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10/03/2026 - Planning and manufacturing, HEM wrappers, FHS Essentials, Pavilion Brighton, BS recap Feb.
06/03/2026 - Careers campaign, AI automation, design team, Climate Resilience and Adaptation, concrete poetry.
03/03/2026 - Construction Products Reform, stained glass, Skills plan, PFI end, Scottish parents.
27/02/2026 - Call of professional standards, draft NPPF, Interim Chief Construction Advisor, estate management, DRC.
24/02/2026 - Historic roof repair, BS risks, The next electrical generation, Env compliance checklist, UKCW.
20/02/2026 - Gargoyles, Retrofitting for resilience, Safe School Gates Campaign, Core skills, Water on DB.
17/02/2026 - Fire engineering reform, pitched roofs, developer case study, Restoration & Renewal, apprentices.
13/02/2026 - National Apprenticeship Week, CIOB Hong Kong, BS recap Jan, acoustic flooring, types of floor.
10/02/2026 - Electrical skills gap mapped, EDI, IHBC plan for growth, Futurebuild, Sustainable cultural economics.
06/02/2026 - Welsh and Scottish elections, BIM competency, Employment Rights Act, Ireland Retrofit, Rethinking risk.
03/02/2026 - Summoned by bells, CIOB Academy, Solar panels and fire spread, Modernising heat networks.
30/01/2026 - BSR, integrating heat pumps, Welsh Election Manifesto, Resident engaged retrofits, Exchange for Change
27/01/2026 - Old buildings and oligarchs, Warm Homes Plan and Workforce Taskforce, CODE, Circular economy wiki
23/01/2026 - Neural technologies, QS to teacher, The Orange book, Key AI terms, Lego and future engineers
20/01/2026 - AI conservation, CIAT President, rapidly renewable content, skills and progress, Data for material science.
16/01/2026 - Apprentices in Wales, Heat Pumps Historic Buildings, Tenement Revealed, Good Homes, First aid.
13/01/2026 - Fire safety Riser shafts, Brighton Museum roof lantern, Data and tech, Regency style, Council roads.
09/01/2026 - ECA 125, new CIOB CEO, 19C conservation thinking, Snow and ice, Beyond the Warm Homes Plan
06/01/2026 - Wayland Young, AI in construction, CIOB policy updates, BS recap Dec, Jane Jacobs
Featured articles and news
Costs and insolvencies mount for SMEs, despite growth
Construction sector under insolvency and wage bill pressure in part linked to National Insurance, says report.
The place for vitrified clay pipes in modern infrastructure
Why vitrified clay pipes are reclaiming their role in built projects.
Research by construction PR consultancy LMC published.
Roles and responsibilities of domestic clients
ACA Safety in Construction guide for domestic clients.
Fire door compliance in UK commercial buildings
Architect and manufacturer gives their low down.
Plumbing and heating for sustainability in new properties
Technical Engineer runs through changes in regulations, innovations in materials, and product systems.
Awareness of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
What CBAM is and what to do about it.
The new towns and strategic environmental assessments
12 locations of the New Towns Taskforce reduced to 7 within the new towns draft programme and open consultation.
Buildings that changed the future of architecture. Book review.
The Sustainability Pathfinder© Handbook
Built environment agency launches free Pathfinder© tool to help businesses progress sustainability strategies.
Government outcome to the late payment consultation, ECA reacts.
IHBC 2025 Gus Astley Student Award winners
Work on the role of hewing in UK historic conservation a win for Jack Parker of Oxford Brookes University.
Future Homes Building Standards and plug-in solar
Parts F and L amendments, the availability of solar panels and industry responses.
How later living housing can help solve the housing crisis
Unlocking homes, unlocking lives.
Preparing safety case reports for HRBs under the BSA
A new practical guide to preparing structural inputs for safety cases and safety case reports published by IStructE.
Male construction workers and prostate cancer
CIOB and Prostate Cancer UK encourage awareness of prostate cancer risks, and what to do about it.