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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
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.
Renovating Union Chain Bridge.
AI tools for planning, design, construction and management
A long, continually expanding list, any more to add?
Robots in the construction industry
From cultural characterisations to construction sites.
Empowering construction with AI integration
New horizons with a human touch.
Key AI related terms to be aware of
With explanations from the UK government.
A Better Hiring Toolkit for construction
Tooling up to hire under best practice standards in the sector.
Recharging Electrical Skills in Wales
Step by step collaborative solutions.
Ireland budget announcement 2025
CIOB responds with positivity, criticism and clarity.
New HES national centre for traditional building retrofit
Announced as HES publishes survey results which reveal strong support for retrofit.
Retrofit of Buildings, a CIOB Technical Publication
Expected to become one of the largest activities in the global construction industry.
Around the web
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.
Specification CPD from RIBA-approved Providers.
Coventry University students' success at national awards.
New wall at site of iconic landmark, for Harry Styles fans.
Archetypes library & best practice guide.
The Challenge of Consequences: Construction Management Research.
Understanding the golden thread and what comes next.
Construction Management, 30 Sept
Planning changes need to go further in quality and retrofit, says CIC.
Free training in digital technologies and BIM.
NPPF changes do not go far enough, says CIC.