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Designing Buildings includes 6 microsites - mini wikis about specialist subjects. Created with our partners, they provide easy access to curated knowledge about particular aspects of the built environment:
Features and news
For the World Autism Awareness Month of April.
70+ experts appointed to public sector fire safety framework
The Fire Safety (FS2) Framework from LHC Procurement.
Project and programme management codes of practice
CIOB publications for built environment professionals.
The ECA Industry Awards 2024 now open !
Recognising the best in the electrotechnical industry.
Sustainable development concepts decade by decade.
The regenerative structural engineer
A call for design that will repair the natural world.
Buildings that mimic the restorative aspects found in nature.
CIAT publishes Principal Designer Competency Framework
For those considering applying for registration as a PD.
BSRIA Building Reg's guidance: The second staircase
An overview focusing on aspects which most affect the building services industry.
Design codes and pattern books
Harmonious proportions and golden sections.
Introducing or next Guest Editor Arun Baybars
Practising architect and design panel review member.
Quick summary by size, shape, test, material, use or bonding.
Types of rapidly renewable content
From forestry to agricultural crops and their by-products.
Terraced houses and the public realm
The discernible difference between the public realm of detached housing and of terraced housing.
Around the web
Construction Management, April 23
Building Safety Levy proposed for Scotland.
National Autistic Society, April
Autism Accreditation
Scottish Government urged to hold nerve on Passivhaus policy.
Survey | FET Skills for the Green Economy.
Clarification on Professional Construction Consultants demonstrating competence.
Construction Management, April 22
Just how sustainable is PV?
Sign up for the BSRIA Earth Day digital toolkit.
Copenhagen and Paris mayors discuss lessons learned after fires wreck landmarks.
The Role of Land Policy in (post) War Ukraine.
The Good Law Project, February 24
Government climate risk tables published after court hearing.
Construction Management, April 18
Building Safety Regulator urged to clarify Gateway 2 design requirements.
China’s cities are sinking, study says.
Flat House review – a home made from hemp that will blow your mind.
Meet the client: Duncan Blackmore, Arrant Land.
Meet the expert, Carl Vann
Walkable, multi-use development given planning approval.
London feeds itself, expanded 2nd edition.