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The world of construction is always changing. Our blogs uncover the latest developments in the industry and provide insight into the work CIOB and our members are doing for the built environment.

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A new CIOB Technical Information Sheet on Building Conservation - for everybody

Actions required to tackle climate change has highlighted the importance of retaining existing buildings as an option to the construction of new ones. This necessitates an ever-increasing need for the construction sector to be much better equipped in caring for, adapting, and retrofitting existing buildings, with the biggest challenge concerning traditionally constructed ones and that is why this new Technical Information Sheet is so important.

March 30, 2021

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Improving the energy efficiency of our homes

The Environmental Audit Committee has published the findings of its latest inquiry into the energy efficiency of existing homes, concluding that improving energy efficiency provides a huge opportunity to develop supply chains, provide jobs across the UK and reach net zero by 2050. We take a look at the challenges of retrofitting the UK's existing housing stock, and what can be done to help deliver a retrofit programme on a national scale.

March 25, 2021

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Defining Construction Management

More than a decade ago, CIOB Past President John Bale and the late Past President Li Shirong set about defining what construction management is. CIOB felt it was time to reinforce those early messages contained in the previous definition.

March 8, 2024

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Construction Innovation Scholarship: Meet the Successful Candidate

The CIOB delivered the Construction Innovation Scholarship in 2020-21. This unique programme was put together to enable our membership community at all levels to consider research projects, focusing on new ideas and concepts which could be of benefit to the industry.

March 11, 2021

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The Success Stories of CIOB Chartered Academics

The CIOB is building a pool of academics that have achieved chartered status and have become MCIOB. We’ve been finding out the impact a CIOB chartered status has had on some of your peers in academia.

March 11, 2021

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In the Limelight: The CIOB Student Festival April 2021

CIOB’s very first Student Festival is being delivered on the 7 and 8 April 2021. We are so excited to be launching a virtual festival designed to celebrate, inspire and inform our student members across the globe.

March 11, 2021

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Celebrating and Supporting our Student Members

The Education Team have been working very hard on our Student Festival, which is to be held on 7 and 8 April and we are very excited about this. The student experience is more important than ever and with COVID-19 restrictions still in place, we understand how challenging it is to give students that full university experience.

March 11, 2021

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What the 2021 Budget means for construction

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has today (3 March) delivered his 2021 Budget, promising a three-part plan to protect jobs and livelihoods, strengthen public finances and begin to build the future economy and multiple measures intended to deliver the Government's 'build back better’ agenda. The CIOB policy team looks at what these measures will mean for the construction industry.

March 3, 2021

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Building back better from Covid-19: Views from the global construction industry

Over the past year, significant emphasis has been placed on the central role of the construction industry in helping the UK to ‘build back better’. This idea is not unique, and nations around the world are using Covid-19 as an opportunity to reassess their priorities, with many now looking to the built environment to stimulate their economy, create jobs and work towards a sustainable future. We take a look at some of the plans of governments around the world to support the construction industry and build back from the pandemic.

March 3, 2021

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What does APEL mean for me?

Recently we launched a new route to becoming chartered – ‘APEL’. This stands for Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning. But what is this?

March 17, 2022

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Governance under review and changes on the way

In my last blog, I noted that “governance is not a topic that captures the headlines... ” That remains true. But there is great interest among members in this topic and the engagement we get when we talk about it is really positive. So I’m providing another update on our governance review project.

February 19, 2021

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