Newsletter archive 2017
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29/12/2017 - Engineers and existing infrastructure, rogue landlords, panopticon...
22/12/2017 - Top 10 of 2017, conserving church buildings, National Security Survey...
19/12/2017 - Top 5 interviews, contract vs tort, rebuilding Homs...
15/12/2017 - Humans in construction, construction plant, cladding guidance...
12/12/2017 - Conservative surgery, off-site construction, CONIAN, cavity wall...
8/12/2017 - Transforming infrastructure performance, autonomous vehicles, FinTech...
5/12/2017 - Changing attitudes to flood resilience, fragmented industry, BIM project plan...
1/12/2017 - Construction industry Brexit manifesto, Draft London Plan, sprinklers...
28/11/2017 - Industrial strategy, Liveable Yangon, water resource planning...
24/11/2017 - Ideas competition winner, Autumn Budget, off-site construction, Joint Fire Code...
21/11/2017 - Energy from waste, BSRIA Briefing 2017, CIAT President, Northern Powerhouse...
17/11/2017 - Late payment, sustainability buzzwords, defects in dot and dab...
14/11/2017 - Circular economy, civil engineering resources, Robin Hood Gardens...
10/11/2017 - Interview with BSRIA, CITB review, highways infrastructure, solar shading....
07/11/2017 - Turncoats debate, new ICE President, soft landings, British Museum WCEC...
03/11/2017 - The new Silk Road, Stirling Prize, Green Deal consultation, Tirau...
31/10/2017 - Self-healing concrete, BIM DataBook, Karl Marx-Hof...
27/10/2017 - Interview with David Orr, housebuilding funding, Kobe Port Tower...
24/10/2017 - Affordable and sustainable housing, T Charge, St. Mark's Basilica...
20/10/2017 - Lost Utopias, humanitarian shelter, Hinkley Point delays...
17/10/2017 - Sustainable historic places, fire protection, Habitat 67...
13/10/2017 - Green infrastructure, T Levels, aggregates, Bank of China Tower...
10/10/2017 - Robots, knowledge gap video, town flats...
06/10/2017 - BSRIA competition, latent defects, Tory conference...
03/10/2017 - Cyber security, Richard Rogers book, spinklers...
29/09/2017 - Structural Timber Association, Labour conference, retrofitting...
26/09/2017 - Fit for purpose launch, off site goods, Montparnasse Tower...
22/09/2017 - The knowledge gap, perceptions of construction, artificial intelligence...
19/09/2017 - BRE Innovation Park, AT Awards, Snowdon Aviary...
15/09/2017 - Bones and eggshells, Grenfell Inquiry, Stonehenge tunnel...
12/09/2017 - Richard Rogers' new book, Draft housing strategy for London...
08/09/2017 - Decarbonisation, carbuncle cup, largest sandcastle...
05/09/2017 - Open house, Queensferry crossing, work life balance...
01/09/2017 - Multi-property ownership, giving advice to friends, looping towers...
29/08/2017 - Demand revolution, cladding tests, workplace humidity...
25/08/2017 - NEC contracts, sustainability, Qatar stadium...
22/08/2017 - Smart cities, National park city, cladding tests...
18/08/2017 - Disputes, Brexit, affordable housing...
15/08/2017 - Concrete and fire, retrofit risks, Garden Bridge...
11/08/2017 - Tech disruption, Thames Tideway, E-procurement...
08/08/2017 - Will Self, energy-related retrofit, Circus Street...
4/8/2017 - Blockchain, 3D printing, temporary works, Headington Shark...
1/8/2017 - Warming houses using free CO2, 20 Fenchurch Street, 2 Willow Road...
28/7/2017 - Air filter standards, phenomenology, leasehold houses, Western City Gate...
25/7/2017 - Architecture of concert stages, new drone regulations, British Museum extension...
21/7/2017 - Understanding uncertainty, Farmer review response, Great Pyramid of Giza...
18/7/2017 - 6 buildings revolutionising construction, hydroinformatics, Binoculars Building...
14/7/2017 - Disruptive innovation, Eyeware app, asbestos, Salk Institute...
11/7/2017 - Jane Jacobs discussion, Battersea controversy, shotcrete, House Attack...
7/7/2017 - Nuclear Dawn mural, Raynsford Review, infrastructure gap, National Theatre...
4/7/2017 - Grenfell Tower updates, rebuilding communities, Haines Shoe House...
30/6/2017 - Best buildings in London, Grenfell advisory panel, risk, Library of Celsus...
27/6/2017 - Peter Barber interview, Celotex, protecting open space...
23/6/2017 - BIM and the future of construction, Ronan Point, Pyramid Stage...
