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Designing Buildings includes 6 microsites - mini wikis about specialist subjects. Created with our partners, they provide easy access to curated knowledge about particular aspects of the built environment:
Features and news
70+ experts appointed to public sector fire safety framework
The Fire Safety (FS2) Framework from LHC Procurement.
Project and programme management codes of practice
CIOB publications for built environment professionals.
Sustainable development concepts decade by decade.
The regenerative structural engineer
A call for design that will repair the natural world.
Buildings that mimic the restorative aspects found in nature.
CIAT publishes Principal Designer Competency Framework
For those considering applying for registration as a PD.
BSRIA Building Reg's guidance: The second staircase
An overview focusing on aspects which most affect the building services industry.
Design codes and pattern books
Harmonious proportions and golden sections.
Introducing or next Guest Editor Arun Baybars
Practising architect and design panel review member.
Quick summary by size, shape, test, material, use or bonding.
Types of rapidly renewable content
From forestry to agricultural crops and their by-products.
Terraced houses and the public realm
The discernible difference between the public realm of detached housing and of terraced housing.
Looking back at the influence of climate events
From a designer and writer: 'There are limits to growth but no limits to development'.
Terms, histories, theories and practice.
Biophilic design and natural light
Letting in the light and natural elements into spaces.
Around the web
Survey | FET Skills for the Green Economy.
Clarification on Professional Construction Consultants demonstrating competence.
Construction Management, April 22
Just how sustainable is PV?
Sign up for the BSRIA Earth Day digital toolkit.
Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks.
The Role of Land Policy in (post) War Ukraine.
The Good Law Project, February 24
Government climate risk tables published after court hearing.
Construction Management, April 18
Building Safety Regulator urged to clarify Gateway 2 design requirements.
China’s cities are sinking, study says.
Flat House review – a home made from hemp that will blow your mind.
Meet the client: Duncan Blackmore, Arrant Land.
Meet the expert, Carl Vann
Walkable, multi-use development given planning approval.
London feeds itself, expanded 2nd edition.
The Design Review Panel, April 2
Liberating Design from Local Authority Control.
Construction Management, April 12
Grenfell Inquiry report publication delayed again.
CIAT publishes its recommendations for the next Government.
Building materials trade deficit exceeds 14bn.