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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.

Retrofit projects and roles

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.

Gentrification

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.

The Public Land Taskforce

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.

The Aldershot Half-house

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.

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