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Designing Buildings includes 6 microsites - mini wikis about specialist subjects. Created with our partners, they provide easy access to curated knowledge about particular aspects of the built environment:
Features and news
TESP video warns to beware of rogue trainers.
Highlighting the slippery tactics of non-approved providers.
New Building Safety Wiki launched
Boosting awareness and understanding of the new fire safety regime.
New playbook on AI in construction published by CIOB
How to get to grips with, and the best from AI.
Digital Construction Report NBS
BIM, cloud, off-site, immersive tech, AI, twins and sustaiability.
ECA learning zone and industry focus video series
From updates and amendments to circular economy, emergency lighting and much more.
The Building People Communities Network
Celebrating and amplifying voices of the under-represented, this refugee week and pride month.
Pride of Place: queer heritage
Acknowledging and taking pride in LGBTQ histories.
A reminder of the five basic styles that determine columns.
For great monuments to exist there have to be concentrations of power. Book review.
Continuous Quality Clues: A New Approach to Quality Control
'Trust the coincidences...the bond between the possible and the inevitable.”
The National Retrofit Hub Co-Creators Initiative
Volunteer for a meaningful impact on decarbonising the UK.
Co-creation and the built environment
From collaboration to co-creation, origins of these key tools.
Defective Premises Bill in Northern Ireland
CIAT opposes accelerated passage of Bill retrospectively extending liability.
Principal Contractor Competency Certification Scheme
Proving competency as a principal contractor with CIOB.
Around the web
Care and housing giant digitalises property operations.
How to Design Resilient Residential Buildings, webinar.
Construction Management, June 21
Only a quarter of buildings with dangerous cladding remediated.
Innovate UK Digital Catapult, April 23
Everything you need to know about immersive technology.
Construction Management, June 19
Green-collar salaries soar, but lack of talent threatens net zero.
The CIAT inaugural Climate Society meeting.
Does AI kill standards?
Construction Management, June 20
Five health and safety priorities for the next government.
Architecture LGBT+ London Pride, June 29
Architecture LGBT+ London Pride Celebrations.
A home away from home.
CIAT Honorary Officer Hustings 2024, online.
Construction management, June 20
Supermarket giant builds digital twin to decarbonise production facility.
Indoor air quality.
2024 virtual school market place for learning opportunities.