Win £500 and a commendation from the CIOB

We’ve teamed up with The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) to launch an open competition for the best new article added to Designing Buildings Wiki.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 5PM FRIDAY 3 MAY.

Here are three top tips for how to win:

• Sanity check. Get someone else to read your article.
• Write facts not opinions. You shouldn’t need to write ‘I’ or ‘we’.
• Think encyclopaedia not magazine. Would your article work on Wikipedia?

It’s a great opportunity to get a competition win on your CV and raise your profile at the same time.

Click here to find out more about the competition.

Two brilliant new articles by The College of Estate Management:

• Change is coming. So what are the differences between NRM2 and SMM7? A section by section comparison. Read more …
• What issues influence the selection of structural systems in office design? Read more …

And a couple of other fascinating new articles:

• Can spiders be used to stop the spread of woodworm? A recent trial suggests there may be scope for using spiders rather than sprays to control woodworm populations. The introduction of a few spiders can break the woodworm cycle by catching the beetles before they lay eggs. Read more...
• Live event production. A comprehensive description of this rapidly changing discipline. It’s construction, but not as we know it. Read more…

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