The 25 most read articles on DB for 2024

In June 2022 we celebrated 10 years of Designing Buildings; its aim was to put construction industry knowledge in one place and make it available to everyone free. In the past 12 years, 18,000 articles have been added to the site covering a variety of topics covering planning, design, construction, operation, and decommissioning of built assets. There are over 6,000 definitions and 4,000 acronyms, making it one of the broadest resources of information for construction that is updated daily.

The site has been used by over 45 million people from every part of the industry and from every part of the world, and we continue to provide the site available for free and on the basis of knowledge sharing, with around 120 million page views. Here again, as part of our yearly tradition, we take a quick look at what people have been interested in, in terms of new articles updated in 2024 and other articles that continue their popularity. So here are the top 25 articles up to 2024:

1. Procurement route
2. Strip foundation
3. Preliminaries in construction
4. Bill of quantities BOQ
5. Building regulations
6. Gross internal area GIA
7. Extension of time EOT in construction contracts
8. Variations in construction contracts
9. Two-stage tender
10. Construction contract
11. BS 9999: Code of practice for fire safety in the design, management and use of buildings
12. Practical completion
13. Building design and construction fees
14. Contract administrator for construction contracts
15. Traditional contract for construction
16. U-values
17. Tender documentation for construction projects
18. Pre-construction services agreement PCSA
19. Liquidated damages in construction contracts
20. Typical tender process for construction projects
21. Pile foundations
22. Raft foundation
23. Employer's requirements for building design and construction
24. RIBA plan of work
25. Contractor's design portion

Here are the top 25 articles updated and viewed in 2024:

1. NEC4
2. Building Safety Act 2022
3. ACM cladding
4. Hackitt review of the building regulations and fire safety, final report
5. NEC4 Design, Build and Operate Contract
6. Level 3 BIM
7. Farmer Review 2016: Modernise or die
8. Ronan Point
9. BREEAM International New Construction Version 6
10. BS 8210:2020 facilities maintenance management code of practice
11. How to comply with the Building Safety Case: Fire and Emergency File
12. BS 5839-1: Fire detection and fire alarm system for buildings. Code of practice for design, installation and commissioning and maintenance of systems in non-domestic premises
13. MMC Champion
14. PAS 2038 and older buildings
15. BIM for Dummies - an interview
16. NEC4 - legal and insurance aspects
17. NEC early warning notices - a tool of mutual benefit
18. Statutory Compliance Inspection Checklist
19. RIBA client adviser
20. Fire doors in buildings
21. Timber framed buildings and fire
22. Approved document o
23. Twisting buildings
24. Grenfell Tower fire
25. Celotex RS5000 PIR insulation

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