Grand Designs Live 2025
Live Talks and RIBA & BIID Accredited CPD
Join us at Grand Designs Live in ExCeL London on Friday 2 May for CEDIA’s live talk in partnership with CIOB and RIBA, and benefit from our CEDIA CPD presentations on cinema and media room design and lighting design.
Explore the show, speak with our team, and gain value-adding, time-saving insight for your next project, all the while earning valuable CPD points. Access to the inspirational home and garden design event is on us for our registered CPD attendees.* Tickets are subject to availability.
During your visit, be sure to experience the joy of home cinema, with personalised scene setting in Butler Harwell’s cinema room in the Grand House, a unique townhouse built in ExCeL London that “beautifully blends traditional elegance with modern innovation.”
Friday 2 May 2025
Live Talk: Developing the Brief, Concept and Technical Design
1:00 - 2:00pm
Butler Harwell Founding Director, Tom Butler, joins Kunle Barker, Property Expert, Writer and Broadcaster (M&C Saatchi Merlin), for this Live Talk in partnership with CIOB and RIBA. Turning an idea into a well-structured construction plan requires careful thought and expert guidance. In this session, an Architect and Contractor team will walk homeowners through the process—from developing the initial brief and refining technical details to choosing materials and finishes. Learn about your responsibilities, key decisions, and how to define what success looks like for your project.
CEDIA CPD: Designing Home Cinemas and Media Rooms
3:00 - 4:00pm
More homeowners than ever are optimising their living spaces for shared family experiences, whether it’s with dedicated blackout, immersive home cinemas, or multi-purpose media rooms which transition from bright and airy daytime living spaces to atmospheric snugs with cinema quality evening entertainment. Learn the foundations to design luxurious home entertainment rooms that rival the audio-visual quality and immersive experience of commercial cinema. This BIID and RIBA accredited CEDIA CPD clarifies the difference between cinema and media rooms and exemplifies how varying components can be tailored for individual briefs.
CEDIA CPD: Introduction to Integrated Lighting Design
4:00 - 5:00pm
Effective lighting design completely transforms a room's ambience and directly impacts individual wellbeing. This CPD explores the importance of natural and artificial lighting in an interior space. Understand how lighting techniques including colour, intensity, placement and creative layering can enhance a room and improve welfare. Appreciate the difference between meeting industry standards and achieving high-end, luxury lighting design. Learn how, with the help of a technology specialist, bespoke lighting solutions can illuminate different spaces and can be effortlessly and intuitively controlled through professional integration.
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Grand Designs Live 2025
What’s On
Located at London’s ExCeL and Birmingham’s NEC, Grand Designs Live features the latest in ideas, innovation and home project guidance. Visitors can find an array of exhibitors, experts and live talks.
