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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How the Accreditation Assessment Process is changing in line with our Corporate Plan and the Engagement Model
The CIOB accredits Bachelor and Master’s degrees across the UK and internationally, in a range of Built Environment subjects, including Construction Management, Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying and Architectural Technology.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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What is IR35 and how will that impact construction?
Changes to the way off-payroll works will be coming into force on 6 April 2021, and has the potential to significantly impact the UK construction industry. The off-payroll change, also known as IR35, will alter how contractors and consultants operate in the private sector and many clients are having to examine their policies to ensure they remain compliant. IR35 can be confusing and so this blog aims to shed some light on what it is, who exactly this will affect and how to ensure you are compliant. Some links to further reading are included at the end, should you wish to delve deeper.