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FeaturesReinvention 2026: can built environment education keep up with a changing industry?
Is it time to rethink built environment training? How might a more accessible, collaborative and work-based model look?
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SponsoredThe skills challenge isn’t about attraction but absorption
Many of those who train to join the AEC industry in professional and technical roles fail to find jobs. The Construction Skills Mission Board, supported by the Built Environment Futures Assembly, is spearheading efforts to improve this. By Andrew Mylius
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SponsoredWhen your ideas move fast, your technology needs to keep up
CAD, BIM, 3D modelling, rendering, collaboration platforms, video calls and client presentations – when so much work today runs through one device, business leaders can underestimate the drag on their team caused by tech that can’t keep pace. Choosing the right laptops can free up your team to do their ...
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In partnershipBuilt Environment Systems Review sets out to transform industry performance
A government-backed review will examine how systems thinking can unlock productivity
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SponsoredA day in the life of a T Level student: how early industry exposure is shaping the next generation of construction talent
Eighteen-year-old Kallam Gill is part of a growing cohort of young people entering construction earlier and with a clearer sense of direction than many before them.
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NewsCloser collaboration needed to drive innovation take-up, industry told ahead of Connected Places Summit 2026
Connected Places Catapult built environment director says: ‘We don’t have an innovation problem. We have a scaling and adoption problem’
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SponsoredPaper contracts in a digital industry: the risk hiding in plain sight
Construction has embraced digital transformation at almost every level - except the contracts. Rekha Thawrani OBE, Global Director of NEC Contracts, argues that this gap between ambition and practice is where commercial risk accumulates, and explains what the industry can do about it.
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SponsoredRegenerative development: what does it mean, what does it take – and is it a better goal than net zero?
Does the sector needs a broader ambition – one capable of holding together climate action, resilience, wellbeing, biodiversity and long-term economic value?
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SponsoredFrom ambition to action: how can Wales build the homes it needs?
Wales’ push for affordable, low carbon homes risks stalling unless policy, funding, infrastructure and skills are better co-ordinated, our panellists warn
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SponsoredReinvention 2026: a new built environment education model for a changing world
Ryder Architecture and its partners Northumbria University and the University of the Built Environment are calling for a radical rethink of built environment education. This builds on the proven success of pioneering higher and degree apprenticeships such as PlanBEE, by widening opportunity and providing the right skills for the future ...
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FeaturesHow to make change stick in construction
At a recent roundtable, senior industry figures discussed why change fails to stick, the cultural barriers, and how to turn pilots into lasting progress
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SponsoredFrom sustainability to regenerative design: how SJ Group is reimagining the future of cities
SJ Group CEO Sean Chiao explains why regenerative design and AI are redefining how cities are planned, built and operated — and how the built environment can deliver lasting value for people and the planet
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FeaturesBuilding Systems Thinking: Crunch time
The deteriorating condition and performance of existing infrastructure is a looming threat to UK economic and social progress. The government and industry need to get serious about asset management, and fast.
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FeaturesCosting Steelwork 34: Market update and and structural steel coatings guidance
A market update from Aecom, BCSA and Steel for Life
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FeaturesFire dampers and firewalls: achieving true compliance
A recent roundtable, hosted in partnership with Siniat, tackled the complexities of fire damper specifying – and explored how fire protection specifying needs to change in the light of the Building Safety Act. Mary Richardson reports
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FeaturesBuilding better new towns: how to turn a bold housing vision into lasting, liveable communities
A recent roundtable, hosted in partnership with Ridge, explored the delivery challenges presented by the government’s new towns programme. Mary Richardson reports
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SponsoredHow do we integrate sustainability into the built environment and make it pay?
Industry leaders gathered during Climate Week NYC to debate how construction can deliver environmental resilience while maintaining commercial viability, with risk emerging as the new language of sustainability
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FeaturesWho won this year’s Building Quiz?
Seven teams vied for the construction industry’s most coveted prize at the annual showdown at Fieldfisher’s City of London office - but who came out on top?
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FeaturesKey requirements explored for Built Environment Systems Review as infrastructure pipeline demands new approach
A roundtable discussion has explored key requirements for the Built Environment Systems Review, which will establish performance baselines and recommend practical steps for industry change to tackle net zero, resilience and productivity challenges across the UK’s £540bn infrastructure pipeline