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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
Celebrating architecture's eloquent champions.
Unusual perspectives on 1960s’ thinking.
AI and the challenges to intellectual property
The legal landscape of adopting AI now and in the future.
Worrying landscape for Welsh construction SMEs revealed.
In recent risk factor analysis report completed by CIOB.
Construction Sport survey highlights risks of dehydration
Supporting construction workers to avoid dangers.
Can your business afford to ignore mental well-being?
£70 - 100 billion annually in UK construction sector.
Mental health in the construction industry
World Mental Health Day 10 October.
Construction awards provide relief in wake of ISG collapse
Spike in major infrastructure awards, housing up but short of targets, are ISG collapse impacts yet to come.
Biodiversity net gain with related updates and terms
Only 0.5% of applications subject to BNG in the context significant proposed changes to planning.
As political power has shifted from blue to red
Has planning now moved from brown to green?
The role of construction in tackling the biodiversity crisis
New CIOB Nature of Building digital series available now.
The Nature Towns and Cities initiative
Grants of up to 1 million for local councils and partners.
The continued ISG fall out October updates
Where to look for answers to frequently asked questions.
Building safety remediation programme for Wales
With 2024 October progress updates.
In major support package for small businesses.
Conservation and transformation
Reading Ruskin’s cultural heritage. Book review.
Around the web
Rugby – England Construction VS Ireland Construction.
Construction Management, 10 Oct
Five considerations for subcontractors worried by ISG’s collapse.
Cardiff University RICHeS funding award: Protecting our built heritage and collections.
Why Research Must Now Prioritise Inhabitants.
Construction Management, 7 Oct
‘What happens if we can’t meet BNG requirements?’
Gov.Uk Natural England, 25 Sept
Industry experts share experiences of BNG on small sites.
Party conferences: flying the flag for electrical engineers.
Barratt and Redrow Seal £2.5 Billion Merger: A New Powerhouse in UK Housing.
Better legislation for the historic environment – lessons from Cardiff Bay.
Construction Management, 7 Oct
‘Let’s deliver real benefit for nature’.
ISG administrator tells subbies no funds to pay debts.
A Practitioner’s Introduction to LCA Databases: EPiC and ICE.
NDA publishes first ever nuclear heritage strategy.
Actuate with BSRIA et al, 3 Oct
Four key policy areas from BESA group limited.
Grenfell tower site October update
Construction Management, 2 Oct
How credit availability affects tender prices.
The path to adopting AI in construction
Local Electrotechnical Training and Careers Alliances launched.