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Experts in Risk
The UK Building Safety Act imposes a duty to appoint competent professionals for work on higher risk buildings. The challenge for dutyholders is how to
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#321 Circular Construction – Designing for Disassembly
We can reuse and retrofit buildings to extend their lifespans, and reduce their embodied carbon impact. But some structures may not be suitable for full
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#315 Renewing the World, Without Costing the Planet
How should engineers think about their duty to design safe structures? For IStructE’s head of climate action Will Arnold, this duty extends beyond the structure,
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#58 Construction declares climate emergency
Since mid-2019, over 900 architectural practices in the UK have made a declaration of climate and biodiversity emergency, acknowledging the extreme seriousness of our situation