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Designing Buildings Wiki

Newsletter 20 March 2013

Competition

Our £500 CIOB competition is a great opportunity to get a competition win on your CV and raise your profile at the same time. Here are three top tips for how to win:

  • Write facts not opinions. You shouldn’t need to write ‘I’ or ‘we’.
  • Think encyclopaedia not magazine. Would your article work on Wikipedia?
  • Sanity check. Get someone else to check your article.

Click here to find out more about the competition.
 
Two great new articles by The College of Estate Management:

  • What are the differences between NRM2 and SMM7? A section by section comparison. Read more …
  • What are the key issues that influence the selection of structural systems in office design? Read more …

And a couple of other fascinating new articles:

  • Can spiders be used to stop the spread of woodworm? A recent trial suggests there may be scope for using spiders rather than sprays to control woodworm populations. The introduction of a few spiders can break the woodworm cycle by catching the beetles before they lay eggs. Read more ...
  • Live event production. A comprehensive description of this rapidly changing discipline. It’s construction, but not as we know it. Read more …

Keep an eye on our home page to stay up to date.

Designing Buildings Wiki is supported by:

Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Buro Happold
Development Securities PLC
The Chartered Institute of Building 
The College of Estate Management


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