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Jacqueline Hughes, senior risk analyst at Equib, in pbctoday discusses how project managers for town centre developments can get their risk management strategy right.

Lucy Inskip, The Heritage Alliance (THA) Communications Assistant, is continuing to improve the Heritage Funding Directory, a partnership project from The Heritage Alliance and the Architectural Heritage Fund supported by the Historic Houses Foundation.

A new guide provides a blueprint on how the construction industry can react to the climate emergency with The Climate Emergency Design Guide published by LETI – the London Energy Transformation Initiative.

The £1 billion guarantee scheme set-up by the government ensures enough credit is available to allow smaller housebuilders to enter the market. image: Open Goverment Licence v3.0

Vital repairs to a Victorian railway bridge, Bennerley Viaduct on a global ‘at risk’ register will start within weeks, supporters have said.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), in association with Wellcome, has launched the Medical Humanities Awards for 2020, a national award celebrating the contribution of the arts and humanities to improving healthcare, health and wellbeing.

EPSON has published the final report on ‘The Material Cultural Heritage as a Strategic Territorial Development Resource’. image: espon.eu

The BBC has reviewed a show at the house designed by the artist Sandycombe Lodge, Twickenham Turner and the Thames’.

A new paper from the Adam Smith Institute – described by some as a the ‘neoliberal think tank’ – argues that the problem with the High Street has been totally misunderstood, saying that we need to reform restrictive planning rules … Continue reading →

The Honours Team at DCMS seeks nominations for 2021, with a simplified application form on offer to assist the process, and a closing date 24 April.

The Scottish Government has published figures from the 2018 house condition survey, which includes topics areas such as Key Attributes, Energy Efficiency, Fuel Poverty, Perceptions and Experiences and Housing Conditions.

Local authorities in England are not prepared to deal with climate change, it seems, following a freedom of information request from engineering services trade body ECA.

The School of Architecture at Taliesin, which Frank Lloyd Wright established nearly 90 years ago, will shut in June, after failing to come to a financial agreement with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation.

Edinburgh set to be home to one million trees by the end of this decade, joining counterparts all over the globe in becoming a Million Tree City. image: Fiona Newton