Top 20 new articles in 2021
The most popular new articles added to Designing Buildings in 2021 were:
- Submersible bridge
- Archidict
- Quality Benchmarks - A Construction Perspective
- What do design professionals need to know about U-value calculation conventions?
- Charter for diversity and inclusion in construction and special report launched by CIOB
- Information management mandate
- Stink pipes
- Edwardian architecture
- Radial city plan
- Suspended timber floor
- BS 476
- Dust heap
- Funicular
- Black excellence in UK civil engineering
- Digital transformation - what does it mean?
- Fourth industrial revolution
- Flood Resistant Construction
- An algorithm in architecture
- Biocement
- Pavilion
Featured articles and news
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.
The place for vitrified clay pipes in modern infrastructure
Why vitrified clay pipes are reclaiming their role in built projects.
Research by construction PR consultancy LMC published.
Roles and responsibilities of domestic clients
ACA Safety in Construction guide for domestic clients.
Fire door compliance in UK commercial buildings
Architect and manufacturer gives their low down.