Newsletter archive
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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
Check out some of the best features and news from Designing Buildings as well as key stories from around the web.
CIOB announces Saul Humphrey FCIOB as new President for 26/27 term.
A quick, simple, and zero-bills solution to prevent overheating.
The adaptive reuse of large industrial structures.
Promoting the circular economy by extending the life of buildings.
CIAT responds to Climate Change Committee report
An urgent wake-up call for both government and the built environment.
Construction Management, 24 June
FMB pilot aims to build pipeline of site-ready tradespeople.
A quick introduction.
CLC publishes Mental Health Joint Code of Practice.
A quick introduction to its uses and risks.
Construction Management, 17 June
Government rolls out digital planning tool to all local authorities.
Your views needed - a strategy for the professions, trades and occupations.
Confronting competency, codes, capacity and costs.
The hidden risk in modern construction supply chains.