The 25 most read articles on DB for 2024
In June 2024 we celebrated 12 years of Designing Buildings; its aim is to put construction industry knowledge in one place, and make it available to everyone free. In the past 12 years, 19,000 articles have been added to the site covering the planning, design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of built assets. There are over 6,000 definitions and 4,000 acronyms, making it the broadest resources of information for construction anywhere in the world.
The site has been used by millions people from every part of the industry and from every part of the world, and we continue to provide everything for free.
Here again, as part of our yearly tradition, we take a quick look at what people have been interested in, in terms of new articles and older articles that continue to be popular. So here are the top 25 articles of 2024:
- Procurement route
- Strip foundation
- Preliminaries in construction
- Bill of quantities
- Building regulations
- Gross internal area
- Extension of time
- Variations in construction contracts
- Two-stage tender
- Construction contract
- BS 9999: Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
- Practical completion
- Building design and construction fees
- Contract administrator for construction contracts
- Traditional contract for construction
- U-values
- Tender documentation for construction projects
- Pre-construction services agreement
- Liquidated damages in construction contracts
- Typical tender process for construction projects
- Pile foundations
- Raft foundation
- Employer's requirements for building design and construction
- RIBA plan of work
- Contractor's design portion
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