Most read in 2020
The top 10 most read articles on Designing Buildings Wiki in 2020 were:
Article | Number of views | |
1 | Types of drawings | 117,142 |
2 | Bill of quantities | 107,227 |
3 | Tender documentation | 103,031 |
4 | Megacities | 91,495 |
5 | Preliminaries | 84,097 |
6 | Brutalism | 82,614 |
7 | Types of flooring | 82,473 |
8 | Types of brick bonding | 72,933 |
9 | Variations | 71,989 |
10 | Procurement routes | 70,337 |
And in a difficult year, the most read news stories were:
- Coronavirus and force majeure.
- Government publishes UK infrastructure strategy.
- Carbon emissions of electric heating v gas.
- EWS1 forms not required for buildings without cladding.
- Common principles of International Fire Safety Standard introduced.
- Building back better with BREEAM.
- Reform of building safety standards.
- The Construction Playbook.
- Transforming Public Procurement Green Paper.
- Ventilation and control of COVID-19 transmission.
Here's hoping for a better 2021.
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