Practice management

Walk through a sustainable retrofit via the Plan of Work

Ninety year old telephone exchange gets £12.8m green update

Invest in nothing happening: how to avoid disputes

Identify, collaborate, mitigate. Network Rail’s DAPs show the way

Judges announced for 2021 Rising Stars – enter now

Rising Stars 2021 judges are waiting for your entry

News catch-up: Post-Brexit rules to impact construction material shortage

Government struggles to combat materials and staff shortages

News catch-up: Anger as fire hits another ACM-clad building

Residential tower fire highlights inaction and cost contradictions

News catch-up: Alison Brooks on winning team for Thamesmead masterplanning job

… but its Hampstead house upsets wordsmith David Hare

Nice design – but does it work? Find help with the RIBA Plan for Use Guide

How best to design for comfortable, sustainable use

News catch-up: RSHP sets up Paris base as essential response to Brexit

Brexit red tape forces Paris office, and ZHA's all-timber stadium

Architects Declare softens its hard line as Grimshaw wins airport job

Architects Declare, Harvard and Southwark dampen controversies as PAC slams UK housing policy

How do you heat a building with less carbon? Can we change our systems to reach net zero by 2050?

Expert views help fill the hole in government heat in buildings policy

Rising Star: Annabel Koeck

Leader of complex projects and mentor of the next generation

Rising Star: Ingrid Petit

Diligent, patient natural leader

Weathering the economic storms of your career

Surviving economic peaks and troughs

Measuring sustainable design

Do UK designers conform to UN Sustainable Development Goals?

Beyond business survival: preparing for practice after lockdown

Turn downtime into practice value during the Covid-19 hiatus

Streamlined design set to tackle rising construction demand

Are architects at risk of being sidelined?

Latest RIBA appointment documents promise to be more user-friendly

New Professional Services Contracts published

Co-operative by design

Cullinan Studio’s co-operative structure gives everyone a stake

How to design for fire safety

Guidance from three new Practice Notes by the RIBA

Quality control demands architects return to site

Grenfell and Oxgangs School show need for professional inspection

C is for craft in Glenn Howells' design policy

A design-led practice without a design policy? Not any more

Contract clarity is everything

What could lead to a £40m liability?

Do the right thing

Most practices aren’t doing enough to address gender disparity

Site safety: Insurers fill the fire regs gap

Mack fire shows we need more from regulation

Rules, regs and realism

The knitty gritty of fire safety

Rebuilding trust

A year after Grenfell we still need clarity

Oral contracts: messy and uncertain

You know what you agreed, but can you prove it?

From waste to architecture.

Changing practices: learning and relearning

Education must absorb new processes

Changing practices: collaboration and sharing

Face up to an interdisciplinary future

Changing practices: design validation

How research shows the value of design

Changing practices: new roles

How architecture is evolving in a changing world

Pay less notices and termination

When is a pay less notice required?

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: time to get ready

Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards: time to act

BIM reaches the courts

Lessons from the UK’s first BIM case

Learning never ends

A Classroom in the Real World

David and Goliath applies to practice too

DMA proves an agile studio can compete with giants

A way with words

Why architects need to be good communicators

How virtual reality increases actual fees

Millar + Howard Workshop is pioneering the use of VR in architecture

One destination, many roads

How young architects are stepping up in practice