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29/12/2020 - EU trade deal, resilience, top 10 2020.
22/12/202 - Weird words, cosmati, sewerage lego.
18/12/2020 - Fire research, satellites, hosepipe bans.
15/12/2020 - Hull, traditional roofing, reshaping BREEAM.
11/12/2020 - Treasure, knowledge webinar, green standards.
8/12/2020 - Mausoleums, speculative architecture, food markets.
4/12/2020 - ATAwards, defects in stonework, air rights.
1/12/2020 - Cave homes, 2020 trends, bamboo flooring.
27/11/2020 - Infrastructure strategy, Picturesque movement, riser design.
24/11/2020 - ESW1 forms, foundations, negotiating listed building consent.
20/11/2020 - Fire standard, Brasilia Syndrome, glass bottle floors.
17/11/2020 - Net zero, historic mortar, follies.
13/11/2020 - Hydrogen, Regency style, the supply chain.
10/11/2020 - Indoor air quality, brick bonding, types of land.
7/11/2020 - Cooth, cpd for architects, unusual buildings.
3/11/2020 - Bungaroosh, indoor air quality, conservation staffing.
30/10/2020 - A new Bauhaus, build back better, the decade of heat pumps.
27/10/2020 - Temporary works, white elephants, the future of planning.
23/10/2020 - The architect of Hollywood, checking certification, green recovery.
20/10/2020 - Council housing, heritage at risk, post COVID transport.
16/10/2020 - Heroic architecture, rising damp, carbon reduction.
13/10/2020 - Carlisle Cathedral, digital restoration, social impact.
9/10/2020 - Carbon sequestration, contested heritage, asbestos.
6/10/2020 - Witch windows, transparent infrastructure, heritage at war.
2/10/2020 - Public sector decarbonisation, COVID and HVAC, structural glazing systems.
29/9/2020 - Heritage and fire, codename SERENE, canals.
25/9/2020 - Beauty taskforce, BIM for knowledge, offsite manufacturing.
22/9/2020 - Inspection plans, condensation, aqueducts.
18/9/2020 - Working from home, anchorholds, eyecatchers.
15/9/2020 - Ponds, coastal erosion, rapid engineering model.
11/9/2020 - The Chalk aquifer, handover, wallcoverings.
8/9/2020 - Contech, knapped flint, rationalism.
4/9/2020 - U-values, People Wiki, low carbon concrete plan.
1/9/2020 - Steel lintels, manor house restoration, reed thatching.
28/8/2020 - Construction knowledge standard, aqueducts, carbon monoxide.
25/8/2020 - Isokon flats, Herbert Rowse, ALT. MCR Pride.
21/8/2020 - Quality checklist, exurbia, drains maintenance.
18/8/2020 - Infrastructure white paper, quality control, Hamilton monument.
14/8/2020 - CEO COVID survey, pocket doors, landscape maintenance.
11/8/2020 - Birkenhead, Charles Eamer Kempe, WaaS.
7/8/2020 - Planning for the future, upcycling buildings, sneck.
4/8/2020 - Conserving Burns Monument, modern architecture, Building Regs Manual.
31/7/2020 - People Wiki launched, cork house, inspiring civil engineering.
28/7/2020 - Carbon lifecycle, curated decay, air change rates.
24/7/2020 - Apprenticeships, skills for climate change, mundic.
21/7/2020 - Measuring damp, value toolkit, why quality matters.
17/7/2020 - Immigration, click lock flooring, maintenance.
14/7/2020 - Heritage protection, generation nuclear, Levittown.
10/7/2020 - Cycle lanes, safe water, open asset data.
7/7/2020 - Cholera, walled gardens, King's Cross Station.
3/7/2020 - Article 10,000 - An interoperable construction industry.
3/7/2020 - Civility in civil engineering, post COVID recovery, stained glass windows.
30/6/2020 - Chesapeake Bay Brunnel, bird management, post COVID acoustics.
