Knowledge

After four months in negative territory, the RIBA Future Trends Workload Index rose to +3 in July, from –17 in June.

This post launches the Future Place 'Rethink' blog series and sets out some of its main themes.

Celebrate the class of 2020 and explore our RIBA Future Architects guide to Degree Shows across the UK.

Read our announcement of the new RIBA President Elect and RIBA Council members.

RIBA has launched workshops across the South West aimed at supporting architects achieve targets set in the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge.

Resilient practices are more than the sum of their parts. Their resilience is derived from the resilient individuals who work there and the contributions they make. Drawing on research with 17 practices from across the UK, this Recovery Roadmap feature from Phase 3: Resilience explores how practices can nurture and develop resilient staff.

Research plays an important role in developing practice ethos, demonstrating value in winning work and improving the design quality and performance of projects. It demands commitment – and resources – to gaining and applying new knowledge and finding more effective ways of approaching projects. Drawing on research with 17 practices across the UK, this Recovery Roadmap feature from Phase 3: Resilience explores how resilient practices approach and resource research projects, and how they use the knowledge and skills developed to expand into new services and markets.

The UK government have announced that from August 2020, extra storeys will be allowed and natural light will be made mandatory under Permitted Development.

Numerous practices have reported a surge in client interest in sustainable buildings. But do such clients properly understand what sustainable building involves and requires?

The RIBA has responded to the Government’s White Paper – ‘Planning for the Future’ – outlining reforms to the country’s planning system.