Time is running out for YOU to enter the RIDBA Building Awards 2023!
March 31 is the deadline by which RIDBA members can enter to put themselves in with a chance of winning a trophy.
There are eight categories:
IAE will open the doors of its new base this spring when it hosts its fellow RIDBA members for an exclusive tour.
Members will be able to visit the Staffordshire company on April 20, when it will also host RIDBA’s AGM.
AJN Steelstock is the headline sponsor of September’s RIDBA Building Awards.
Premium sponsors Joseph Ash Galvanizing, Barrett Steel and Read more
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The RIDBA office will be closed for Christmas from midday on Thursday, December 22 until 9am on Tuesday, January 3.
We hope you find some time over the festive period to wind down with family and friends and prepare for...
Hundreds will head to Cambridge next September for the return of RIDBA’s flagship event.
It’s been confirmed the RIDBA Building Awards will take place at the Graduate Cambridge hotel, nestled on the banks of the River Cam.
The biennial event celebrates excellence in...
“In hot conditions, cattle can become unproductive, overheat or die”.
Those words are from the opening line of a paper in the Journal of Agricultural Engineering Research published in 2000 by two colleagues - Rod McGovern and Jim Bruce. They had produced a model of the thermal balance for cattle...
RIDBA members were greeted with open arms during a visit to their fellow member Shufflebottom earlier this month.
Director Alex Shufflebottom gave an insightful talk on the history of the Llanelli-based and spoke about its recent investments in its production process and people.
RIDBA members are running out of time to book their spot on a tour of the factory of Shufflebottom.
Shufflebottom is an award-winning company which specialises in steel-framed buildings and structural steelwork and has built more than 15,000 structures across the UK.
The...
In the previous issue of the RIDBA Journal I wrote about wind loading on buildings and how to design with it in mind.
The article considered the many factors that affect the speed of the wind as it approaches a building, or other obstruction, and the need to perform bespoke...
The interaction of space and animal welfare has been mentioned before in this section, along with the suggestion that we need to recognise the value of the quality and quantity of space made available to animals.
In the early days of research into animal welfare and the development of animal...