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Unlocking your mental health and wellbeing
You may have seen that the CIOB launched a new massive open online course (MOOC) entitled ‘Mental Health in Construction’recently. This course actively encourages dialogues from industry professionals across the globe, for those who take part they will learn to understand the signs and symptoms of poor mental health and understand how to manage their own mental wellbeing, as well as how to better support their colleagues too.
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Telling construction's story without words
13 milliseconds. According to a team of neuroscientists from MIT that is how long it takes your brain to process an entire image. Perhaps that should be unsurprising, after all we have been hardwired to absorb visual information for much longer than text. But even so, we respond to imagery in a much faster way than words.
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CIOB 2030 Visionary Project: Your vision, Our Goal
In June 2020 CIOB President Mark Beard announced the launch of the CIOB 2030 Visionary Project. This exciting new initiative aims to set up a global vision for the CIOB based on industry best practiCe and where the built environment should develop to over the next decade; analysing emerging trends and implementing new technologies.
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Mental health really is just as important as physical health
As part of World Mental Health Day, we hear the story of one man's struggle with stress and depression, as told by his wife, Michelle.
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Building towards better mental health in the construction industry
Since we launched our report, Understanding Mental Health in the Built Environment, in May 2020, the CIOB and its policy and public affairs team have been busy campaigning to raise awareness of poor mental health in construction.
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Identity and ability - one of the founders of Construct-Ability tells us about his career in construction
It’s National Inclusion Week and the CIOB is helping to mark it by hosting the launch of Construct-Ability, a networking and campaigning group for the construction community. Jez Cutler, a founder of this new group, tells us about his career in construction and why understanding issues around disability and identity are important.
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Understanding the Draft Building Safety Bill
The Government has published the Draft Building Safety Bill designed to take forward fundamental reform of the building safety system and provide urgent review of how quality and safety are managed.
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Celebrating 50 years of working in the built environment
In September 2020, Christine Gausden RD FCIOB, Trustee of the CIOB, marked 50 years of working in the built environment. Here she tells us of her career highlights and the breadth of her professional and voluntary activities.
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My pathway to Chartered Fellowship
When I became a Fellow of the CIOB, in 2010, and was advised that I had passed the interview process, it felt like such a great achievement! This was gained through hard work and effort in my day job and is, to this day, proof to other professionals of my credentials and level of experience.
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Environmental Chartership with CIOB – Highlighting your Environmental Credentials
We all know that building projects have environmental impacts in some way – some much more than others, but there are a multitude of ways to reduce these impacts, resulting in the protection and enhancement of the environment.
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The second report from the Industry Safety Steering Group on the progress of culture change in the construction sector.
Last month the Industry Safety Steering Group [ISSG] published our second report to the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.
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We need to think about the construction industry’s role in building back better
The Covid-19 pandemic is an unprecedented opportunity for positive change, and the construction industry has a crucial role to play in a clean, fair, sustainable recovery.
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