Coffee Chats – Bitesize Technical Talks for the Construction Industry

Abbie Bradshaw / 27 May 2025

Over the next few months illbruck will be hosting a series of ‘Coffee Chat’ style, short short webinars tackling some of the biggest issues facing the construction industry today.

Our expert technical team will be breaking down and explaining topics around:

  • Building insulation & design
  • Window installation & membrane selection
  • Fire testing & classification
  • Impact of environmental factors on building specifications

Starting on the 19th of June and running until 20th November these twice monthly bite sized sessions are a convenient way to stay up to date with industry developments unpicking some of the areas of confusion and providing you with an opportunity to ask our experts on a range of building and regulatory issues.

Our webinar series will focus on:

  • Correct specification, installation and building protection
  • Why buildings need to breathe
  • Where there has been a lack of clarity in the industry
  • How illbruck can help you navigate some of the trickier specification and installation problems

Who are the Coffee Chats intended for?

Our informal Coffee Chat webinars are intended to bring together construction industry specialists and in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee discuss pressing issues. Typically, the following specialists would benefit from the illbruck Coffee Chats:

  • Architects
  • House builders
  • In-house design teams
  • Installers
  • Main contractors
  • Specifiers
  •  STA members
  • Sub-contractors
  • Timber frame manufacturers
  • Window installers
  • Window system specialists

Top five reasons to sign up to our Coffee Chat series?

  1. Identification of longstanding misconceptions in the industry and best practice to follow.
  2. Where requirements have been underestimated and the real requirements to meet building standards and regulations
  3. Identifying types of products, often seen as similar or even interchangeable, whereas in reality have a specific role to play in the construction of buildings.
  4. Clearing up differences between the features of a product and the regulatory requirements. We how to run through the difference between minimum standards and legal requirements.
  5. An examination of risk in the construction industry, and a quick identification of the different risk factors.

Sign up to our Coffee Chat Newsletter

We’d like to keep you updated on the upcoming webinars in our Coffee Chat series, details of our expert speakers and the key topics that will be discussed. Sign up to our emailer here.