Intelligence

The Design Quality Indicator for Health – improving design quality in healthcare buildings – has been updated, explains the Construction Industry Council’s DQI Manager, Makis Peppas.

Confidential Reporting of Structural Safety. Report 886: Unconservative design of flat slab.

Douglas Morrison’s role as Director of Operations and Skills at the Construction Scotland Innovation Centre shows the importance of education and innovation.

NatureScot notes that visits to urban greenspace soared during the Covid-19 pandemic, demonstrating the importance of green infrastructure for health and wellbeing

Gerard Toplass, Executive Chair of framework provider Pagabo, believes that procurement should have a gold standard.

Joe Cilia, Technical Director at FIS, discusses new guidance on firestopping that puts responsibility front and centre

Capita’s Patrick Cunningham FCABE discusses sanctions and risk in a new era for statutory control of buildings

Catriona Rowbotham Garden Design has a plan for landscaping CABE HQ that has an eye on the wider context of climate change

Confidential Reporting of Structural Safety. Report 979: Outdoor video screens.

Andrew Pearson explores the consultation response on Parts L and F of the Building Regulations

Could the creation of Covid-safe environments be creating a less inclusive environment, excluding some of the people it is supposed to protect?

An EY white paper by Eric Ottinger ACABE, Harshit Minglani, Mark Gibson and Amanda Alexander examines changing building practices

Ibrahim Imam, co-founder of PlanRadar, says the UK’s green recovery hinges on construction embracing technology.

David Millward, Group Product Manager at Elta Group, discusses how building engineers can help to restore trust in the ventilation systems of public buildings.

Corksol UK has a sustainable solution for tackling damp in commercial and residential buildings.

The global pandemic has exacerbated mental health issues. These won’t just go away on their own so CHAS and Benenden Health have some practical strategies to help

Who exactly are the building safety managers – the new professional role safeguarding HRRBs that has emerged from the plethora of reviews, working groups and consultations produced since the Grenfell tragedy? Elaine Knutt reports

Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety. Report 950: Inadequate punching shear reinforcement.

Stuart Fairlie MCABE believes the new energy standards are a jab in the arm for low-carbon living – and there’s no time like the present for getting ready

James Cash uses London as an exemplar to ask: what will be the pandemic’s legacy for the places in which we work, live and play?