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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
Considerate Constructors Scheme acquires Building A Safer Future
Acquisition defines a new era for safety in construction.
AT Awards evening 2024; the winners and finalists
Recognising professionals with outstanding achievements.
Reactions to the Autumn Budget announcement
And key elements of the quoted budget to rebuild Britain.
Chancellor of the Exchequer delivers Budget
Repairing, fixing, rebuilding, protecting and strengthening.
Expectation management in building design
Interest, management, occupant satisfaction and the performance gap.
Connecting conservation research and practice with IHBC
State of the art heritage research & practice and guidance.
Innovative Silica Safety Toolkit
Receives funding boost in memory of construction visionary.
Gentle density and the current context of planning changes
How should designers deliver it now as it appears in NPPF.
Sustainable Futures. Redefining Retrofit for Net Zero Living
More speakers confirmed for BSRIA Briefing 2024.
Making the most of urban land: Brownfield Passports
Policy paper in brief with industry responses welcomed.
The boundaries and networks of the Magonsæte.
London Build Fire and Security Expo
20-21 Nov and now with new Ambassador Programme..
The Scottish Building Safety Levy
Eight weeks of consultation closing on 18 November.
The grey, the brown and the golden rules of housing
shifting policies from the wild west of housing development.
Future proofing homes that are fit for purpose
Specification challenges and the role of plastic.
Thousands of new homes unlocked for brownfield sites
£68 million to 54 councils for neglected land into new homes.
Around the web
BSRIA Briefing, new speaker for 22 November event.
Fresh £450K fund for Union Street Aberdeen.
DEEP retrofit research project published.
In the Making: Resources to help engage with young people.
Integrating Feedback into Research and Practice.
Labour delivers first Autumn Budget, is construction being left behind?
Construction Management, 29 Oct
William Birch’s stately restoration.
Students design Jamie Oliver restaurant.
Construction Management, 28 Oct
‘Modern professionalism is central to changing construction culture’.
Launch of the Scottish Building Standards Hub.
New Homes in New Ways - Collaboration and Innovation through Modern Methods of Construction.
Free modern, Victorian and and mansion block retrofit Guides.
NHBC technical standards.
ISG suppliers facing initial £180m hit.
National Home Decarbonisation Group: Big Retrofit Challenge.
What happens when the BSR investigates an RBCA.
Peace and War: Educating for Conservation or for Reconstruction?