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Information - BuildingCPD 07 2025: Mastering sliding and bi-fold doors
Sliding doors date back over a thousand years to Japan, where shoji – paper-covered wooden frames – offered space-saving elegance in homes and temples. Even earlier, grooves in Pompeii’s stone floors suggest the Romans used sliding doors to enhance spatial flexibility.
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Information - BuildingCosting Steelwork 32: Market update and guidance on specialist contracts
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: June 2025
Mastering the art: The National Gallery reworks a postmodern icon
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Information - BuildingCPD 06 2025: How glass mineral wool insulation supports net zero building design
The built environment is facing a defining challenge. As of 2021, buildings and construction activities accounted for approximately 42% of annual global CO₂ emissions, underscoring the industry’s significant share of the climate crisis. In the UK alone, construction processes were responsible for over 10 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions ...
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Information - BuildingCPD 05 2025: Enhancing thermal performance
Despite decades of innovation in building materials, energy modelling and regulations, one stubborn truth remains: too many buildings still underperform. The design promises one level of energy efficiency – on paper – but the built reality often tells another story. This so-called performance gap is not just a technical oversight; ...
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: May 2025
The waiting game: Skanska UK boss Katy Dowding on building in a time of uncertainty
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: April 2025
On time, on budget: Spectacular new Everton stadium serves as a lesson for football clubs everywhere
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Information - BuildingCPD 04 2025: Energy performance evaluation in architectural projects
Understanding and improving a building’s energy performance is critical in addressing the climate emergency. This module, sponsored by Vectorworks, explores how architects can integrate early-stage performance modelling into their workflow to create more sustainable, energy-efficient designs.
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Information - BuildingCPD 03 2025: Segmental retaining walls for housing developments
Sponsored by Tobermore, this module explores the design considerations, applications and benefits of specifying segmental retaining walls in residential developments. Covering key aspects from initial planning through to construction, it highlights how solutions can address site-specific requirements.
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: March 2025
The beat goes on The creative hub inspiring Wakefield’s urban regeneration
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Information - BuildingCosting Steelwork 31: Market update and guidance on Eurocode updates
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Information - BuildingConnected Places Summit 2025
The summit brings together the built environment to drive forward innovation and growth. Find out more and secure your place here.
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Information - BuildingCPD 02 2025: Hard landscaping specification for housing developments
Sponsored by Tobermore, this module explores permeable paving as part of a sustainable drainage system solution for housing developments, highlighting the benefits and challenges, alongside best practice guidance for design, construction and maintenance.
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: February 2025
Solving the skills crisis We all know the problem, but who has the answers?
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: January 2025
Have they cracked it yet? The government is counting on a major shake-up of the planning system to hit its target of 1.5 million new homes
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Information - BuildingCPD 01 2025: Understanding the regulatory requirements for modern ventilation systems
Learn how to meet ventilation compliance standards while ensuring air quality and energy efficiency in modern homes. Sponsored by Xpelair by Dimplex, this module outlines the key ventilation requirements and explores the role of MVHR in meeting modern standards.
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Information - BuildingCosting Steelwork 30: Market update and guidance on demonstrating competency
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Information - BuildingCPD 20 2024: Steel structures for fire performance
Sponsored by the British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA), this module covers critical insights into fire-resilient design strategies, material selection, and industry standards to enhance safety and compliance in steel construction.
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Information - BuildingBuilding Digital Edition: December 2024
Top 150 Housebuilders & Contractors: Find out who’s made it into our annual ranking of top firms and read the data breakdown of market trends
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Information - BuildingCPD 19 2024: Specifying glass in rooflights
Sponsored by Glazing Vision, this module will explore the relevant industry guidance and technical considerations when specifying glass in rooflights, guiding professionals through the design, manufacturing and construction process.