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The Institute has updated its MCIAT Professional Assessment (PA) Top Tips guidance document for 2026.

A note on membership certificates.

Next year will be a decade since the horrific Grenfell Tower fire, an avoidable incident in which 72 lives were needlessly lost, and communities changed forever. The fire and its aftermath exposed serious flaws in almost every aspect of the design, construction and management of housing, from councils to contractors, professions to products, and testing regimes to tenancies.

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The Wales Region will host a high-impact panel event bringing together senior voices from Welsh Government, leading industry professionals, legal experts, and design practitioners to examine the real-world implementation of the Building Safety Act (BSA) in Wales.

The Construction Leadership Council (CLC) has published two new guidance notes on the Fire and Emergency File and the Building Regulations Compliance Statement for Building Control approval applications for new Higher-Risk Buildings (HRBs).

The Passive Fire Knowledge Group (PFKG) has published three new Knowledge Shares to address misunderstanding in the specification of passive fire protection systems across the built environment.

The Supply Chain School's annual Diversity Data Benchmarking Survey is open.

A new exemplar cross referenced against the 2025 Chartered Architectural Technologists Professional Standards Competency Framework (PSCF) is available to review on the website.