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About us
Designing Buildings is the construction wiki. It attracts more than 8 million unique users a year. That's more than well-known industry websites such as; Building, Building Design, Construction News, The Architects’ Journal, Construction Enquirer and Property Week.
Designing Buildings is a cross-discipline site, supported by CIOB, CIAT, IHBC and ECA. It attracts users from every part of the industry.
The breakdown of our registered users is shown below:
| Designers | 30% |
| Other consultants | 22% |
| Students | 13% |
| Contractors | 7% |
| Others | 28% |
Advertising
You can place adverts across the site and in our newsletter. Adverts can also be placed within specific subject categories, and even within single articles that match the subject areas you want to target.
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Site-wide adverts
Site-wide adverts appear on the home page, on more than 80% of other site pages and in two newsletters.
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| 728 x 90 | 300 x 50 | 300 x 250 | 300 x 50 | 728 x 90 |
| £2,100 / month | £1,200 / month | £1,800 / month | £600 / month | £1,800 / month |
Single category adverts
Single category adverts appear on every page in one or more subject categories.
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| £525 / month | £300 / month | £450 / month | £150 / month | £450 / month |
Single article adverts
Single-article adverts appear within the body of specific articles.
Size: 728 x 90
Rate: £1 cpc (cost per click).
Find out more
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