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Designing Buildings is the construction wiki. The only industry-wide, cross-discipline forum for finding and sharing knowledge about the planning, design, construction and operation of built assets.
It is the most popular construction industry website in the UK.
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It is supported by ICE, CIOB, BSRIA, IHBC, CIAT and ECA.
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Features and news
APM report explores existing practice.
Previous reflections on mental health with CIAT.
COVID-19 and the importance of mental wellbeing.
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Speedo Fastskin Hyper Elite Mirror Swimming Goggles, Black/Silve
As Professionally Qualified Person (PQP).
The Queens speech; bill by bill for 2022.
In order of relevance and with industry responses.
Mental Health awareness week, May 9-15.
Raising awareness of the impacts of loneliness.
Rapidly renewable materials and construction.
The list is growing, and in more ways than one.
Personal experiences of infrastructure maintenance issues.
We shouldn’t build new, If we can’t maintain what's built.
Mass timber: challenges and potential solutions.
Timber Accelerator Hub phase 1 report
CIOB Safer Buildings UK conference. May 26.
Find out more and book your place today.
Delisting a world heritage site
What was Unesco up to in Liverpool?
Repairing a symbol of the industrial revolution.
Cooling in the context of extreme summer temperatures.
BSRIA on air conditioning inflation and supply chain crisis.
ICE react to gender stereotyping.
From the chair of UK gov's commission on social mobility.
Specifying Concrete with The Concrete Centre.
Kegco YH-FS2S Infinity Series Stainless Steel European Beer Fauc
5 types of concrete specification.
ECA calls for stronger competency requirements.
In relation to the in Building Safety Act 2022.
JCB drivers vote for strike action.
96 per cent in favour of industrial action.
Around the web
Two thirds of motorists want to switch to EV.
£1.1m a year saved by breaking data sharing taboo.
Architecture 2030 -CARE Tool, May 12.
Carbon Avoided Retrofit Estimator (CARE) Tool
Construction Enquirer, May 11.
HS2 project bank accounts fail to protect subcontractors.
Rechargeable salt battery freezes energy.
Reasons girls don’t study physics.. don’t include not liking maths.
Large scale carbon capture without the tech.
Construction Management, May 10.
Council fined after construction workers develop HAVS.
Europe's largest floating solar park.
Net Zero Live Webinar, May 12.
Whole life / embodied carbon, material specification and infrastructure.
Recovery slows as storm clouds gather...
NREL- Transforming Energy, April 28.
Lost value of landfilled plastic In U.S.A.
The Journal of the AIA, April 27.
Rethinking Architectural History.
Ty Classic Crockett the Brown Teddy Bear 2003 plush(310-1814)
Retrofitting for Resilience.
The poor bear the brunt of heatwave.
Separating Green From Greenwash: Part 1.
Barratt brings forward pay rises to ease cost of living.
Celebrating outstanding British and international creativity.