26/6/2020 - Dame Caroline Haslett, Build Back Green, laminate flooring.
23/6/2020 - Coronavirus recovery plan, 20 years of ACOs, Internet of Things.
19/6/2020 - Bird strikes, a traceability framework, coronavirus marshals.
16/6/2020 - Electrical regulations, Gothic revival, overheating homes.
12/6/2020 - Diversity, cork, the aesthetic movement.
9/6/2030 - The Winchester House, integrated rail, restore or repair?
5/6/2020 - Infrastructure for growth, scour, solid wall insulation.
2/6/2020 - Maunsell Forts, the office of the future, British Embassies.
29/5/2020 - Cobotics, tempered heating, mental health.
26/5/2020 - Future weather files, cabmen shelters, home for ageing.
22/5/2020 - Historic comfort, colour rendering, building services failures.
19/5/2020 - BEST showrooms, digital skills, Making Dystopia.
15/5/2020 - Dwarf galleries, heat pumps, Walt Disney Concert Hall.
12/5/2020 - Funding net zero, Lewes neighbourhood plan, steel windows.
8/5/2020 - Tokyo, IR35, Roman classical orders.
5/5/2020 - ING building, Bauhaus, Freddie Charles.
1/5/2020 - Infrastructure failures, boilers market, design risk management.
28/4/2020 - EN 17037, Milton Keynes, Lucy the Elephant.
24/4/2020 - Fall protection, the Oxford Movement, insourcing.
23/4/2020 - Designing Buildings Anywhere.
21/4/2020 - Digital transformation, Chinese brutalism, Harlow new town.
17/4/2020 - Resilient cities, parking in conservation areas, flying buttress.
14/4/2020 - Climate change, new towns, Lambeth architecture.
10/4/2020 - Creating better cities, Architecture for London, suspension of works.
7/4/2020 - Breach of contract, new towns heritage, government consultations.
3/4/2020 - Air rights, mandatory sprinklers, the real cost of BREEAM.
31/3/2020 - Planning reform, French new towns. log cabins.
27/3/2020 - Conservation areas, Chapel of the Holy Cross, BACS, trees and drought.
24/3/2020 - Fire safety bill, urgent action water, isolation rooms.
20/3/2020 - Northern powerhouse rail, get Britain building, development appraisal.
17/3/2020 - Digital twins, Carillion, post-war Germany.
13/3/2020 - Carbon capture, budget 2020, BIM for energy efficiency.
10/3/2020 - Brutalism, maintenance, boom cities, war memorials.
6/3/2020 - Circadian rhythms, electric heating, procurement routes.
3/3/2020 - NIC monitoring report, sustainable development goals, off-site goods.
28/2/2020 - Coronavirus, budget 2020, the Pentagon.
25/2/2020 - Infrastructure revolution, Albert Dock, The real face of construction.
21/2/2020 - Working at height, adverse weather, immigration.
18/2/2020 - Artificial intelligence, indoor air quality, conserving landscape structures.
14/2/2020 - Dual purpose reservoirs, air quality, HS2, classical orders.
11/2/2020 - Heritage beneath the waves, new tenements, quality management systems.
7/2/2020 - Climate emergency, aesthetic performance, construction waste.
4/2/2020 - Broadband, steeplejacks, geodesic domes.
31/1/2020 - Servitisation, climate emergency, Beeching cuts.
27/1/2020 - HS2, BUS benchmarking, blitz and blight.
24/1/2020 - Transport insights, late payment effects, the cost of quality.
21/1/2020 - Bletchley Park, Seashaken houses, Hagia Sophia.
17/1/2020 - Fire modelling, Big Ben, sinkholes megacities.
14/1/2020 - SF6, war memorials, black water.
10/1/2020 - We're hiring, ethics, Notre Dame, IoT.
7/1/2020 - Royal Ordnance Factories, Meccano, thermal radiation.
3/1/2020 - Renewable energy, roofing defects, beacon of light.
Featured articles and news
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.