Three Stelrad CPDs available

Start the New Year with one of three upgraded CPD training sessions led by a Stelrad expert. Each one-hour training session counts towards your annual CPD requirement and can be arranged for you on a one-to-one or group basis at... View Article

Book Your RIBA CPD: Rooflights That Transform Spaces

Discover the LAMILUX RIBA-certified CPD, Brighter Better Places with Rooflights, and secure your 2026 session before availability fills. Creating bright, uplifting, and high-performing spaces begins with intelligent daylighting. The LAMILUX RIBA-approved CPD, Brighter Better Places with Rooflights, helps architects and specifiers deepen their... View Article

A flexible future for BNG compliance

Katy Davis at Carter Jonas (London) argues that, a year after biodiversity net gain became mandatory, flexibility is essential to ensure onsite ambition aligns with offsite realities and genuine ecological outcomes. A year after the introduction of mandatory biodiversity net gain... View Article

Building ‘beyond zero’

Rob East of Newland Homes, explains how the Gloucestershire housebuilder took a “conviction-based” decision to redefine its design approach beyond the norm to provide climate-resilient, and even carbon-negative homes. It was our development director, Jeremy Drew, who first raised the... View Article

Suffragette City

A development onsite in London’s Tower Hamlets creates a new neighbourhood on where Suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst first proposed improvements to conditions in the East End, over a century ago. Roseanne Field reports. In Bromley-By-Bow in the London Borough of Tower... View Article

Designer Contracts names new financial director

Designer Contracts has announced the appointment of a new financial director, along with six further promotions and new joins.  Mark Williams joins the company as its new FD after working as the financial lead across a range of companies for... View Article

SterlingOSB Zero is a picnic for architects

As the annual SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition celebrated its 10th anniversary, the 2025 competition entitled Powers of Ten, challenged architects to explore the principles of scale. Entrants were unrestricted by building standards and were free to play with the concept of scale and... View Article

Hard landscaping made easy with Create & Construct

Designing, specifying and constructing hard landscaping schemes for housing developments can be complex. With this in mind, Tobermore has launched Create & Construct, the most comprehensive housebuilder support hub on the market. Here, Krisa Montgomery, Housebuilding Team Leader at Tobermore,... View Article

Kerakoll publishes its 2024 Sustainability Report

The Group invested in projects involving the environment and the community in 2024, with a focus on technologies with a positive impact, the circular economy, and solutions that respect the local area across the world. Being a business today means... View Article

Engineered wood: The environmental and economic benefits

David Connacher, Marketing Manager of West Fraser, discusses the benefits of engineered wood panels It is well accepted that the use of timber panel products began a century back when plywood was first manufactured in quantity. Aeons beforehand, the Egyptians... View Article