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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
Councils and communities highlighted for delivery of common-sense housing
As government follows up with mandatory housing targets.
CIOB photographic competition final images revealed
Art of Building produces stunning images for another year.
HSE prosecutes company for putting workers at risk
Roofing company fined and its director sentenced.
Strategic restructure to transform industry competence
EBSSA becomes part of a new industry competence structure.
Major overhaul of planning committees proposed by government
Planning decisions set to be fast-tracked to tackle the housing crisis.
Industry Competence Steering Group restructure
ICSG transitions to the Industry Competence Committee (ICC) under the Building Safety Regulator (BSR).
Principal Contractor Competency Certification Scheme
CIOB PCCCS competence framework for Principal Contractors.
The CIAT Principal Designer register
Issues explained via a series of FAQs.
Conservation in the age of the fourth (digital) industrial revolution.
Shaping the future of heritage
Embracing the evolution of economic thinking.
Ministers to unleash biggest building boom in half a century
50 major infrastructure projects, 5 billion for housing and 1.5 million homes.
RIBA Principal Designer Practice Note published
With key descriptions, best practice examples and FAQs, with supporting template resources.
Electrical businesses brace for project delays in 2025
BEB survey reveals over half worried about impact of delays.
Accelerating the remediation of buildings with unsafe cladding in England
The government publishes its Remediation Acceleration Plan.
Airtightness in raised access plenum floors
New testing guidance from BSRIA out now.
Picking up the hard hat on site or not
Common factors preventing workers using head protection and how to solve them.
Around the web
Shaping industry culture – workshop opportunity.
Wales Consults on Planning Fees: Closing 16 January 2025.
ECA urges Net Zero Committee for Inquiry on electrification.
What would you do if you suffered a cyber attack?
Construction Management, 9 Dec
Legal developments construction should look out for in 2025.
Building Regulations Explained course.
Construction Management, 5 Dec
Industry-first RAAC playbook published.
£191m revamp funding approved for London Barbican Centre.
Chancellor’s budget fails to inspire confidence in the industry.
Addressing Building Failures in Flat Developments.
Webinar | Applying for CIAT's Principal Designer Register.
When should a Principal Contractor become a Principal Designer in design and build projects?
Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles.
New Fair Payment Code goes live.
Digital Construction Awards 2025 now open for entries.
Soft Landings: 1-day Practical Introduction.
RIBA conservation practice guide.
Construction Management, 2 Dec
First BSR prosecution ‘only a matter of time’, says Hackitt.
Net Zero toolkit from CITB.