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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
Free topic guide on mould in buildings
The new TG 26/2024 published by BSRIA.
Greater control for LAs over private rental selective licensing
A brief explanation of changes with the NRLA response.
Practice costs for architectural technologists
Salary standards and working out what you’re worth.
The Health and Safety Executive at 50
And over 200 years of Operational Safety and Health.
Thermal imaging surveys a brief intro
Thermal Imaging of Buildings; a pocket guide BG 72/2017.
Internally insulating a historical building
An experimental DIY approach using mineral thermal lime plaster.
Tree species selection for green infrastructure: A guide for specifiers.
50 million new trees over 25 years.
Art of Building CIOB photographic competition public vote
The last week to vote for a winner until 10 January 2025.
The future of the Grenfell Tower site
Principles, promises, recommendations and a decision expected in February 2025.
20 years of the Chartered Environmentalist
If not now, when?
Journeys in Industrious England
Thomas Baskerville’s expeditions in the 1600s.
Top 25 Building Safety Wiki articles of 2024
Take a look what most people have been reading about.
Life and death at Highgate Cemetery
Balancing burials and tourism.
The 25 most read articles on DB for 2024
Design portion to procurement route and all between.
The act of preservation may sometimes be futile.
Twas the site before Christmas...
A rhyme for the industry and a thankyou to our supporters.
Plumbing and heating systems in schools
New apprentice pay rates coming into effect in the new year
Addressing the impact of recent national minimum wage changes.
Around the web
Catch-up on the CIOB 21st Century Construction podcast.
ECA You Tube Channel catch up
Catch-up on the CIAT podcast here.
Information management: it’s time to focus on first principles.
200 year History of Occupational Safety and Health.
AWARDS! 2024 Video Challenge.
National Accident Prevention Strategy campaign update.
Construction Management, 6 Jan
Heed the wake-up call, industry reacts to Hackitt building safety warning.
Worker killed by falling glass panel in West Kowloon.
SAHGB-IHBC Research Award winners double up.
Stockholm Resilience Centre, 20 Dec
New study: Plastic pollution worsens the impacts of all planetary boundaries.
The National Retrofit Hub- Knowledge Hub.
Construction Management, 20 Dec
The top 10 stories of 2024.
Five things to watch for in 2025.
Construction Management, 19 Dec
McAlpine under fire after Storm Darragh damages hotel cladding panels.
Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release - Nov 2024
Probe into possible bid-rigging relating to school improvement fund.
ECA joins calls for changes to Business Property Relief.
Construction Management, 16 Dec
How to manage delays in the building safety Gateways process.
New year resolutions to strengthen team and business.
Open consultation: Reforms to the Energy Performance of Buildings regime.
Exploring urban and council housing revisited, DH Lawrence, prefabs and gentrification.