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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.
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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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
Last chance to register for UK construction week.
10 reasons to attend this 3 day event in London.
Types of roof on Designing Buildings.
Brookstone Perfect Drink App-Controlled Smart Bartending Cocktai
What's your type ?
BSRIA free online conference June 23.
Refurbishment for Net Zero – tackling the challenge
Creating resilient infrastructure.
6 principles to help engineers from the ICE.
ECA project 18 amendment 2, on the road again.
Find out more and book for the remaining two events.
About the Commonwealth Association of Architects.
Members, connected associations and ongoing activities.
CIOB Scholarship open until the end of May.
The construction innovation and quality scholarship.
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.
The age of the aquatic tourist
Experiencing historic towns from the River Severn.
A spotlight on net-zero strategies and much more.
CHI Steam 2in1 Steam Iron and Vertical Garment Steamer w/ Target
Just one week to go to book your place !
Queens Award for Supply Chain Sustainability School.
Learn more, this 10th Anniversary enterprise award year.
A systems approach to infrastructure delivery (SAID) Part 2
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.
7M Painting Washi Paper Tape DIY scrapbooking Diary masking tape
BESA and BSRIA new guide and webinar May 3.
Around the web
Practice Action Masterclasses, online.
Architects Declare and ACAN partner with RIBA.
CIB Vistas online Open Forum, May 3 and 4.
Followed by vista ideas submissions by May 6.
4% energy increase for perovskite tandem cells
New register of construction product specialists.
⭐White Mountain The 1980’s 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle #868S 24" X.
The upcoming UK boiler upgrade scheme.
Milwaukee 48-22-3990 100' Fine Line Chalk Reel (Fine Line)
Diversity, equity and inclusion in construction.
The commonwealth respond to urbanisation.
Construction Management, April 23.
A 1/4 of the industry ready for the Building Safety Bill ?
Actor and Architect create circularity fund.
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.