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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
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.
EBSSA support for the new industry competence structure
The Engineering and Building Services Skills Authority, in working group 2.
Notes from BSRIA Sustainable Futures briefing
From carbon down to the all important customer: Redefining Retrofit for Net Zero Living.
Principal Designer: A New Opportunity for Architects
ACA launches a Principal Designer Register for architects.
Around the web
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.
Shaping industry culture – workshop opportunity.
Wales Consults on Planning Fees: Closing 16 January 2025.
Construction Management, 9 Dec
Legal developments construction should look out for in 2025.