Newsletter archive 2025
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19/12/2025 - Construction regulator prospectus, HE Strategy and Roadmap, Christmas rhyme time, Lighting the way.
16/12/2025 - SAVE at 50, CIOB Houses of Parliament event, Choosing the right skirting, Dorset Houses.
12/12/2025 - Pride in Place, Apprentice to vice-chair, BS recap November, Constructionarium UK CLT.
09/12/2025 - AT podcast, John Ashurst, DESNZ report, Gehry 1929-2025, reuse of empty buildings.
05/12/2025 - Day one unfair dismissal protection, empty offices and housing shortage, BUS update and consultation.
02/12/2025 - CIAT 60th and new President, skills gaps in construction, hovel to heaven, .ASBP and BE-ST
28/11/2025 - Budget, Crafts in crisis to rubbish in retrofit, COP 30, Planning and Infrastructure Bill, ECA award
25/11/2025 - Sustainability and housing, Climate Society, Inclusive values conservation SocEnv, BSRIA team.
21/11/2025 - Roof glazing, Flexible Skills Programme, GB CPR amendments, AI, quality materials.
18/11/2025 - BSR, electricity levies, literary food chain, late payments, fire door tests.
14/11/2025 - Rooflight refurb, BNG, Air con market and CIOB client survey.
11/11/2025 - Solid-state cooling, PCSAs, V&A 50, The arc, Electrification roundtable.
07/11/2025 - Fast track housing, Nairn’s Liverpool, CCPI, Marie Curie House, competency for products.
04/11/2025 - Brick tech, retrofit, BSRIA CTO, ECA Action areas and stair LEDs.
31/10/2025 - CIAT 60, NFCC, Kent skills, research insight and building hub.
28/10/2025 - Awaab's law, temporary structures, ageing in place.
24/10/2025 - Video tutorial, construction management hub, digital construction report.
21/10/2025 - The Crooked House, environmental metrics and unforgettable gardens.
17/10/2025 - BSRIA lighting, green skills, Irish budget, ECO4, GBIS light articles.
14/10/2025 - Broken pots, mending lives, Inclusive Healthcare Design, Process Redesign and BSw recap.
10/10/2025 - Mental Health day, heritage healing, industry capacity, new towns, safe schools.
7/10/2025 - Management Hub, Awaab's law, collaborative practice, workforce crisis, LIPF.
3/10/2025 - Mould safety centre and historic buildings, CIOB award, cleaner air, retrofit.
30/9/2025 - Wellbeing Culture and buildings, part G, water efficiency, electric skills alliance.
26/9/2025 - Cultural safety, BREEAM at 35 updated, Late payments, Value Stream Mapping, UKCW.
23/9/2025 - Warm Homes Plan, Fire Door Safety Week, Sustaining heritage values, CIOB conf.
19/9/2025 - Safety minister, Awards; AT, IHBC and ECA, HA embodied carbon report.
16/9/2025 - Grimshaw, housing infrastructure, economics, heritage, wellbeing, Manhattan.
12/9/2025 - Wired for growth, Decent Homes Standards, popular pages, valves and tax.
9/9/2025 - BSRIA AQH, Biochar, coatings, Northwold Manor, smart estimates.
5/9/2025 - Scot Housing Emergency, retentions, state of trade, green skills, stairs.
2/9/2025 - CIOB Aspire, wellbeing, heritage, UBE Place Building, online product accountability.
29/8/2025 - Payment performance, waste, empty spaces, land assembly,
26/8/2025 - LB prosecutions databasse, NZCBS, Part Z, Podcasts.
22/8/2025 - Infrastructure regulation, 1.5 million, CIOB and product competency.
19/8/2025 - Rooflights, construction products, George Clarke.
15/8/2025 - Flowcharting, procurement, conservation fund.
12/8/2025 - Fasteners, building safety update, John Soane.
8/8/2025 - Approved documents, BREEAM, sustainability frameworks.
5/8/2025 - Earth blocks, building safety, late payment.
1/8/2025 - Building safety, BACS market, the Belfast group.
29/7/2025 - Rex Whislter, Clovelly, restoring clay bricks.
25/7/2025 - Earth Overshoot Day, gateway 2 guidance, cladding remediation.
22/7/2025 - Listed buildings, net zero, circularity.
18/7/2025 - Safety inquiry, AC market, climate report.
15/7/2025 - Debarment proceedings, heat interface units, water scarcity.
11/7/2025 - Consultations, cladding fires, ZEDpod.
8/7/2025 - Common assessment standard, climate resilience roadmap.
4/7/2025 - Overheating, housing strategy, housing bank.
1/7/2025 - Building Safety Regulator, cool spaces, industrial strategy.
