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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
Delivering radical reform in the UK energy market
What are the benefits, barriers and underlying principles.
Information Management Initiative IMI
Building sector-transforming capabilities in emerging technologies.
Recent study of UK households reveals chilling home truths
Poor insulation, EPC knowledge and lack of understanding as to what retrofit might offer.
Embodied Carbon in the Built Environment
Overview, regulations, detail calculations and much more.
Why the construction sector must embrace workplace mental health support
Let’s talk; more importantly now, than ever.
Refurbishment for net zero; the BSRIA white paper
The everyday practice of tackling energy efficiency, fabric first, ventilation, air quality, and occupant wellbeing.
Sustainable construction design teams survey
Shaping the Future of Sustainable Design: Your Voice Matters.
Ensuring the trustworthiness of AI systems
A key growth area, including impacts for construction.
Foundations for the Future: A new model for social housing
To create a social housing pipeline, that reduces the need for continuous government funding.
Mutual Investment Models or MIMs
PPP or PFI, enhanced for public interest by the Welsh Government.
Stress Awareness Week ends but employer legal duties continue.
A call to follow the five Rs for the business and for the staff.
Key points and relevance to construction of meeting, due to reconvene.
Cladding remediation programmes, transparency and target date.
National Audit Office issue report on cladding remediation.
HBPT and BEAMS Jubilees. Book review.
Does the first Labour budget deliver for the built environment?
What does the UK Budget mean for electrical contractors?
Mixed response as business pays, are there silver linings?
Around the web
World Ventil8 Day. Maximising Effective Ventilation – Clean Air Must Be a Right, Not a Chance Encounter.
CLC statement on standard appointment terms.
Germany to relax regulatory standards to boost housing output.
Information Management Initiative: information management for all.
New Arches for HERs’ Demo site, from the Getty Conservation Institute via HE.
Innovate UK launches AI training programme for construction leaders.
NICEIC highlights industry opportunities during Green Careers Week.
National Churches Trust: The house of good & easing pressures on the NHS.
Construction Management, 4 Nov
Why construction should ditch its ‘take-make-waste’ approach.
Understanding the golden thread.
Skills card changes will mean fewer labourers.
Consultation on PAS 8700:2025 MMC for new build housing.
HE brief intro to the history of England’s Village Greens.
Construction Management, 31 Oct
The new BSA amendments construction should know about.
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.