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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
Permitted development rights for agricultural buildings
The changes coming into effect as of May 21, 2024.
Biodiversity and the built environment digital series
The nature of building, with CIOB and CWP.
A call for prevention and sensitive re-use.
Risks to the long-term effectiveness of the BNG scheme
National Audit Office publish review of Biodiversity Net Gain.
The CIAT principal designer register
Providing assurance and verification of the capability and competence of registered ATs.
Building Safety recommendations and Northern Ireland
The NI roadmap to improving safety in high rise residential.
Specifying rendered external wall insulation for fire safety
How to interrogate the evidence provided to the specifier.
The benefits of writing articles for your organisation
How to create a profile for your organisation and publish for free.
No Falls Week. The importance of safe working at height
What to expect and what is on offer to avoid accidents.
Scottish Government action to reach net-zero targets
Retrofit expert group highlight critical actions needed.
A forward thinking, inclusive global community of members.
From engineered product life-spans, to their extension.
Circular economy in the built environment
A brief description from 2021. Where are we now?
CLC publishes domestic retrofit competency framework
Roadmap of Skills for net zero.
Understanding is key to conservation.
Open industry engagement survey seeks responses
Institutions and the importance of engagement.
Around the web
Retrofit Revisit: building performance evaluation workshop.
Free digital building logbooks and retrofit webinar.
Agricultural Landlord and Tenant Code of Practice launched.
CarboniCa: Morgan Sindall’s contractor-centric carbon tool.
The Construction Index, May 18
Watchdog spots flaws in biodiversity net gain enforcement.
RIBA Principal Designer Register offers a third level.
Building Safety Alliance, May 8
Guidance to elevate competence standards in residential occupied sector.
Policy Exchange: Tall buildings is not the housing solution.
Do you provide retrofit advisory services to local authorities?
The urgent international push to decarbonise construction.
Nearly a million German construction workers to strike.
Sectors, Industries and the Doughnut: Gaining Insights to Your Needs.
Legal challenge bid against Ringway demolition.
Time to Question Demolition!
Contractors face mental health quiz to win work.
The Building Centre, until August
RETROFIT 24: The Reuse Agenda for Our Commercial, Cultural & Civic Buildings.
Digital skills’ role in the retrofit revolution.
JCT announces release schedule for Minor Works 2024.