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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
Stress Awareness Day and legal duties for employers
Calling employers to follow the five Rs this week.
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?
A brownfield housing boost for Liverpool
A 56 million investment from Homes England now approved.
Fostering a future-ready workforce through collaboration
Collaborative Futures: Competence, Capability and Capacity, published and available for download.
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.
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.
Around the web
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.
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.