The new tax, called the 'Building Safety Levy', will apply to firms earning more than £25m a year from next year. buff.ly/2XWRUjP #budget2021 #property #tax #development #developer #propertydeveloper

The new Alliance will commit £175 million, providing both loan finance and expert support to SME housebuilders buff.ly/3jOZBQB #development #SMEs #finance #loans #newhomes #ecohomes

“Building projects are stalling and wages are rising as a result of the labour squeeze, while costs are rocketing for materials caught up in the wider disruption to global supply chains.”

The trend for living walls is spreading to car parks, schools and shopping centres. But why are some of them dying? 🍃 Ella Jessel investigates bit.ly/3Bq2cXb

"Emerging from the curved walls are fitted furnishings like seating and tables created during the printing process." buff.ly/3EIGiAN #3D #3Dprinting #housing #sustainability #design #architecture #clay

"Currently, green homes are too expensive to build, and too expensive to buy... as it stands the numbers don’t work." buff.ly/2ZP3tdy #greenhomes #budget2021 #housing #housebuilding #SMEs #property #developer #development

For our second talk of Royal Institute of British Architects Guerrilla Tactics conference (14:40 on 9th Nov), we’ll be hearing from Service Designer, @worddoodles_EP (Emma Parnell), asking how architects can learn new ways of working from parallel design disciplines, like Service Design? #RIBAGuerrillaTactics

To wrap up day 1 of the Royal Institute of British Architects Guerrilla Tactics conference (14.10 on 9th November), we have Sophia de Sousa, The Glass-House CLD, Sam Goss, Barefoot Architects, David Knight + @monteircristina, DK/CM, Becca Thomas, New Practice and Gurmeet Sian #RIBAGuerrillaTactics

Last night we won Building News Building Awards Housing Project of the Year, (sponsored by Daikin UK ) for our project for Brick By Brick ; Windmill Place! #pitmantozer

Is the future of collaboration online? On the final day of the #RIBAGuerrillaTactics conference (15:15 11th Nov) two practitioners, Clare Nash and Tom Vigar, Bauman Lyons will explore potential futures for the daily life of the architect.

Emerging talent Studio MUTT, working with Roger Zogolovitch’s Solidspace, has won the Liverpool City Region’s ideas competition for a new post-Covid townhouse bit.ly/2YlJ4fw

"61 per cent of builders said these factors were the biggest obstacles adding pressure to their bottom line, in a survey of more than 50 English housebuilders" buff.ly/3D6qcR6 #building #housebuilding #construction #costs #SupplyChain

Insulation without airtightness is like buying a fancy down jacket that doesn’t do up, writes Raven Kate De Leon bit.ly/3kwKj3x

The winners of the AJ Student Prize have been announced at a ceremony in Hackney, east London bit.ly/3cdgzUM

Last chance to register for the next topic on 'The impacts of COVID-19 on how we practise architecture' as part of #GlobalArchitectureExchange. Don't miss out on the opportunity to join worldwide architects in conversation on 17 November, 7 am (GMT).eventbrite.co.uk/e/2021-global-…

Fantastic and enlightening thread about Straw Housing!

Congratulations to LPF members @BellPhillipsArc @MaeArchitects Turner.Works and RCKa architects who all won top prizes at this year’s NLA #NewLondonAwards2021. nla.london/awards/new-lon…

Any clients pursuing price-led procurement of design or construction should take a long, hard look at this and wonder whether shaving a few percent off the cost is really worth it in the long run. bdonline.co.uk/news/southwark…