27/6/2025 - Infrastructure strategy, recruitment plan, ARB code.
24/6/2025 - Grenfell 8 years on, airtightness, Ebenezer Howard.
20/6/2025 - Sustainability School, Building Safety Week, ground floor construction.
17/6/2025 - Future Homes Standard, spending review, clean air.
13/6/2025 - Spending review, architecture in film, SELECT plan.
10/6/2025 - People-first retrofit, recycled slate, CIOB client guide.
6/6/2025 - EPC's, Edwin Rickards, heat pump market.
3/6/2025 - Apprenticeships, planning reform, heating listed buildings.
30/5/2025 - Licensing housebuilders, golden thread, sme housebuilders.
26/5/2025 - Pinwill sisters, retrofit, buildings at risk list.
23/5/2025 - Boiler upgrade, warm homes, Lo-E buildings.
20/5/2025 - Women in art, places of worship, Grenfell oversight.
16/5/2025 - Mental health, water saving week, precast foundations.
13/5/2025 - Materials libraries, Villa Wolf, smog reducing facades.
9/5/2025 - Electric heating, PPN 021, CIAT competency framework.
6/5/2025 - 20,000 articles, quality culture, biophilic design.
2/5/2025 - Solar shading, 5S method, electrification.
29/4/2025 - Blue plaques, gridshells, building control review panel.
25/4/2025 - AI, smart appliances, competency-based degrees.
22/4/2025 - Gregor Harvie on AI, coal tar, heat pump calcs.
15/4/2025 - Electricity levies, environmental permits, prefabs.
11/4/2025 - Welsh regs consultation, building safety wiki, Christopher Wren.
8/4/2025 - Building safety, maintaining tenements, design automation.
4/4/2025 - Asbestos, retrofit, openUSD.
1/4/2025 - Planning and infrastructure bill, New Homes Taskforce, gentrification.
28/3/2025 - Spring statement, building safety levy, Great British Energy.
25/3/2025 - Cladding remediation, skills funding, DH Lawrence.
21/3/2025 - Warm homes, lifts of the future, building safety levy.
18/3/2205 - BSRIA rebrand, urban council housing, BS9991.
14/3/2025 - Balcony biodiversity, SUDS, electrical skills.
11/3/2025 - Damp, Alexander Pope's Grotto, conservation training.
7/3/2025 - SDGs, rebuilding Ukraine, International Women's Day.
4/3/2025 - Timber routemap, sustainability framework, electrifying our future.
28/2/2025 - Grenfell Inquiry, Procurement Act, Grenfell web of blame.
25/2/2025 - MEES consultation, heritage training, mapping and flowcharting.
21/2/2025 - Slavery, new towns, AI boom.
18/2/2025 - Hardwick Old Hall, safety transfers to MHCLG, air con market.
14/2/2025 - 60 years of CIAT, bats in churches, EPC consultation.
11/2/2025 - Humidity resilience, Grenfell Tower, heritage management plans.
7/2/2025 - Building Safety Act, Detail Library, wellbeing.
4/2/2025 - British stone, brutalism, commissioning responsibilities.
31/1/2025 - Building safety wiki, deposit return schemes, CDM duties.
28/1/2025 - Birkenhead Park, common land, permitted development.
24/1/2025 - Building Safety Act, Finance Alliance, licensing construction.
21/1/2025 - Neurodiversity, building with flint, stone worktop installation.
17/1/2025 - Grenfell Inquiry, Approved Documents, Futurebuild.
14/1/2025 - Compulsory purchase, cladding remediation, work-related deaths.
10/1/2025 - Mould, private rental selective licensing, architectural technologist salaries.
7/1/2025 - Health and safety, Northern forest, thermal plaster.
3/1/2025 - Most read articles, Grenfell Tower site, heritage preservation.
Featured articles and news
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Strengthening industry collaboration in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Institute of Construction and The Chartered Institute of Building sign Memorandum of Understanding.
A detailed description from the experts at Cornish Lime.
IHBC planning for growth with corporate plan development
Grow with the Institute by volunteering and CP25 consultation.
Connecting ambition and action for designers and specifiers.
Electrical skills gap deepens as apprenticeship starts fall despite surging demand says ECA.
Built environment bodies deepen joint action on EDI
B.E.Inclusive initiative agree next phase of joint equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) action plan.
Recognising culture as key to sustainable economic growth
Creative UK Provocation paper: Culture as Growth Infrastructure.
Futurebuild and UK Construction Week London Unite
Creating the UK’s Built Environment Super Event and over 25 other key partnerships.
Welsh and Scottish 2026 elections
Manifestos for the built environment for upcoming same May day elections.
Advancing BIM education with a competency framework
“We don’t need people who can just draw in 3D. We need people who can think in data.”