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Designing Buildings is the construction wiki. An industry-wide, cross-discipline forum for finding and sharing knowledge about the planning, design, construction and operation of built assets.
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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
The architecture of creative reuse. Book review.
Installing solar panels on listed structures.
Mike Kagioglou FCIOB named CIOB President
'Sustainable Development Goals must be focus for construction'
BSRIA training; a look at what's on offfer
From energy management to compliance training.
TESP video warns to beware of rogue trainers.
Highlighting the slippery tactics of non-approved providers.
New Building Safety Wiki launched
Boosting awareness and understanding of the new fire safety regime.
New playbook on AI in construction published by CIOB
How to get to grips with, and the best from AI.
Digital Construction Report NBS
BIM, cloud, off-site, immersive tech, AI, twins and sustainability.
ECA learning zone and industry focus video series
From updates and amendments to circular economy, emergency lighting and much more.
The Building People Communities Network
Celebrating and amplifying voices of the under-represented, this refugee week and pride month.
Pride of Place: queer heritage
Acknowledging and taking pride in LGBTQ histories.
A reminder of the five basic styles that determine columns.
For great monuments to exist there have to be concentrations of power. Book review.
Continuous Quality Clues: A New Approach to Quality Control
'Trust the coincidences...the bond between the possible and the inevitable.”
Around the web
Building costs forecast to continue rising.
Retrofit Delivery: State of the Nation Review.
Man spared jail for carrying out unsafe work on own home.
Raising a toast to the worst new building in Britain.
The status of emergency works on listed buildings and more.
From energy management to compliance training.
Care and housing giant digitalises property operations.
How to Design Resilient Residential Buildings, webinar.
Construction Management, June 21
Only a quarter of buildings with dangerous cladding remediated.
Innovate UK Digital Catapult, April 23
Everything you need to know about immersive technology.
Construction Management, June 19
Green-collar salaries soar, but lack of talent threatens net zero.
Welsh Government recognises wide ranging scope of electrical work.
The CIAT inaugural Climate Society meeting.
Does AI kill standards?
Construction Management, June 20
Five health and safety priorities for the next government.