manner the job was conducted. Also the level of cleaning provided and attention to detail is much appreciated.

Waqas Bin Tahir - Ibis Southampton

I am using Building Transformation’s work to help justify façade restoration works around our business.  They have produced excellent presentations on what can be achieved and is a brilliant piece of informed marketing that is helping slowly win people over in our business to take façade cleaning and restoration more seriously.

 Needless to say Building Transformation is a name that is now becoming known and respected.

Simon Attwood - Broadgate Estates Ltd.

Building Transformation gave great communication throughout our projects.
It will be my pleasure to recommend Building Transformation.

Sarah Cameron - My Hotels Group

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Whether it’s a technical façade condition inspection, specialist advice, façade cleaning test trials and specification development, the delivery of a building cleaning project within a challenging access environment or a full building refurbishment project with ongoing going façade management strategies to maximise your ROI, we can help.

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Before and After Cleaning

A simple photographic reference guide to help you visualise your building material and the solutions required to restore it with care and sensitivity. These case studies have been selected to help you identify your building material, soiling issues and the potential solutions available to you. Using our ‘before and after’ images, you can visualise your own building following similar treatment.

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21st Century Façades: Breathing Life into Urban Landscapes

The urban environment has changed enormously since the majority of building maintenance concerns were focused on more traditional masonry structures, materials, pollution levels, weather patterns – even the height of most buildings are completely different to a hundred years ago. This book illustrates how Building Transformation’s methods breathe new life, energy and vitality into building skins and cities.

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