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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
HSE simplified advice for installers of stone worktops
After company fined for repeatedly failing to protect workers.
Co-located with 10th year of UK Construction Week.
How orchards can influence planning and development.
Time for knapping, no time for napping
Decorative split stone square patterns in facades.
A practical guide to the use of flint in design and architecture.
Designing for neurodiversity: driving change for the better
Accessible inclusive design translated into reality.
RIBA detailed response to Grenfell Inquiry Phase 2 report
Briefing notes following its initial 4 September response.
Approved Document B: Fire Safety from March
Current and future changes with historical documentation.
A New Year, a new look for BSRIA
As phase 1 of the BSRIA Living Laboratory is completed.
A must-attend event for the architecture industry.
Caroline Gumble to step down as CIOB CEO in 2025
After transformative tenure take on a leadership role within the engineering sector.
RIDDOR and the provisional statistics for 2023 / 2024
Work related deaths; over 50 percent from construction and 50 percent recorded as fall from height.
Solar PV company fined for health and safety failure
Work at height not properly planned and failure to take suitable steps to prevent a fall.
The term value when assessing the viability of developments
Consultation on the compulsory purchase process, compensation reforms and potential removal of hope value.
Trees are part of the history of how places have developed.
Around the web
Shaping safer buildings: New era of compliance under the BSA post Grenfell.
NRH / Futuebuild - EPC Consultation Webinar.
The boring building index.
Streets Ahead: The race to build 1.5m homes.
BS 9991:2024 - Fire Safety in the Design, Management and use of Residential Buildings.
Construction Management, 16 Jan
Grenfell report: RIBA calls for principal contractors licencing scheme.
New threshold changes: what the new rules mean for businesses.
BSI to explore COVID-19's impact on construction's 'hybrid generation'.
FuturHist’s ‘Policy Framework’ on European Policies for Energy Efficiency in Historic Buildings.
Building Controls: An Introduction, online course.
ECA Learning Zone with Hispec - Connected Fire Detection Course.
MHCLG College of Experts - applications open.
CITB: Net Zero industry toolkit.
LA fires: Loss estimate rises to $250bn as dangerous winds continue.
The Property Institute, 28 Oct
Tim Galloway of HSE at the 2024 Annual Conference.
Open consultation energy performance reform ends soon.
Consultation outcome: Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations.