Newsletter archive 2022
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23/12/2022 - Emotional architecture, SF6 phase out, women in project management.
20/12/2022 - Insulating shutters, biomass boilers, residential heating.
16/12/2022 - Saunas, engineer timber, timber species.
13/12/2022 - Snow and ice buildings, power cuts, diversity in heritage.
9/12/2022 - Flying factories, ChatGPT, change management.
6/12/2022 - Conflict zones, queer spaces, cultural suppression.
2/12/2022 - Infrared heating, thermal comfort, surface heating.
29/11/2022 - The history of oconservation areas, shop signs, types of structural load.
25/11/2022 - Sustainability standards, The Burrell Collection, net zero buildings guide.
22/11/2022 - Copper roofing, iron frames, Autumn statement.
18/11/2022 - Free webinar, Bedzed, Gregor Harvie profile.
15/11/2022 - Hydrogen colours, wrought iron, black inclusion.
11/11/2022 - COP 27, timber gridshells, loss and damage.
8/11/2022 - Party conferences, CIAT film series, COP 27.
4/11/2022 - Webinar poll, cracking in buildings, waste traps.
1/11/2022 - Floating communities, hop kilns, net zero terminology.
28/10/2022 - Upskilling, build for life webinars, where its AT films.
25/10/2022 - Another new PM, Britain's best stations, heritage competence.
21/10/2022 - Art of photography, Net zero guide, accelerating diversity.
18/10/2022 - Economic Advisory Council, mould in historic buildings, World Menopause Day.
14/10/2022 - Battersea Power Station photos, designing with daylight, Social Value Act.
11/10/2022 - Shipton Sollars St Mary, railway buildings, green wood structures.
7/9/2022 - Which is the most common procurement route, new wiring regs, apprenticeships for prisoners.
4/9/2022 - A tour of Kyiv, modular housing, appurtenance.
30/9/2022 - Extra-contractual recoveries, women in project management, holistically designed homes.
27/9/2022 - Mini budget, weathervanes, Housing minister.
23/9/2022 - Ecotourism, biosolar, net zero buildings standard.
20/9/2022 - Airflow, design codes, construction historian.
16/9/2022 - State events, Spon's 2023, Future Homes Standard.
13/9/2022 - Pattern books, timber conservation, metallurgy.
9/9/2022 - Half mast flags, Construction Playbook, traditional buildings and moisture.
6/9/2022 - History of the building regulations, EPD's, calcination.
2/9/2022 - Fast track planning, architectural technology films, tool theft.
30/8/2022 - The history of timber, Harrogate in 1988, densification.
26/8/2022 - Carbon cycle, off-site manufacturing, visualising daylight.
23/8/2022 - Phone box listing, ego-state negotiation, coal houses.
19/8/2022 - Dry soil, refurbishment, political instability.
16/8/2022 - Unequal pay, rooflights, temperature.
12/8/2022 - Overheating, bricks, smoke detectors.
9/8/2022 - Theipval, landownership in 1909, occupant wellbeing.
5/8/2022 - Deep geothermal, insulation, building services revolution.
2/8/2022 - Cemetourism, design chill, Glasgow 2030.
29/7/2022 - Building safety fund, approved documents digitalisation, RIBA law survey.
26/7/2022 - Sizewell C, neighbourhood plans, solar shading.
22/7/2022 - Solar irradiance, curved intersections, indoor air quality.
19/7/2022 - High street histories, British bridges, climate adaptation.
15/7/2022 - Chimney cowls, ecosystem services, Fire Safety Act.
12/7/2022 - Seaside from above, Nottingham Broadmarsh, indoor air contaminants.
8/7/2022 - APM associate membership offer, AI and project management, adoptive architecture.
5/7/2022 - CIAT chief exec stands down, heritage funding, building safety changes.
1/7/2022 - Building Safety Act, BSRIA conference, CIOB president.
28/6/2022 - Women in engineering, the high street, PAS 2080.
24/6/2022 - 10 years anniversary, temperature, alterations to existing buildings.
21/6/2022 - Climate change and heritage, Bristol Joint Station, air quality.
17/6/2022 - Approved documents, cabman shelters, air quality hub.
14/6/2022 - CSCS cards, hydroponics, heritage on the edge.
10/6/2022 - Curtains, Approved Document 0, PSTN and lifts.
7/6/2022 - Heritage, levelling up, code of practice for project management.
3/6/2022 - Platinum, fire regulation changes, city networks.
31/5/2022 - Zinc roofing, electrotechnical contractors, public consultation.
27/5/2022 - Water treatment, boilers, coping or capping.
24/5/2022 - Bee buildings, heritage Australia, fire door inspection.
20/5/2022 - Heat pumps, limestone, public transport funding.
17/5/2022 - Inspection and test plan, dynamic conditions, PAS 128.
13/5/2022 - Agile project management, infrastructure maintenance, Queen's speech.
10/5/2022 - Delisting Liverpool, repairing the Iron Bridge, air conditioning inflation.
6/5/2022 - Modern slavery, product survey, Building Safety Act.
3/5/2022 - Building Safety Act, PPE Regulations, Bath stone.
29/4/2022 - Types of roof, resilient infrastructure, BSRIA conference.
26/4/2022 - Heat pumps, aquatic tourism, brutalism.
22/4/2022 - APM sponsorship, SAID, BS 8356.
19/4/2022 - Wonder Egg, refrigerants, Powis Castle.
15/4/2022 - Cladding agreement, space architecture, wiring regulations.
12/4/2022 - Lock islands, building safety bill, green belt.
8/4/2022 - BIM survey, BSRIA Blue Book, social value.
5/4/2022 - Mid-rise buildings, the river Severn, zero carbon guidance.
1/4/2022 - Products, flooding and resilience, Gemini principles.
29/3/2022 - ICE knowledge networks, wrought iron, church maintenance.
25/3/2022 - Urban tress, product regulations, bungaroosh.
22/3/2022 - Kurt Schwitters, Magdeburg Cathedral, electric panel heaters.
18/3/2022 - Overheating, heritage on the edge, acoustic insulation.
15/3/2022 - Statutory compliance inspection, Mates in Mind, exedra.
11/3/2022 - Manx architecture, Building Safety Bill, designing for dementia.
8/3/2022 - Audits, architectural regeneration, types of city.
4/3/2022 - Designing Buildings Anywhere, Building Safety Bill, Safer Buildings Conference.
1/3/2022 - Planned obsolescence, roller blinds, Wentworth Woodhouse.
25/2/2022 - English perpendicular, climate resilience, Hong Kong shophouse.
22/2/2022 - Building preservation, The Co-Op, Dan Rigamonti.
18/2/2022 - Value mapping, electrification, rail priorities.
15/2/2022 - Town partnerships, soft power, eaves insulators.
11/2/2022 - Burrell reopening, Approved documents, Pimlico Plumbers.
8/2/2022 - Purbeck stone, voluntary conservation, types of building.
4/2/2022 - Cyber security, Highway Code, cost of living.
1/2/2022 - Working from height, SAVE campaign, safe rooms.
28/1/2022 - Building Safety Bill, wiring regulations, tin.
25/1/2022 - Statutory listing, safe isolation, mimetic architecture.
21/1/2022 - Drawing types, electric vehicle connection, silicosis consultation.
18/1/2022 - Dick Nunn's bridge, Islamic architecture, construction product regulations.
14/1/2022 - Energy prices, hatching, MEAT to MAT.
11/1/2022 - Community heritage, bronze, building better schools.
7/1/2022 - Dispute avoidance, indoor air quality, smart motorways.
4/1/2022 - Top 20 of 2021, types of buildings, Editor wanted.
Featured articles and news
BSRIA Statutory Compliance Inspection Checklist
BG80/2025 now significantly updated to include requirements related to important changes in legislation.
Shortlist for the 2025 Roofscape Design Awards
Talent and innovation showcase announcement from the trussed rafter industry.
OpenUSD possibilities: Look before you leap
Being ready for the OpenUSD solutions set to transform architecture and design.
Global Asbestos Awareness Week 2025
Highlighting the continuing threat to trades persons.
Retrofit of Buildings, a CIOB Technical Publication
Now available in Arabic and Chinese aswell as English.
The context, schemes, standards, roles and relevance of the Building Safety Act.
Retrofit 25 – What's Stopping Us?
Exhibition Opens at The Building Centre.
Types of work to existing buildings
A simple circular economy wiki breakdown with further links.
A threat to the creativity that makes London special.
How can digital twins boost profitability within construction?
The smart construction dashboard, as-built data and site changes forming an accurate digital twin.
Unlocking surplus public defence land and more to speed up the delivery of housing.
The Planning and Infrastructure Bill
An outline of the bill with a mix of reactions on potential impacts from IHBC, CIEEM, CIC, ACE and EIC.
Farnborough College Unveils its Half-house for Sustainable Construction Training.
Spring Statement 2025 with reactions from industry
Confirming previously announced funding, and welfare changes amid adjusted growth forecast.
Scottish Government responds to Grenfell report
As fund for unsafe cladding assessments is launched.
CLC and BSR process map for HRB approvals
One of the initial outputs of their weekly BSR meetings.
Building Safety Levy technical consultation response
Details of the planned levy now due in 2026.
Great British Energy install solar on school and NHS sites
200 schools and 200 NHS sites to get solar systems, as first project of the newly formed government initiative.
600 million for 60,000 more skilled construction workers
Announced by Treasury ahead of the Spring Statement.