Platform
How the Build Design Hub knowledge base is organised
Materials, building systems, guides, ideas and checklists are five different kinds of thing. Knowing which one you need is most of the work.
3 min read
Build Design Hub Editorial
Editorial desk
The Build Design Hub editorial desk researches, writes and checks Journal articles. Every factual claim is traced to a named source before publication, and the sourcing hierarchy that governs which sources count is published in full. The desk writes about the built environment; it does not practise architecture, engineering or construction, and nothing it publishes is professional advice.
Writes about
- Construction methods and sequencing
- Building materials and material properties
- Building systems and assembly interfaces
- Renovation and retrofit planning
- Construction research and technical literature
Articles
Research
How to read a technical claim about a building product
Most misleading performance figures are not false. They are true measurements of a question you were not asking.
4 min read
Systems
Materials, systems and the interfaces between them
Almost nothing in a building fails in the middle of a material. It fails where two of them meet.
3 min read
Platform
Welcome to the Build Design Hub Journal
A dated publication alongside an undated knowledge base — and why keeping the two apart matters more than it sounds.
4 min read
Research
Where construction facts come from
A source hierarchy is not bureaucracy. In construction it is the difference between a number you can build on and a number somebody made up.
3 min read