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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
The benefits of writing articles for your organisation
How to create a profile for your organisation and publish for free.
No Falls Week. The importance of safe working at height
What to expect and what is on offer to avoid accidents.
Scottish Government action to reach net-zero targets
Retrofit expert group highlight critical actions needed.
A forward thinking, inclusive global community of members.
From engineered product life-spans, to their extension.
Circular economy in the built environment
A brief description from 2021. Where are we now?
Mental Health Awareness Week with ABS
Architects Benevolent Society programme of activity.
CLC publishes domestic retrofit competency framework
Roadmap of Skills for net zero.
May 13-19: Moving more for our mental health.
Understanding is key to conservation.
Open industry engagement survey seeks responses
Institutions and the importance of engagement.
National Retrofit Hub unveils new guide
Digital Building Logbooks and Retrofit: An Introduction.
Enhancing construction site reporting efficiency
Through digitisation and the digital revolution.
Noise in the built environment
BSRIA guide TG 20/2021.
17,000 people suffer conditions as a result of exposure to excessive noise at work.
Turning down the noise: Auditory health
A pervasive risk with far-reaching consequences.
Getting the most out of heat pumps and heating
How heat pumps work and how they work best.
Electrotechnical excellence, now open for entries.
Around the web
Policy Exchange: Tall buildings is not the housing solution.
Do you provide retrofit advisory services to local authorities?
The urgent international push to decarbonise construction.
Nearly a million German construction workers to strike.
Sectors, Industries and the Doughnut: Gaining Insights to Your Needs.
Legal challenge bid against Ringway demolition.
Time to Question Demolition!
Contractors face mental health quiz to win work.
The Building Centre, until August
RETROFIT 24: The Reuse Agenda for Our Commercial, Cultural & Civic Buildings.
Digital skills’ role in the retrofit revolution.
JCT announces release schedule for Minor Works 2024.
HE updates on Levelling-Up and Regeneration Act Regulations.
Airedale hospital tackles RAAC with GIS-based digital twin.
Construction Management, May 5
Police recover lorry carrying stolen plant before it leaves UK.
Skanska wins contract to overhaul Boston airport garage.
Free pre-conference CPD webinar series.
Upholding excellence: The Architects Code of Conduct and Practice.
IHBC, Heritage from the doorstep. April 30
Edinburgh’s gasholder taking shape for future public park.
New Structural Compendium published for the assessment of higher-risk buildings.