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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
Featured articles and news
Cutting construction carbon footprint by caring for soil
Is construction neglecting one of the planet’s most powerful carbon stores and one of our greatest natural climate allies.
ARCHITECTURE: How's it progressing?
Archiblogger posing questions of a historical and contextual nature.
The roofscape of Hampstead Garden Suburb
Residents, architects and roofers need to understand detailing.
Homes, landlords. tenants and the new housing standards
What will it all mean?
The Architectural Technology podcast: Where it's AT
Catch-up on the latest episodes.
Edmundson Apprentice of the Year award 2026
Entries now open for this Electrical Contractors' Association award.
Traditional blue-grey slate from one of the oldest and largest UK slate quarries down in Cornwall.
There are plenty of sources with the potential to be redeveloped.
Change of use legislation breaths new life into buildings
A run down on Class MA of the General Permitted Development Order.
Solar generation in the historic environment
Success requires understanding each site in detail.
Level 6 Design, Construction and Management BSc
CIOB launches first-ever degree programme to develop the next generation of construction leaders.
Open for business as of April, with its 2026 prospectus and new pipeline of housing schemes.
The operational value of workforce health
Keeping projects moving. Incorporating unplanned absence and the importance of health, in operations.
A carbon case for indigenous slate
UK slate can offer clear embodied carbon advantages.
Costs and insolvencies mount for SMEs, despite growth
Construction sector under insolvency and wage bill pressure in part linked to National Insurance, says report.