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Videos, podcasts, PiP webinars on award winning buildings and easy routes to reading on all the RIBA core CPD topics

  1. Intelligence

Economics Panel: How much should we be preparing for economic growth in 2025?

After several years of financial uncertainty and high interest rates, the focus of the RIBA Economics Panel in November 2024 was on how the design and construction industry might return to growth next year. Speakers from the Bank of England, RIBA and practice reflected on the economic outlook

22 November 2024

Sustainable architecture

The longlisted entries for the 2025 MacEwen Award are proof that architectural projects of any shape or form can bring significant benefits to communities

Thirty projects that engage with inclusion, sustainability, communities and health

Kicking off our Christmas mini-series on architects’ favourite books, Shankari Raj champions EF Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful with its call to stop plundering the earth's resources

Shankari Raj on EF Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful with its call to stop plundering the earth's resources

Construction system with 0.5m-thick walls aims to exceed forthcoming Scottish Passivhaus regulations and reduce heating bills by 79%

System could slash heating bills by 79%

‘Invisible’ integrated standing seam solar roof gains traction among UK architects with its capacity to generate four times the energy its home consumes

‘Invisible’ Velario solar roof gains traction among UK architects

As the dust settles after COP 29, C.F. Møller's Head of Sustainability Rob Marsh reveals the motivation to build in timber driving both Denmark and his practice and the issues it raises, and discusses where other aspects of sustainable design fit in

The motivations and issues of designing in timber

Health, safety & wellbeing

Modern life is stressful enough without environments that exacerbate this, yet good architecture can help us feel safe and connected, say the authors of Blueprints for the Soul: Why We Need Emotion in Architecture

In a stressful world, good architecture can help us feel safe and connected

Studious attention to air quality, sound, lighting and materials has earned the Huddersfield University scheme the UK’s first ever Platinum certification for wellbeing in a higher education building

Certification recognises attention to air quality, sound, lighting and materials

The RIBA is committed to providing the guidance and support you need following publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report, says Muyiwa Oki

The RIBA is committed to providing the guidance you need following publication of the Grenfell report

Last week’s report placed particular criticism at the feet of Studio E, the architect behind the tower’s refurbishment. John Jervis summarises its findings and recommendations for the profession

Summarising the report's findings and recommendations for the architecture profession

The wild simplicity of mountains makes sense of being an architect for the founder of Klas Hyllén Architecture, who shares his exhilaration from the Haute-Savoie

The value of the work-to-live moment of being in the mountains

Building conservation and heritage

There’s a distinct theme of preservation in this selection of must-reads, looking at historic materials, restoration and retrofitting, and why we should design out hazardous materials

Investigations into indoor air quality, retrofitting historic buildings and heritage materials

Buildings interspersed with gardens gave the city’s 1970s Sport and Recreation Centre room to move and grow

Gardens and arcades supplied future flexibility

Emil Eve Architects’ scheme adds a side extension in keeping with the existing building and a more modern three-volume full-width rear extension, explains practice founder Emma Perkin

A three-volume full-width rear extension is influenced by Nordic and Japanese traditions

Twentieth century erosion of the traditional way of life and buildings in this Jeddah district is being countered in Allies and Morrison’s masterplan to restore and sensitively develop

Allies and Morrison restores and builds on tradition

O-office Architects’ Jianxiang He explains the process of design and reuse on a remarkable indoor-outdoor building, which has been shortlisted for this year’s RIBA International Prize

O-office Architects on the process of design and reuse on a remarkable indoor-outdoor building

Architecture for social purpose

A sensitive rural setting puts much of this Hungarian cider press and visitor centre underground, but it's the rule-busting top of the building that is the toast of the design

Roof is the star in Hungary’s sensitive rural setting

Timber looms large in Steinberg Hart’s Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, both as a material and a design motif, referencing the logging boom-town origins of a US city now reinventing itself as an arts and culture destination

Timber looms large in the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire, both as a material and a design motif

IF_DO has transformed a former newspaper printworks into a community building for social enterprise Hastings Commons

IF_DO has transformed a former newspaper printworks into a community building

With issue driven politics and direct action on the rise, architects are playing their part in helping to give protest a voice. Nick Newman on what's happening

Nick Newman looks at the relationship between architecture and civil resistance

Our annual, free celebration of buildings that work for the common good is welcoming submissions until 25 October. Send us projects you know of that bring real social benefit

Send in projects that work for the common good for free entry to the competition

Business, clients and services

Faced with constant challenges when it comes to setting fees, how architecture practices demonstrate value is an important consideration.

Faced with constant challenges when it comes to setting fees, how architecture practices demonstrate value is an important consideration.

£50,000 funding will expand HomeNotes app with low carbon advice, EPD access, and an interface to help architects guide and monitor clients through projects

Poulsom Middlehurst will use the £50,000 funding to expand HomeNotes app

Over the past 10-to-15 years, Weston Williamson + Partners (WW+P) has grown across the world, working on major infrastructure projects with nine studios across four continents. Chief executive Ali Mowahed explains how the UK-based practice achieved this

WW+P's chief executive on how the practice achieved its worldwide expansion

From Babel to Grand Designs, communication has been the make or break of projects for thousands of years. Will we ever master it, asks Eleanor Young

Communication is key to construction, but will we ever master it?

