RIBAJ issues | Design in the making
RIBA Journal is the largest circulation publication serving the architecture profession. Published monthly, plus its two-monthly Products in Practice supplement, it is the only magazine to reach nearly 28,000 RIBA members across UK and international markets.
RIBAJ January 2025 issue | RIBAJ
Jan 3, 2025 · Renzo Piano plays host at Paddington Cube, Scott Brownrigg’s massive film studios and how they keep them quiet, students’ projects with the RIBA President’s Medals, Texan practice Lake | Flato profiled
House of the Year 2024 shortlist: Eavesdrop by Tom Dowdall | RIBAJ
Oct 31, 2024 · The client is delighted with the result, remarking: ‘Our retirement home is heavenly. It is warm in winter, cool in summer, comfortable, on a single level, and wheelchair-friendly throughout with no ledges, steps or thresholds.
Conference - RIBAJ
The Building Safety Act 2022 requires all architects to ensure compliance with building regulations and demonstrate their competence. This involves planning, managing, and monitoring their designs to ensure they meet the functional requirements of building regulations – which requires specifying active and passive fire protection systems, and proper egress routes.
Our top five professional features for 2024 | RIBAJ
Dec 19, 2024 · What architects need to know about RIBA’s new Health and Safety Test 2024. In May, RIBA relaunched its Health and Safety Test, specifically developed so that members can demonstrate they meet the requirements of RIBA Health and Safety Competency.The free online test becomes mandatory for Chartered Members working on projects in England from the New Year (2025) and replaces a voluntary pilot ...
RIBAJ top 5 Products stories: your most popular reads in 2024
Dec 20, 2024 · #5: Bricks made from quarry waste cut carbon on Hackney extension (12 April) Whether a PV-impregnated standing seam roof, ultra-low carbon concrete or prefabricated Passivhaus systems, RIBAJ’s products tab makes it a home for those seeking innovations in low-carbon specification.
PiP events | Design in the making - RIBA Journal
Products; Webinar: One-off homes: think outside the box. Anyone who considers the one-off house to be simply the indulgent end of design should think again – we round up some rich examples of sustainable, stylish and innovative properties
Pierre Bidaud: champion of structural stone | RIBAJ
Nov 18, 2024 · While Bidaud is stimulated by working in the UK, where he says engineering design is developed via proving your case rather than the more homogenising, code-based approaches of France, he admits that there remain many challenges to large-scale adoption of structural stone here, the primary one being contractual relationships.
Fully integrated solar roof fabric Velario wins more orders after …
Dec 2, 2024 · A fully-integrated solar roof, installed on the UK’s first Passivhaus Premium-certified home and able to generate more than four times the energy than the house consumes, has been specified on four other newbuild and extension projects.
What architects need to know when taking on existing projects
May 18, 2023 · ‘It is not uncommon for an architect to be instructed to develop to completion the design of another architect,’ says Christopher Smart, Director Smartarch, and someone who has been dealing with complaints against architects via ARB and RIBA for over 20 years. ‘Such situations can arise when the first architect develops a scheme for planning and then the site is sold and another ...