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Case study: Sunderland City Hall by FaulknerBrowns Architects

Case study: Spruce House and Studio by ao-ft

Case study: Tennyson Road by ROAR Architects

Case study: University of York Student Residences by Sheppard Robson

Case study: Riverview House by Mole Architects

Case study: Kingsfield Pond by Jonathan Hendry Architects

Case study: Highgate House by Beasley Dickson Architects

Case study: 11 & 12 Wellington Place, Leeds, by tp bennett

Case study: Towner Gallery by Manalo & White Architects

Case study: Benenden School Music School and Hall by Hollaway Studio

Costs: Roofing & drainage

The Regs: Are you up to speed with the Building Safety Act? Part 3

The Regs: Are you up to speed with the Building Safety Act? Part 2

The Regs: Are you up to speed with the Building Safety Act? Part 1

The Regs: All change! Projects must have a ‘duty holder’ from 1 October

The Regs: How will the UK meet climate-change targets set out in Paris Accords?

The regs: A testing time for fire doors lies ahead

The Regs: Designing autistic friendly workplaces

The Regs: How to design movement joints in masonry

The regs: Grand Designs house turned upside down for fire safety compliance

The Regs: External escape stairs call for fire-resistant façades

The Regs: Take a good look at the drains before progressing with detailed designs

The Regs: Far-reaching changes on fire safety are coming into effect

In practice: Meeting the new biodiversity net gain obligations

In practice: Gort Scott on retrofitting historic buildings at 3 Mills Studio

Why we specified cut limestone bricks instead of clay at Mayfield School

In practice: Studio Weave’s pink-concrete house in South Korea

‘Over 90% of concrete used in construction could be replaced with timber’

Amin Taha: Switch to stone and timber to make construction planet-friendly

In practice: Waste not, want not – designing for Gail’s bakeries

In practice: Save steel, save embodied carbon

In practice: Baca Architects’ prefabricated holiday pods

In practice: Decarbonising social housing – what we have learnt at URBED

In practice: How Carmody Groarke developed a low-carbon brick

In practice: Jonathan Burlow on his cantilevered house projects

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