Learn more about how practices can make meaningful improvements to their ways of working in order to increase growth and efficiency

Learn more about how practices can make meaningful improvements to their ways of working in order to increase growth and efficiency

Legal, regulatory and statutory compliance

The number of professionals saying sustainability is usually or always achieved on projects drops by 10% compared to 2014, NBS survey reveals

Ten percent fall in success rates signals trouble with climate action

Arup Hong Kong head of design Freddie Hai talks about his role as an authorised person, which combines aspects of principal designer, building control approver and building inspector

Arup Hong Kong head of design Freddie Hai talks about his role as an authorised person,

With the Net Zero Carbon Buildings Standard pilot released at the end of September, governance board -member David Partridge reveals the thinking and aims behind it

A pilot has been published for a UK Net Zero Carbon Building Standard

Practice co-founder Dan Jones describes the kitchen and dining space he has designed for Simon House, his own family home in Honor Oak, south-east London

Civic co-founder Dan Jones on the ground-floor extension designed for his own family home

As the BSA imposes profound changes on the construction process, Pilbrow & Partners is putting a rigorous checklist and proof of principal designer competence at the heart of its quality control

Pilbrow & Partners is putting collaboration, competence and checking at the heart of quality control

Procurement and contracts

Learn more about new initiatives and frameworks that help to boost social value and purpose.

Learn more about new initiatives and frameworks that help to boost social value and purpose.

Three borough councils are expected to pipeline their projects through a new agreement designed to build engagement between the capital's public sector clients and a diverse range of architects

Three boroughs are expected to pipeline their projects through new agreement, which launches in May 2025

Associate Rob Leechmere on insulating a Cornish cottage without compromising its character, curtains’ ‘intimate embrace’ as partitions, and the gravitas of stone

Associate Rob Leechmere reveals three of the firm’s favourite products

Fifth edition of The William Sutton Prize invites 'disruptors and innovators' from architecture and beyond to submit breakthrough ideas that accelerate the social housing sector’s transition to net zero

Prize invites 'disruptors and innovators' to submit radical and sustainable social housing ideas

Contract administrators could be putting their clients and themselves at risk if interim certificates are not issued, says RIBA Specialist Practice Adviser Robert Stevenson

Contract administrators could be putting their clients and themselves at risk if interim certificates are not issued

Inclusive environments

Chris Hopkinson, one of the 2-4 per cent of the population with aphantasia, explains how his career has nevertheless taken a very visual direction – and argues that our education system shouldn't assume everyone's mind works in the same way

Despite his aphantasia, Chris Hopkinson’s career has taken a very visual direction

Promotes diversity in the profession through mentoring

Promotes diversity in the profession through mentoring

Dedicated to empowering agency in the built environment and driving positive change in the profession

Dedicated to driving positive change in the profession

Disability activist drawing on her experience as a blind woman to advocate for inclusive design

Disability activist drawing on her experience as a blind woman to advocate for inclusive design

Lack of inclusivity in the design of buildings and spaces is affecting ‘millions of people’ with knock-on impacts for footfall and commerce, say Grosvenor and The Crown Estate

Failure to design fully accessible buildings damages footfall and commerce says report

Places planning & community

Fostering culture and community in a modern, local context is important to Dubai-based Saudi architect Sumaya Dabbagh. We can nurture our identity, she says

We can nurture our identity in a connected world, says the Saudi architect

Planners, architects and finance experts consider the need to provide more homes – and find great, sustainable opportunities by using the existing housing stock better and incentivising downsizing

Sustainable options include improving existing buildings and using them better

In a city that seldom celebrates its everyday architecture, new stations by UK architects Fosters, Grimshaw and McAslans, along with Australian practice Woods Bagot, have provoked public joy at their sheer grandeur, writes Sydney-based critic Elizabeth Farrelly

The publicly acclaimed new line includes stations by Fosters, Grimshaw and McAslans

The UK shortage of available homes needs better than the laudable initiatives to build more. Muyiwa Oki demands action

We need more than laudable initiatives to build more says Muyiwa Oki

Dedicated to integrating nature into the built environment

Dedicated to integrating nature into the built environment

Design, construction and technology

We need to boost our vocational workforce, which starts with the buildings that deliver the training. Funding, planning and the role of the architect are critical

Ways to design buildings that enable effective teaching

Construction system with 0.5m-thick walls aims to exceed forthcoming Scottish Passivhaus regulations and reduce heating bills by 79%

System could slash heating bills by 79%

As Abu Dhabi’s new desert city reaches maturity, its commitment to net-zero makes it both a test-bed for the world’s carbon ambitions

The city is both test-bed and exemplar for net-zero carbon ambitions

The conversion of a building in the Canonbury Conservation Area removes a modern infill extension to bring light and air back into the lower ground floor

The conversion removes a modern extension to bring light and air back into the lower ground floor

Joe Franklin of Kingston University tackles twin crises of housing and ecological pressure with sustainable, flexible settlement in his project Ultra Town

Joe Franklin tackles twin crises of housing and ecological pressure

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