
- Building Regulations Changes - Amendment to ADB
- Fire Safety – What is the difference between Fire Resistance and Fire Reaction
- The significant difference between testing a products performance compared to testing a systems performance
- Further Building Regulatory Changes – HSE involvement and the importance of 'The Golden Thread'
- Aesthetics and whether you need to compromise on the aesthetic whilst using fibre cement as a material
- What a rainscreen is and its first uses
- Risk of fire and advantages of fibre cement rainscreen
- The production process
- Principles of an open rainscreen and the advantages
- Different subframe options available
- Design ideas

Cembrit products are available on NBS Source which brings together NBS National BIM Library, NBS Plus Product Selector, NBS Source is a single source for product information that will integrate seamlessly into your project workflow, and provide an additional level of enhanced product data, in a consistent, structured format.
Cembrit's range includes fibre-cement slates for pitched roofing, large format 'A' fire rated building boards/ facade panels for rainscreen cladding. On vertical surfaces, building boards for render backing, sheathing, partitions, fire rated applications and general purpose use.
Fibre cement corrugated sheets are generally selected for single skin applications in aggressive environments such as livestock housing, industrial processes or storage of corrosive materials.
Fibre cement slate formats include Westerland dressed edge textured surface, Moorland dressed edge smooth surface, Zeeland textured surface square edge, Jutland smooth surface square edge all for double lap slating.
Fibre cement rainscreen claddings are available in through coloured autoclaved water resistant composition known as Cembonit or Patina. Fibre cement through coloured rainscreen cladding is branded Solid, fibre cement through coloured rainscreen cladding with a transparent coating is branded Transparent and fibre cement rainscreen cladding with a painted surface on a natural grey core is branded Cover.