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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
CLC and BSR process map for HRB approvals
One of the initial outputs of their weekly BSR meetings.
Building Safety Levy technical consultation response
Details of the planned levy now due in 2026.
Great British Energy install solar on school and NHS sites
200 schools and 200 NHS sites to get solar systems, as first project of the newly formed government initiative.
600 million for 60,000 more skilled construction workers
Announced by Treasury ahead of the Spring Statement.
The restoration of the novelist’s birthplace in Eastwood.
Life Critical Fire Safety External Wall System LCFS EWS
Breaking down what is meant by this now often used term.
PAC report on the Remediation of Dangerous Cladding
Recommendations on workforce, transparency, support, insurance, funding, fraud and mismanagement.
New towns, expanded settlements and housing delivery
Modular inquiry asks if new towns and expanded settlements are an effective means of delivering housing.
Building Engineering Business Survey Q1 2025
Survey shows growth remains flat as skill shortages and volatile pricing persist.
Construction contract awards remain buoyant
Infrastructure up but residential struggles.
Home builders call for suspension of Building Safety Levy
HBF with over 100 home builders write to the Chancellor.
CIOB Apprentice of the Year 2024/2025
CIOB names James Monk a quantity surveyor from Cambridge as the winner.
Warm Homes Plan and existing energy bill support policies
Breaking down what existing policies are and what they do.
Treasury responds to sector submission on Warm Homes
Trade associations call on Government to make good on manifesto pledge for the upgrading of 5 million homes.
A tour through Robotic Installation Systems for Elevators, Innovation Labs, MetaCore and PORT tech.
A dynamic brand built for impact stitched into BSRIA’s building fabric.
BS 9991:2024 and the recently published CLC advisory note
Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice.
Around the web
Construction Management, 25 March
Slow apprenticeship levels may threaten Labour’s growth agenda.
Co-ordinate Built Environment Research for the Public Good.
Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability.
Construction Management, 24 March
Building Safety Levy pushed back to autumn 2026.
The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects.
Measuring Mass Timber: A mass timber whole life carbon and quality of life method.
BSR ICC looking for new member of Building Control Working Group (BCWG).
Building Safety Sceme.org, 12 March
PAS 9980 – A watered-down unsafe, unsuitable and unwanted approach to fire safety.
Market Intelligence - Global HVAC and BACS markets webinar.
Registration open for DCW 2025.
RSH March 2025 fire safety remediation report
Latest update of cladding remediation progress.
Planning and Infrastructure Bill huge opportunity for the built environment, says CIC.
Action taken to protect households with poor-quality insulation installed under ECO4 and GBIS schemes.
Conflict Avoidance Week – 24 to 28 March 2025.
Open consultation: Expanding the Warm Home Discount Scheme, 2025 to 2026.
Building a Safer Future, 23-27 June
Inaugural Building Safety Week at the InstallerSHOW.
2025 School ‘Heritage in Context – Value: Plan: Change’.
Risk protecting templates to support businesses.
New Where it's AT films now available to watch.