Professional Sauna CPD Training

Master the Art of Sauna Design with Finnmark Sauna

Finnmark's Continuous Professional Development (CPD) is a session designed to equip architects, interior designers, and specifiers with the technical knowledge required to confidently design and specify safe, high-performance sauna spaces. Delivered in line with RIBA and CIAT CPD requirements, the session demystifies key sauna design principles, from correct timber selection and vapour sealing to heater sizing and ventilation, helping you avoid costly specification errors and meet relevant standards.

Who Is CPD Training For?

Whether you're specifying a sauna for a private residence, spa facility, or luxury development, this CPD offers valuable technical and practical insight to ensure your design is both functional and safe.

Architects (RIBA, CIAT)
Interior Designers
Specifiers & Wellness Consultants
Design Managers on Residential or Hospitality Projects

By the end of the course, you’ll gain a deeper understanding of not only how to build a sauna to the correct standards, but also how to optimise its layout, ventilation, and usability to deliver a truly authentic sauna experience along with the associated health and wellbeing benefits.

The Session

The session includes a focused look at several key technical elements essential to proper sauna specification. These include calculating the computational volume of a sauna space, an important step that determines the appropriate heater output based on room size, glazing, and insulation levels.

We also cover the correct wall build-up for sauna environments, detailing the layers required to meet safety standards and performance expectations, such as fire-rated boards, sauna-safe insulation, vapour sealing, and appropriate cladding. In addition, the session explores bench layout best practice, including typical dimensions, height ratios, and access steps to ensure ergonomic comfort and effective heat distribution.

These topics form just part of the wider training session, which is designed to give participants a well-rounded understanding of how to specify a sauna to professional standards.

As the UK’s authentic sauna specialists, we are at hand to take you through the main considerations when specifying a sauna. First and foremost, in the UK, sauna installation is an unregulated industry and therefore anyone can put wood on the walls and call it a sauna. We build saunas to the Finnish building regulation specification which is the strictest in the world. We do this out of choice because it makes a more durable, safer and enjoyable experience.

With our continuous professional development lessons, you’ll find out how to specify a sauna, from what kind of timber types and profiles are suitable for use in a sauna, to the importance of a good sauna heater with a large stone capacity onto which water can be poured.

The Outcome

Working with Finnmarks expert design team we will produce a 'Design Document' for your client including 3D replica models of the sauna, lighting models and CAD drawings highlighting key measurements and M&E locations. This pack can then be presented to their client along with any submission of plans and ideas.

Why Choose Finnmark Sauna?

At Finnmark Sauna, we bring unparalleled expertise, precision, and technical depth to every project, and our CPD sessions reflect that same level of rigour.

Over 300+ Bespoke Sauna Projects designed and installed across the UK.
We specialise in true authentic sauna.
Based on the true Finnish research & safety standards.

Our design methodology is shaped by current guidance from Finnish authorities, international standards (including EN 15821), and practical experience gained from auditing and correcting poor installations across the United Kingdom.