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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
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.
Architects Academy at an insulation manufacturing facility
Programme of technical engagement for aspiring designers.
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.
The restoration of the novelist’s birthplace in Eastwood.
Life Critical Fire Safety External Wall System LCFS EWS
Breaking down what is meant by this now often used term.
PAC report on the Remediation of Dangerous Cladding
Recommendations on workforce, transparency, support, insurance, funding, fraud and mismanagement.
New towns, expanded settlements and housing delivery
Modular inquiry asks if new towns and expanded settlements are an effective means of delivering housing.
Around the web
The Importance of Digital Twins for Maximo and Asset Management.
Building Performance Network summer symposium event.
Air conditioner & heat pump testing.
Awe-inspiring project to restore historic West Highland Line viaduct completed.
NICEIC launches training online shop.
Aecom turns to Nodes & Links for AI-powered project controls.
Construction Mangement, 31 March
‘The supply chain for smart buildings will look very different’.
Office for Budget Responsibility, March
You Tube of 5 things you should know about the OBR forecast.
Concerns voiced over the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.
Mock-up testing.
ECA Industry Awards 2025 has launched.
CDEs for city-level digital twins: what’s needed?
Construction Management, 25 March
Slow apprenticeship levels may threaten Labour’s growth agenda.
Co-ordinate Built Environment Research for the Public Good.
Heritage in Transition: Skills and Approaches for Sustainability.
Construction Management, 24 March
Building Safety Levy pushed back to autumn 2026.
The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects.
Measuring Mass Timber: A mass timber whole life carbon and quality of life method.
Market Intelligence - Global HVAC and BACS markets webinar.
Registration open for DCW 2025.
Action taken to protect households with poor-quality insulation installed under ECO4 and GBIS schemes.