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Government could be failing in its human rights duty over combustible cladding, warns watchdog.
Robots can help close the gap between designing and making.
Contractors launch new health and safety apprenticeship.
Full suite of speakers are announced for this year's BSRIA Briefing event.
Book your place for the Architectural Technology Awards 2018.
Italy's crumbling infrastructure under scrutiny after bridge collapse.
Construction Industry Council gives firm support to wide-ranging product bans.
Buildings should be designed with the future climate and extreme weather in mind.
BSRIA have launched the 'major update' of the go-to design framework guide for building services.
£200 million pilot to boost social home ownership is launched in the Midlands.
Greater London Authority selects 29 developers and builders for new Development Panel.
"Architects have a role to play in addressing school violence" says American Institute of Architects.
Government publishes a prospectus inviting proposals for new 'garden communities'.
The Morandi motorway bridge in Genoa collapses during rainstorm while undergoing maintenance works.
Construction employment levels stay flat for two years.
Dubai launches heritage initiative to preserve buildings from the 1960/70s.
New green paper published aiming to rebalance the relationship between landlords and residents and tackle stigma.
RIBA calls for a comprehensive ban on combustible materials.
Disruptors are coming, and facilities management needs to respond accordingly.
China advances plan to build $2.5bn Zimbabwe to Mozambique railway.
Government announces its Rough Sleeping Strategy, with further funding for social housing.
New development outside Kensington Gardens has no affordable housing provision.
ONS reports that construction output grew by 0.9% in the second quarter of the year.
Work to empty the Magnox Swarf Storage Silo (MSSS) takes a significant step forward.
The Home Quality Mark ONE technical manuals for new homes are now available.
BIG's first of two twisting towers in Manhattan tops out.
Friends of the Earth become the fifth litigant to file a suit against Heathrow's third runway.
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