Continuing Professional Development

Improve your knowledge and understanding of suspending ceilings with our wide range of learning resources. Whether you’re seeking a RIBA Approved CPD course, some hands-on training with our products, or curious about our manufacturing process, we have a training option for you.

RIBA and RIAI Approved CPDs

Choose one of our RIBA or RIAI Approved training sessions for architects and gain points towards your annual CPD requirements. This training can be delivered as an online seminar, but for the highest impact we recommend an in-person session at your practice. All of our RIBA-accredited courses are delivered by our architectural and design consultants, with certificates awarded upon completion of the course.

Our current CPD offering:

  • Fire: Suspended Ceiling Systems – the basics (RIBA Approved)
  • Health, Wellbeing and Productivity (RIBA Approved)
  • Sound Advice: Limiting noise annoyance in buildings (RIBA and RIAI Approved)

Lunch and Learn

Choose one of our Lunch and Learn sessions to gain a deeper understanding of our products and how they can be used to enhance your projects. These sessions can be delivered in person at your own premises by one of our architectural and design consultants, or as an online seminar.

Current Lunch and Learn presentations available:

  • Introducing Sonify by Zentia – our range of acoustic baffles, canopies and wall absorbers
  • Zentia Product Overview – covering our evolution from Armstrong Ceiling Solutions to Zentia, and a full introduction to our portfolio of ceiling systems
  • Understanding Acoustic Data and Fire Test Results

Book in at our award-winning Installation School

Join the thousands of other built environment professionals who’ve passed through its doors and get hands-on with our products at the Zentia Installation School. You’ll learn more about our ceiling products and their acoustical properties, and try your hand at installing your own suspended ceiling. For installers, distributors, architects and designers.

Factory Tours and Innovation Centre

Ever wondered how our products are made? Book a factory tour and find out! You’ll visit our mineral fibre factory in Team Valley, Gateshead, where you’ll learn more about the manufacturing process behind traditional suspended ceilings. Then you’ll head down the road to our grid factory and learn about our suspended ceiling grids and other products, before finishing in our Innovation Centre for a Q&A and refreshments. Open to architects, designers, installers and distributors, with full PPE and H&S inductions provided at each site.

Book a training package

Get in touch to combine any and all of these training options into a bespoke package. Book a factory tour followed by a RIBA CPD at our Innovation Centre, or a RIBA CPD followed by a Lunch and Learn.

Check out our quick reads

A suspended ceiling is more than an expanse of empty space. Learn more about suspended ceilings and how they can be used to improve your interior designs with our short knowledge articles.

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Sound advice: limiting noise annoyance in buildings

Sound advice: limiting noise annoyance in buildings

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Navigating healthcare zones: designing with coloured ceiling tiles

Healthcare facilities play a crucial role in our lives, offering high-quality care when we are most in need.

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Elevating Education: Why ceilings are key to effective zoning in schools

Elevating Education: Why ceilings are key to effective zoning in schools

In the dynamic landscape of modern education, the concept of zoning has emerged as a pivotal factor in shaping effective and conducive learning environments.

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4 Effective Tips for a Better Sound Environment in Schools

4 Effective Tips for a Better Sound Environment in Schools

Effective learning in schools relies heavily on a conducive sound environment. Students should be able to clearly hear and understand their teachers without any distractions.

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Datasheets, technical documents, and more

Find industry knowledge, technical information and resources to help you find inspiration and identify the right ceiling solutions for your project quickly and easily at our Knowledge & Downloads Hub.

Read our case studies and find inspiration

See how other architects and specifiers have used Zentia ceiling solutions in their projects, and find inspiration for your own.

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