NYSA Industry Updates -Designing timber buildings for fire
The West Park Hotel, Harrogate, HG1 1BJ
Tuesday 7th July 2026
RIBA CPD Topic – Legal, regulatory, and statutory compliance
Session Overview
Timber is a key modern construction material and its recent revival on the back of increased sustainability awareness can help designers and clients reduce embodied carbon emissions for our built environment interventions. With the current challenges the industry faces with insurers, it is important to learn how to navigate around the design issues and how to detail structures well to improve their performance and reassure insurers and clients.
About the Speaker
Seek Atelier is a London-based design and structural engineering practice led by Shingi Tarirah and her colleague Krisztián Toth. The firm emphasizes collaborative, sustainable design, particularly in timber.
Their practice embodies a dedicated approach to bold, deliberate and rigorous design thinking that provokes a conversation between people, the built environment and the natural world through low-impact, engaging interventions.
About the sponsor
enevo is a multidisciplinary consultancy supporting the UK built environment across Building Safety, Building Compliance and Building Control. They work with architects, developers, contractors, dutyholders and project teams to make complex regulatory, safety and sustainability requirements clearer and easier to manage. From early design and planning through to construction, completion and occupation, their specialists provide practical support across Building Regulations, BRPD and CDM Principal Designer duties, Gateway strategy, energy and sustainability, acoustics, environmental assessments, technical testing and independent Building Control. By engaging early, enevo helps project teams reduce risk, avoid late redesign, protect design intent and deliver safer, compliant and better-performing buildings.
We hope you can join us and look forward to seeing you at the event.
Each ticket comes with a tea/coffee.
Please feel free to stay afterwards for a drink and more conversations in the bar.
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Session Overview
Timber is a key modern construction material and its recent revival on the back of increased sustainability awareness can help designers and clients reduce embodied carbon emissions for our built environment interventions. With the current challenges the industry faces with insurers, it is important to learn how to navigate around the design issues and how to detail structures well to improve their performance and reassure insurers and clients.
About the Speaker
Seek Atelier is a London-based design and structural engineering practice led by Shingi Tarirah and her colleague Krisztián Toth. The firm emphasizes collaborative, sustainable design, particularly in timber.
Their practice embodies a dedicated approach to bold, deliberate and rigorous design thinking that provokes a conversation between people, the built environment and the natural world through low-impact, engaging interventions.
enevo is a multidisciplinary consultancy supporting the UK built environment across Building Safety, Building Compliance and Building Control. They work with architects, developers, contractors, dutyholders and project teams to make complex regulatory, safety and sustainability requirements clearer and easier to manage. From early design and planning through to construction, completion and occupation, their specialists provide practical support across Building Regulations, BRPD and CDM Principal Designer duties, Gateway strategy, energy and sustainability, acoustics, environmental assessments, technical testing and independent Building Control. By engaging early, enevo helps project teams reduce risk, avoid late redesign, protect design intent and deliver safer, compliant and better-performing buildings.
Each ticket comes with a tea/coffee.
Please feel free to stay afterwards for a drink and more conversations in the bar.
