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29/05/2026 - DB Intelligence, Overheating guidance, Social media and careers, Skills England apprenticeship units, and UK Standard Skills Classification. Web: London Festival of Architecture, IUCN report circularity, built environment professions, trades and occupations call, new homes wish list, and Met investigations into Grenfell Tower fire on track.
22/05/2026 - King’s Speech, Building Control Panel final report, Spelling it out, BNG reform, Building Safety recap April, Web: IHBC Council Don’t Waste Buildings blog feature, Living Wage Foundation and apprentices, new core product safety framework, call for Circular Economy Growth Plan.UK Academy of Mould Experts.
15/05/2026 - Cyber Security in the built environment, the sad story of Derby Hippodrome, Managing competence, Noise Action Week, Scottish and Welsh Parliaments and construction. Web: ECA retentions ban proposal, confidence gap in fire safety, BC approvals applications received, Regulatory Reform Conference Wales, and Construct Zero refreshed.
08/05/2026 - Conserving the Sainsbury Wing, Women's Contributions to the Built Environment, Circular Economy Strategy, Apprenticeships pay back, the future workforce at UKCW. Web: New President of ECA., Renters' Right Act, Cost of building a new home, steel tariffs and quotas, and Survey – National Standards User Needs.
01/05/2026 - Construction, carbon and soil, Hampstead Garden Suburb, Safe energy transition, 2026 Fire door compliance, and Frank Duffy. Web: CIOB new trustees, new fire safety RPEEPs, new CIC report on apprenticeship assessment reform, consultation on changes to Approved Document B and how to make cities that keep getting better.
24/04/2026 - Sourcing Scottish slate, New housing standards, Where it's AT, Delabole slate, and Edmundson Apprentice of the Year. Web: Commitment to cheaper electricity, CIAT becomes CCPI Organisation Associate, Future Homes Hub Technical Conferences, misuse of NDAs, and concerns over sprinkler policy expressed.
17/04/2026 - Solar in the historic environment, The National Housing Bank, Change of use legislation, New level 6 MSc course, and workforce health and operations. Web: New electrical standard amendment, business electrical bill cuts,CDM survey, stained glass repository, and new CIAT CPD catalogue addition for Future Homes Standard.
10/04/2026 - Insolvencies mount, despite growth, carbon case for indigenous slate, The Built List, Responsibilities of domestic clients, Vitrified clay pipe in infrastructure. Web: Stress Awareness Month, ECA Business Day, Marketing strategies, CIC concerns over new school sprinkler policy, and Craftsperson of the Year Award.
31/03/2026 - Manifesto house, seven new towns, sustainable plumbing and heating, Sustainability Pathfinder Handbook, and CBAM. Web: Student to CIOB Fellow, Grenfell community update, ECA Awards, Finnish timber system and Archetech issue.
27/03/2026 - Future homes standards and plug-in solar, later living housing solution, time to pay up, Gus Astley student award winners, preparing HRB safety case reports. Web: Upgrading the UK’s housing stock, MCIAT professional assessment exemplar, support for housebuilding in London, CROSS-UK reporting, JCT 2016 Editions withdrawn.
24/03/2026 - Male workers and prostate cancer, Welsh workforce assessment, structuring product data, the changed R&D tax landscape, and Sea City. Web: Glasgow Central station partly reopens, HRB PD project case studies, Hong Kong blaze inquiry, CLC Biennial Report Launch Webinar, Retrofit Testing for Warm Homes free white paper.
20/03/2026 - Copyright and AI, Architectural education and AI, document control, CIOB student challenge, UKCW UK. Web: Infrastructure and Industry (IHBC Context 186), Manchester's electrical workforce drive, Grenfell Tower statement, Construction output falls by 2.0%, IHBC MARSH Awards.
17/03/2026 - Reslating a water mill, plan-making system, Circular insulation, Recycled plastic, Apprentice of the Year. Web: Regulatory reform, reward management survey, spatial development strategies, research programme on Building Safety. The Plastic Detox, documentary film.
13/03/2026 - UK NZCBS Version 1, Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, AT podcast, ACA recap, enquiries to profitable projects. Web: Glasgow fire, CIAT joins EPF, conservation research and professional practice, new Chief Planning Inspector, HMRC new tax record and reporting requirements.
10/03/2026 - Planning and manufacturing, HEM wrappers, FHS Essentials, Pavilion Brighton, BS recap Feb.
06/03/2026 - Careers campaign, AI automation, design team, Climate Resilience and Adaptation, concrete poetry.
03/03/2026 - Construction Products Reform, stained glass, Skills plan, PFI end, Scottish parents.
27/02/2026 - Call of professional standards, draft NPPF, Interim Chief Construction Advisor, estate management, DRC.
24/02/2026 - Historic roof repair, BS risks, The next electrical generation, Env compliance checklist, UKCW.
20/02/2026 - Gargoyles, Retrofitting for resilience, Safe School Gates Campaign, Core skills, Water on DB.
17/02/2026 - Fire engineering reform, pitched roofs, developer case study, Restoration & Renewal, apprentices.
13/02/2026 - National Apprenticeship Week, CIOB Hong Kong, BS recap Jan, acoustic flooring, types of floor.
10/02/2026 - Electrical skills gap mapped, EDI, IHBC plan for growth, Futurebuild, Sustainable cultural economics.
06/02/2026 - Welsh and Scottish elections, BIM competency, Employment Rights Act, Ireland Retrofit, Rethinking risk.
03/02/2026 - Summoned by bells, CIOB Academy, Solar panels and fire spread, Modernising heat networks.
30/01/2026 - BSR, integrating heat pumps, Welsh Election Manifesto, Resident engaged retrofits, Exchange for Change
27/01/2026 - Old buildings and oligarchs, Warm Homes Plan and Workforce Taskforce, CODE, Circular economy wiki
23/01/2026 - Neural technologies, QS to teacher, The Orange book, Key AI terms, Lego and future engineers
20/01/2026 - AI conservation, CIAT President, rapidly renewable content, skills and progress, Data for material science.
16/01/2026 - Apprentices in Wales, Heat Pumps Historic Buildings, Tenement Revealed, Good Homes, First aid.
13/01/2026 - Fire safety Riser shafts, Brighton Museum roof lantern, Data and tech, Regency style, Council roads.
09/01/2026 - ECA 125, new CIOB CEO, 19C conservation thinking, Snow and ice, Beyond the Warm Homes Plan
06/01/2026 - Wayland Young, AI in construction, CIOB policy updates, BS recap Dec, Jane Jacobs
