The IHBC’s Conservation Wiki is part of Designing Buildings Wiki (DBW), the construction industry knowledge base, and to celebrate reaching 5,000 articles, DBW has listed its most popular articles, any of which can be useful starting points for members to advance Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
IHBC Director Seán O’Reilly said: ‘IHBC’s Conservation Wiki is a publicly accessible service offering a unique interface to all aspects of construction. We encourage member to populate it with relevant content as well as to contribute to the development of existing articles. The ‘Top 50’ can also remind members that Designing Buildings Wiki is also a great starting point for our members own knowledge base and CPD.’
IHBC writes:
Conservation Wiki is part of the Designing Buildings Wiki platform created to make construction industry knowledge freely available to everyone. Anyone can create articles about subjects they know and find articles about subjects they don’t.
Conservation Wiki is operated by the Institute of Historic Building Conservation. It provides a platform for sharing knowledge about the conservation of the built and historic environment, from the restoration of cathedrals to the management of conservation areas and retrofitting period, traditional and modern properties to improve their performance.
Where there are articles on Conservation Wiki that are owned and maintained by the IHBC, they are protected from editing and linked to their original source on the IHBC website.
Comments on these articles can be emailed to IHBC’s Support Officer Carla Pianese, at support@ihbc.org.uk.
Other articles on Conservation Wiki do not necessarily reflect IHBC policy or practice.
DBW writes:
To celebrate reaching 5,000 articles, we present the most popular articles in each of our 32 subject areas.
Project Activities
| SUBJECT AREA | MOST POPULAR ARTICLE |
| Appointments | Design and build |
| BIM | Level of detail |
| Client procedures | Project brief |
| Contracts / payment | Variations |
| Construction management | Tender documentation |
| Construction techniques | Value engineering |
| Cost / business planning | Bill of quantities |
| Design | Types of drawings |
| Procurement | Preliminaries |
| Products / components | Pile foundations |
| Property development | Building design and construction fees |
| Public procedures | Procurement routes |
| Roles / services | Architect’s fees |
Legislation
| SUBJECT AREA | MOST POPULAR ARTICLE |
| Case law | Contract vs tort |
| Health and safety / CDM | CDM 2015 |
| Other legislation | Method statements |
| Planning permission | Section 278 agreements |
| Policy | Building information modelling |
| Property law | Building regulations |
| Regulations | U-values |
| Standards / measurements | Types of drawings |
| Sustainability | Sustainability in building design and construction |
| Taxation | Construction VAT |
Industry context
| SUBJECT AREA | MOST POPULAR ARTICLE |
| Conservation | Defects in brickwork |
| Education | Construction methods |
| History | The UK construction industry |
| International | Why so many women leave engineering |
| Organisations | Construction industry acronyms |
| Projects and case studies | The Big Bend, New York |
| Publications / reports | Latham Report |
| Research / innovation | 3d printing |
| Theory | Risk in building design and construction |
See more on CPD in the IHBC
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For defects in brickwork, see the DBW article and see more Conservation Wiki articles
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