20/6/2017 - Grenfell Tower disaster, ACM cladding, CityTrees, Teapot building...
16/6/2017 - The fight for talent, Lakanal House fire, urban design, Golden Temple...
13/6/2017 - Sharing economy, demolition, sustainable materials, Shah Cheragh...
9/6/2017 - Floor insulation, hostile architecture, BREEAM Finder, 10 Downing Street...
6/6/2017 - CIAT become sponsors, Norman Foster profile, legal indemnities, Container City
2/6/2017 - 2017 election manifestos, Re:Design Group, brownfield land, Bank of China Tower...
30/5/2017 - Peter Barber lecture, project alliancing, domestic roofs, Big Duck...
26/5/2017 - Interview with CITB, infrastructure and heritage, dementia-friendly home, Forbidden Palace...
23/5/2017 - Tom Dyckhoff interview, industrial archaeology, hunky punk, Apple Park...
19/5/2017 - Key future trends, fastest lifts, Paint by drone, Notre Dame du Haut...
16/5/2017 - Kevin McCloud interview, BRE on election, autonomous vehicles...
12/5/2017 - 5,000 articles, mixed reality, biophilic office, curtain walls, Trellick Tower...
9/5/2017 - Micro flats, self-build home, engineers and politics, Wedding Palace...
5/5/2017 - Shaping wellbeing, Grand Designs Live, ICE manifesto, Buckingham Palace...
2/5/2017 - Resilience to disasters, Budding Brunels, How Buildings Work, Gate to the East...
28/4/2017 - Delays, circular economy, inflatable concrete, Cologne Cathedral...
25/4/2017 - Disposable Houses, architectural concrete, tunnel engineering, La Grande Arche...
21/4/2017 - David Trench interview, CarTube, skills shortage and Brexit, Great Mosque of Djenne...
18/4/2017 - Garden Bridge, dynamic response to energy, K-Briq, Wonder Egg...
14/4/2017 - Reshaping Africa, leasing a property, Japanese House exhibition, Reichstag...
11/4/2017 - Interview with Simon Hesketh, cosmic insights, engineering resilience...
7/4/2017 - Megaprojects, Urbanist Architecture, 5th tallest building, British Museum...
4/4/2017 - Practical completion, microhousing, brownfield land, Panda House...
31/3/2017 - Industry reports, building services, site inspection, The Shard...
28/3/2017 - Imagine Moscow, systems thinking, infrastructure post-Brexit, Tempe building...
24/3/2017 - Unrealised buildings, placemaking, ethical labour, Dome of the Rock...
21/3/2017 - Mansion House Sq v No.1 Poultry, fabric structures, Gate of Europe...
17/3/2017 - Inclusivity in engineering, MIPIM 2017, temporary flood defences, EUIPO Building...
14/3/2017 - PFI and adjudication, value management techniques, Heddal stave church...
10/3/2017 - Spring budget, BREEAM Awards, concrete printing, Seagram Building...
7/3/2017 - Interview with Mark Farmer, NEC4, Manual of Section, The Hole House...
3/3/2017 - Value management, Trump Hotel Vancouver, Notre-Dame Cathedral...
28/2/2017 - Infrastructure and cyber attacks, Brexit topic guide, Cathedral of Brasilia...
24/2/2017 - CIC Economic & Policy Briefing, municipal energy, Angkor Wat...
21/2/2017 - Interview with Construction Youth Trust, structural engineering codes, Republic of Kugelmugel...
17/2/2017 - Surface Design Show, Stronger Together, bored piles, S.R. Guggenheim Museum...
14/2/2017 - Car sharing, project teams, great crested newts, Heart Island...
10/2/2017 - Management contracting, Sky Bridge, diversity and housing, Cheesegrater...
7/2/2017 - Housing white paper, flood resilient house, Brexit white paper, Olympic Stadium...
3/2/2017 - BIM archive, Danish Architecture Center, 3D printed bridge, Gateway Arch...
31/1/2017 - Thermal comfort, cost control, interior design...
27/1/2017 - Interview with UK-GBC, Biomimicry in Architecture, Pentagon...
24/1/2017 - Building Site to Boardroom, Hyperloop, Phoenix Center...
20/1/2017 - Architecture of Christiania, thermal comfort and wellbeing, St. Peter's Basilica...
13/1/2017 - Biophilic gyms, garden villages, nominated subcontractors...
10/1/2017 - Is print dead? Approved document R, the future of green infrastructure...
6/1/2017 - Interview with FMB, skills shortage, engineering in the 21st century...
3/1/2017 - Strangest designs of 2016, flying warehouses, ARB code of conduct...
Featured articles and news
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.