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RICS has published Code of Conduct Rule 4 guidance for professionals in a bid to boost diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the surveying profession.

BSR has published further information for Accountable Persons/Principal Accountable Persons in England on what they must do to comply with S.89 of the Building Safety Act 2022 and how to apply for a Building Assessment Certificate (BAC). This includes what information they need to submit: the resident engagement strategy, information about the mandatory occurrence reporting system and the safety case report.

The Construction Industry Training Board’s Top 100 Influential Women in Construction Awards return for 2024.

The Tall Buildings Conference and Awards 2024 will be held on 25 June. These superstructures are an integral part of modern urban environments, showcasing advancements and technologies.

Leeds Beckett University will work with YORhub to create a supply chain engagement toolkit. This aims to increase the number and diversity of regional SMEs with access to public sector procurement frameworks, reducing the over-dominance of large firms and introducing innovative solutions in a sector that is slow to change. It is a two-year Knowledge Transfer Partnership part-funded by the government through Innovate UK.

From 29 June M+, Asia’s global museum of contemporary visual culture in the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong, will present I. M. Pei: Life is Architecture, the first major institutional retrospective of Chinese-born American architect Ieoh Ming Pei (1917–2019).

Disadvantaged parents rule out careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) for their children because they think those jobs are “not for somebody like them”.

A joint statement from the Housing Minister Lee Rowley and the Director of Building Safety for the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) Philip White at the GB Health and Safety Executive (HSE) addresses the creation of safety case reports and associated challenges with managing safety in buildings over 18 metres.

Serving as CABE President is a great honour − I am grateful to you, my fellow members, for placing your trust in me. This is the first opportunity for me to officially announce the appointment of Richard Harral FCABE as CABE’s new CEO.

STEM education, skills and workforce planning should be a priority for the UK's next government to support the engineering and technology job surge, according to EngineeringUK.

Richard Harral, former Technical Director at CABE, has been formally announced as its new Chief Executive.

The Minister for Housing in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) and the Director of Building Safety in the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) have published a joint letter directed at registered building managers which is designed to resolve issues that have arisen around safety cases and their reports.

CABE is happy to announce that Richard Flynn PCABE CEng CEnv C.Build E FCABE is the Association’s new President.

The introduction of urgent legislation to address the disparity of legal protection to citizens affected by defective premises in Northern Ireland has been passed by the Executive.

Building Engineer reports regularly on industry news. Here’s a round-up of recent online articles.

As my time as President draws to a close, I look back with pride at what CABE has achieved and reflect on what an honour it has been to lead the Association over the past year.

The three-day National Retrofit Conference, curated by the Retrofit Academy and in partnership with Futurebuild, showcased what was being done to help decarbonise 27 million homes. Once again, the pressing need for a skilled retrofit workforce was the topic of debate.

Following a review of Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building Regulations, the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage has signed regulations entitled Building Regulations (Part B Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. No. 108 of 2024).

In March, a cargo ship experiencing electrical difficulties crashed into one of the support pillars of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, US.

From now onwards, The Pallet LOOP will attach a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag on each reusable green pallet it produces. This will generate data about the movement of pallets and associated building materials nationwide as they pass through the supply chain.