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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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Designing Buildings is a free, open access site. Anyone can create articles about subjects they know and anyone can find articles about subjects they don’t.
It is supported by ICE, CIOB, BSRIA, IHBC, CIAT and ECA.
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You can write about any subject related to the construction industry, including research, publications, organisations, theories, news, products and practices. All we ask is that articles are factual (not adverts) and are encyclopaedic in style (not blog posts).
Sharing your knowledge is great for the industry, and it is also a great for you. You can add your profile to articles you write, so when people read about your subject they also find out about you.
To create an article:
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- Click the orange ‘Create an article’ button.
- Enter the name of your article.
- Write your article.
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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:
We can create a microsite for you. It is a fast, low cost, low risk way to get a branded website that allows you to curate knowledge about your specialist subject.
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Try Designing Buildings Wiki Anywhere to look up any industry term direct from any website when you are using the Firefox browser.
Just highlight what you want to find out about on any website and a box will pop up telling you all about it.
More than 20,000 industry terms have been explained. If an explanation of the term you are looking for does not exist you will be asked if you want to create it.
Features and news
Heat pumps and many other related articles
In the context of the current wave towards this technology.
In its 44th year, the CIOB awards 2022; entries by May 31.
All categories open to members and non-members.
SOS Brutalism: a global survey
Is Brutalism fashionable again? Book review.
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Experiencing historic towns from the River Severn.
UK Construction week, 3-5 May.
A spotlight on net-zero strategies and much more.
Women's Engineering Society Annual conference.
Just one week to go to book your place !
Queens Award for Supply Chain Sustainability School.
Learn more, this 10th Anniversary enterprise award year.
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ICE Webinar and new April report released.
Design, manufacture and construction for operability.
A consolidated update to BS 8536 for 2022
MIT's second green future index
How has the global landscape changed ?
APM sponsor Designing Buildings
The Association for Project Management becomes our latest supporter.
Government and City dashboards in brief.
What are they and how are they used.
Refrigerants, heat pumps and climate commitments.
BESA and BSRIA new guide and webinar May 3.
Regeneration challenges for Portsmouth Harbour’s defence heritage. Book review.
A great survivor for 800 years.
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Historic England's practical guidance, April.
Free downloads on Energy Efficiency.
University College London, April 27–24 May.
Low carbon, intelligent and healthy, Free webinar series.
Invest in our planet.
World Creativity and Innovation Day.
Construction interview to train for unemployed.
Green Building Calculator, April 21.
V2 now available for download.
Scientists united, now our industry should too.
Construction Management, April 19.
Murphy to hire up to 175 Ukrainian refugees
Story behind the development game, Monopoly.
Sash window science and how they ventilate.
800-year-old Clifford Tower conserved and upgraded.
Hunting for Easter eggs in digital buildings.
Transparent Drawings: Visualizing Architecture Anew.
The carbon footprint of plate glass.
Futurebuild and the Edge, April 15.
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Big issues webinar series announced.
The Construction Index, April 13.
Inspections start across Scottish heritage sites
South East Consortium, April 5.
Sustainable homes matrix launched.
Traditional craft with robotic manufacturing.
Natural mineral shows energy storage potential.
Visualising the scale of the carbon removal.