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Designing Buildings Wiki
Newsletter 15 October 2019
Featured articles and news
Fountaine Hospital Almshouse
How to research a building when there are no primary sources.
Performance evaluation
How BSRIA assessed a new housing development.
Building design
What inspired the Metabolist movement?
Hebridean blackhouse
A re-thatching project supported a critically endangered skill.
Professional practice
The history and purpose of ARB and its relationship with the RIBA.
Energy-efficient refurbishment
A radical transformation of three agricultural barns in Ely.

 

Around the web
Dezeen, Oct 13
Brick columns add a new twist to a Georgian house.
Construction Manager, Oct 11
New guidance on the re-use of structural steel.
IHBC, Oct 11
Liverpool City Council buys waterfront land for £1.
Network Rail, Oct 10
Five times tech changed the railway.
ICE, Oct 10
Edinburgh’s Jack Copland Centre wins the top prize at the BCI Awards.
CIAT, Oct 10
RICS publishes a fire-safety guide for the public.
Gov.uk, Oct 10
Environmental checks around Grenfell Tower show no increased risk to health.
Dezeen, Oct 9
Hong Kong students invent a self-sanitising door handle.
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