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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
At a Crossroads; Pathways to a Net Zero Future
Background to and summary of this key Renewable UK report.
Installing solar panels on listed structures.
The current and future global market dynamics of boilers
Significant challenges but adaptation to sustain for longer.
Designing sustainability and performance into buildings
Specifying and selecting sustainable resilient timber products.
Modifying wood to improve resistance to decay and movement.
A last minute, long look for built environment professionals.
The architecture of creative reuse. Book review.
Sustainable development global goals, history in progress?
"Unless we act now, the 2030 Agenda will become an epitaph for a world that might have been."
Mike Kagioglou FCIOB named CIOB President
'Sustainable Development Goals must be focus for construction'
BSRIA training; a look at what's on offer
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.
Around the web
AJ Retrofit 2024, September 11
Awards and conference in collaboration with Circular Build.
BSRIA Briefing 2024 - Sustainable Futures: Redefining Retrofit for Net Zero Living.
Associate member wins Rising Star of the Year at Digital Construction Awards.
How private medical insurance benefits electrical Contractors.
Construction Management, July 2
SMEs need to be winners in the election
Council & Crown seek urban designers’ proposals for ‘transformational’ work.
Digital Construction Awards ceremony 2024
Construction Management, July 1
The UN SDGs and their relevance to construction.
10 goals to help harbours and ports survive and thrive.
SDG Tracker: Measuring progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
Care and housing giant digitalises property operations.