Practice management

The irrepressible spirit of Hong Kong practice

How is China’s economic slowdown affecting architecture in Hong Kong? We speak to three practices

Rising Stars 2024 – enter now

Rising Stars is an opportunity for talented early-career professionals to be recognised

Why architects must fundamentally change the way they practise

Tim Bailey offers some radical alternatives to current ways of working

Scotland’s new heat standard ups the UK's zero carbon ante

What does Scotland’s New Build Heat Standard mean for designers and the rest of the UK?

Whole life carbon assessments: where should architects start?

Why should we carry out whole-life carbon assessments and where do we start?

How can architects bring social value to projects?

How to create a positive impact for your clients and communities

Future-focused thinking can be the key to business success

The RIBA launches its first-ever horizon-scanning programme RIBA Horizons 2034

Tools to fire the journey to net zero

Understanding whole life carbon assessment

What the new building regs mean for fees and resources

Honest discussion with clients is key to the new regime

Building Safety Act: rebalancing procurement and programme

Rebalanced programmes and early supplier involvement are key to new regime

What can architects learn about billable work in the RIBA Business Benchmarking report?

The proportion of staff time spent on billable hours is an important contributing factor to profitability

Architect's practice revenue up – along with costs

Spectacular rise in practice income is eclipsed by higher costs

Navigating the Building Safety Act's position of Principal Designer

What's different with the new role, what are the pros and cons of taking it on?

Practice resilience: how to survive and thrive

Ways to maintain business stability and boost growth

Meet the shortlist for 2023’s RIBA Client of the Year

As the shortlist is announced, we get an insight into how great architecture clients think

Homes design gears up for new overheating regulations

How Approved Document O will cut overheating in house and apartment design

What mattered most in the design of Morris+Company’s new studio

Circularity was central to the fit-out, says Joe Morris

Building Safety Act: full details published

The Building Safety Act explained

Bushra Mohamed of Msoma: you need resilience to go it alone

Why a mentor might make the difference

How to be sure you avoid greenwashing

Bennetts Associates on its anti-greenwash charter that other architects can sign up to

How – and why – to set the right fees, a practice management webinar

Get your fees right by understanding your practice

What architects need to know about copyright when taking on existing projects

Learn more about copyright and license provisions in contracts and how the RIBA Code can help you

How architects can safeguard themselves from descoping

Learn more about what to do when a project is delayed, reduced in scope or descoped

How to design housing schemes that are at home in their place

How do we make developments that belong?

Richard Griffiths seeks a better name for the architecture of adaptation

What’s in a name? Why retrofit and preservation won’t do

Rising Stars: Winners consider the big questions facing architects today

Tomorrow's influential architects mull over issues from equality to fees, growth to long hours

Has architecture’s scope narrowed too far?

A wider definition of architecture might help the profession deal with today’s challenges

How the Passivhaus Overlay to the Plan of Work can help streamline the Passivhaus certification process

A complete guide to the RIBA's new Overlay to the Plan of Work

Contacts book: David Kohn Architects’ top five collaborators

Where David Kohn goes to source timber, stone and gargoyles

Long-term strategies could be the best way to weather the recession

How will the recession affect different sectors and regions?

Making buildings: Term contractor changes working landscape at Greenhill place

How unexpected freedoms balance the constraints of the contractors list

Feilden Fowles on working a nine-day fortnight

How did Feilden Fowles make its new office schedule work for everyone?

RIBA Economics Panel: A recession is coming –what will it mean for architects?

RIBA Economics Panel forecasts a brief and shallow recession

Architects’ views from the shop floor

What practices can learn from their architectural assistants

What could the implications of the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill be for architects?

Examining questions posed by the Levelling Up Bill so far

Contacts book: Meredith Bowles on his top five collaborators

Who Mole Architects works with most closely and why

High risk residential: fire safety measures must go in at the outset

What we have learnt from Planning Gateway One

How to calculate embodied carbon for the 2030 Climate Challenge

Making sure your design aligns with aspirational embodied carbon targets

Lessons on reusing steel-on a refurbished building

How a reused structure fits into a project programme