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Designing Buildings Wiki is the construction industry knowledge base, used by 8 million people a year to share articles about products, services, processes and best practice. Our users are construction professionals looking for knowledge to help them in their work.
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The breakdown of our registered users is shown below:
Designers | 30% |
Other consultants | 22% |
Students | 13% |
Contractors | 7% |
Others | 28% |
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Subject area | Category | Percentage of total traffic |
Project activities | Appointments | 7.7 |
BIM | 2.7 | |
Client procedures | 8.3 | |
Contracts / payment | 25.9 | |
Construction management | 24.1 | |
Construction techniques | 13.4 | |
Cost / business planning | 14.1 | |
Design | 24.6 | |
Procurement | 26.6 | |
Products / components | 14.9 | |
Property development | 4.7 | |
Public procedures | 3.9 | |
Roles / services | 6.5 | |
Legislaton and standards | Case law | 1.0 |
Health and safety / CDM | 7.4 | |
Other legislation | 6.7 | |
Planning permission | 4.3 | |
Policy | 2.2 | |
Property law | 2.9 | |
Regulations | 6.7 | |
Standards / measurements | 8.6 | |
Sustainability | 5.0 | |
Taxation | 1.4 | |
Industry context | Conservation | 2.1 |
Education | 0.5 | |
History | 3.3 | |
International | 2.4 | |
Organisations | 1.5 | |
Projects and case studies | 2.9 | |
Publications / reports | 2.0 | |
Research / innovation | 1.7 | |
Theory | 6.2 |
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