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Publications

There are two Building for Life publications that explain the criteria and how to evaluate housing proposals.

 

Building for Life publications

  • Delivering great places to live: 20 questions you need to answer

    Delivering great places to live

    Explains the 20 Building for Life standard criteria and provides a valuable tool to assess design quality in new housing schemes.

  • Cover of evaluating housing proposals step by step

    Evaluating housing proposals step by step

    Commissioned and funded by the Housing Corporation’s innovation and good practice programme to support housing designers and developers in producing well designed developments and achieving Building for Life awards.

  • Building for Life assessment exercise

    Building for Life assessment exercise

    The Building for Life assessment exercise is used to score informal assessments for new housing developments.