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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
Government responds to the final Grenfell Inquiry report
A with a brief summary with reactions to their response.
A brief description and background to this new February law.
Everything you need to know about building conservation and the historic environment.
NFCC publishes Industry White Paper on Remediation
Calling for a coordinated approach and cross-departmental Construction Skills Strategy to manage workforce development.
'who blames whom and for what, and there are three reasons for doing that: legal , cultural and moral"
How the Home Energy Model will be different from SAP
Comparing different building energy models.
Mapping approaches for standardisation.
UK Construction contract spending up at the start of 2025
New construction orders increase by 69 percent on December.
Preparing for the future: how specifiers can lead the way
As the construction industry prepares for the updated home and building efficiency standards.
Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment
A practical guide for built environment professionals.
Updating the minimum energy efficiency standards
Background and key points to the current consultation.
Heritage building skills and live-site training.
Shortage of high-quality data threatening the AI boom
And other fundamental issues highlighted by the Open Data Institute.
Data centres top the list of growth opportunities
In robust, yet heterogenous world BACS market.
Increased funding for BSR announced
Within plans for next generation of new towns.
Around the web
RED Engineering Design - BSRIA Case Study.
Planning Portal confirms 2025/26 fee uplift.
Construction Management, 24 Feb
Social value requirement for public sector contracts comes into force.
Historic England launch new wellbeing and heritage strategy.
Health and safety responsibilities for grid-scale battery energy storage systems.
Shortlist of design teams for Queen Elizabeth memorial.
Siderise challenges Kensington and Chelsea building material exclusion in court.
Multiplex. A BSRIA Case Study.
Understanding the embodied carbon credentials of modern methods of construction.
Northern Ireland Architecture and the Built Environment Policy.
Incorrect asbestos data reinforces the need for robust information management.
Open consultation Copyright and AI.
Upcoming Webinars: Employment rights to Life Safety Transfer Switching.
Wood company fined more than £1million after two workers injured.
CIAT, CIEEM and others write letter to PM on value of nature.
Construction companies that couldn’t survive in 2025.
MHCLG updates NPPF wording on Green Belt development.
Response to plans to expand apprenticeships provision.
Grey belt won’t help Government reach housebuilding target.