LibGuides: Built Environment: Useful web sites

Useful websites

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors.

RICS: Home Page
RICS Student membership
Full details of how to join as a RICS student member and the benefits this gives you.
RICS Publications
Link to a suite of publications available from RICS, many of which are freely available from the site.
RICS: Construction
RICS: Library catalogue
RICS: New Rules of Measurement
NRM provides a standard set of measurement rules and essential guidance for the cost management of construction projects and maintenance works.
NB: These documents were fully updated in 2021. The new documents are available to download from this link.

Chartered Institute of Building

Institution of Civil Engineers

ICE: Home page
Institution of Civil Engineers: Student membership
Find details of how to join (FREE) as a student member of the ICE and the benefits this gives you. You will get free access to their online library and to their journal New Civil Engineer.

Institution of Structural engineers

Institution of Structural Engineers: Home page
Institution of Structural Engineers: student membership
Full details of how to join as a student member and the benefits this gives you.
BIM resources
Sustainability resources

Construction Industry Training Board

Construction Industry Training Board The Construction Industry Training Board is a partner in the Sector Skills Council for the construction industry in England, Scotland and Wales. They work with industry to encourage training, which helps build a safe, professional and fully qualified workforce

Construction Industry Research and Information Association (CIRIA)

Construction Industry Research and Information Association As a neutral, independent, not-for-profit body, they link organisations with common interests and facilitate a range of collaborative activities that help improve the industry.

Joint Board of Moderators

JBM Home page
The JBM assesses and makes recommendations on the accreditation and approval of relevant educational programmes that it will accept as meeting the requirement to register as a professional engineer with the Engineering Council (EngC) - the body responsible for regulating the engineering profession within the UK.

Joint Contracts Tribunal

The Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT)

Engineering Council

Engineering Council: Professional engineering institutions
A list of links to professional organisations involved with engineering across a range of disciplines.

NHBC Foundation

NHBC Foundation

TRADA - The leading authority on wood.

Trada

ENBRI

European Network of Building Research Institutes

ENBRI The European Network of Building Research Institutes (ENBRI) was founded in 1988 to bring together principal building and construction research institutes in Europe. Its 23 members employ in total over 3500 professional research staff. They undertake a wide range of research and innovation actions relevant to construction and the built environment, and manage unique research facilities.

NHBC: Home page
NHBC Standards
The full NHBC standards are free to read.

Eurocodes
The EN Eurocodes are a series of 10 European Standards, EN 1990 - EN 1999, providing a common approach for the design of buildings and other civil engineering works and construction products.
Many of the Eurocode documents can be downloaded from either the Construction Information Service or British Standards, both of which can be found in the list if Indexes and Databases linked below.
Indexes and Databases

Chartered Institute of Environmental Health The Chartered Institute of Environmental Health is a professional, awarding and campaigning organisation at the forefront of environmental and public health and safety.
The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 (CDM 2015) came into force in Great Britain on 6 April 2015. They set out what people involved in construction work need to do to protect themselves from harm and anyone the work affects.
Croner-i Freely available information from the Croner's website. We also have 'Croner's Management of Construction Safety' in Quick Reference at Kedleston Road.
Environmental Management: from IHS This is a subscription service provided via the University Library. From the IHS landing page, select 'Knowledge Workspace'.
Health and Safety Executive
Health and Safety Executive: Construction pages Information and support from the HSE specifically related to all aspects of the Construction industry.
Occupational Health and Safety Information Service: IHS This is a subscription service provided via the University Library. From the IHS landing page, select 'Knowledge Workspace'.
Structural-Safety Structural-Safety combines the activities of CROSS and SCOSS to work with the professions, industry and government on safety matters concerned with the design, construction and use of building and civil engineering structures. It: collects confidential data on the concerns of structural and civil engineers and others provides comments in relation to these concerns maintains a data base of reports collects data from public sources on failures, collapses and relevant incidents considers whether unacceptable risk exists, or might arise in the future promotes a positive attitude to learning from experience helps to influence changes to improve structural safety.

Construction Manager Magazine
New Civil Engineer
You will get free access to this journal when you join the ICE as a student member (free). For more information see details on the page for Professional Organisations.
New Civil Engineer: YouTube channel

Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (USA)
ArcelorMittal product library
Freely available guidance and product information from a world leading steel and mining company.

Climate Framework
Building a common language for climate action.
A Cross-Disciplinary Initiative uniting building industry and academia for climate action.

Sustainable Development Goals Online This link opens in a new window
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Sustainable Development Goals Online (SDGO) is an interdisciplinary collection of digital content, including more than 12,000 articles and chapters in an online library covering the 17 SDGs, plus teaching and learning materials including presentations, videos, case studies, teaching guides, and lesson plans.

HS2 Learning Legacy
Resource bank of information sharing insights into the HS2 project.