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Designing Buildings Wiki is the construction industry knowledge base, used by 8 million people a year to share articles about products, services, processes and best practice. Our users are construction professionals looking for knowledge to help them in their work.
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| 70,000 | 35,000 | 14,500 | 16,000 | 10,000 |
[edit] User breakdown
The breakdown of our registered users is shown below:
| Designers | 30% |
| Other consultants | 22% |
| Students | 13% |
| Contractors | 7% |
| Others | 28% |
[edit] Categories traffic
| Subject area | Category | Percentage of total traffic |
| Project activities | Appointments | 7.7 |
| BIM | 2.7 | |
| Client procedures | 8.3 | |
| Contracts / payment | 25.9 | |
| Construction management | 24.1 | |
| Construction techniques | 13.4 | |
| Cost / business planning | 14.1 | |
| Design | 24.6 | |
| Procurement | 26.6 | |
| Products / components | 14.9 | |
| Property development | 4.7 | |
| Public procedures | 3.9 | |
| Roles / services | 6.5 | |
| Legislaton and standards | Case law | 1.0 |
| Health and safety / CDM | 7.4 | |
| Other legislation | 6.7 | |
| Planning permission | 4.3 | |
| Policy | 2.2 | |
| Property law | 2.9 | |
| Regulations | 6.7 | |
| Standards / measurements | 8.6 | |
| Sustainability | 5.0 | |
| Taxation | 1.4 | |
| Industry context | Conservation | 2.1 |
| Education | 0.5 | |
| History | 3.3 | |
| International | 2.4 | |
| Organisations | 1.5 | |
| Projects and case studies | 2.9 | |
| Publications / reports | 2.0 | |
| Research / innovation | 1.7 | |
| Theory | 6.2 |
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