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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
Home builders call for suspension of Building Safety Levy
HBF with over 100 home builders write to the Chancellor.
Construction contract awards remain buoyant
Infrastructure up but residential struggles.
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.
NBS launches industry guide for specification writing
Available for free and as immediate download.
Peter Barber’s work revives forgotten building types.
Insights of how to attract more young people to construction
Results from CIOB survey of 16-24 year olds and parents.
Focussing on the practical implementation of electrification.
Preston flood scheme completes primary school SuDS
Three primary schools benefit from SuDS schemes.
Sustainable Urban Drainage and Biodiversity
Awards for champions of these interconnected fields now open.
Microcosm of biodiversity in balconies and containers
Minor design adaptations for considerable biodiversity benefit.
CIOB student competitive construction challenge Ireland
Inspiring a new wave of Irish construction professionals.
Challenges of the net zero transition in Scotland
Skills shortage and ageing workforce hampering Scottish transition to net zero.
Private rental sector, living standards and fuel poverty
Report from the NRH in partnership with Impact on Urban Health.
.Cold chain condensing units market update
Tracking the evolution of commercial refrigeration unit markets.
Around the web
Action taken to protect households with poor-quality insulation.
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.
Market Intelligence - Global HVAC and BACS markets webinar.
NRH / Building Centre, 27 March
Retrofit 25: What’s Stopping Us? Exhibition and event opening soon.
New Where it's AT films now available to watch.
Construction Management, 12 March
How is building safety impacting insurance premiums in construction?
Aluminium alert: US jobs at risk from 25% tariff on critical metal.
Celebrating World Humidity Control Day.
Seismic reforms promised in new Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
IHBC Context issue no 182 out now.
Construction Management, 11 March
Increase homebuilding target to 4m over next decade, CLC co-chair tells MPs.
Remembering Kevin Davies: A Dedicated Leader and Friend.
Construction Management, 11 March
Why construction needs a consistent approach to whole-life carbon.
Placemaking and Context’, IHBC CPD Branch Partnership event for the Annual School.
Your insights matter: assessing the impact of Inheritance Tax changes.
Government response to the Grenfell Inquiry: what it means for ATs.