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Here are some of the highlights from commission鈥檚 coverage in June:

• The launch an ideas competition for younger construction professionals. The Future Thinkers competition is calling on professionals who are 35 and under to submit their the most innovative idea that could improve the built environment. The deadline for entries is Friday 18 August, and you can submit your entries by emailing buildingfuturecommission@building.co.uk  
• Our regional tour in partnership with Constructing Excellence continued with roundtable meetings in Newcastle and Manchester, the latter with support from Willmott Dixon. Detailed summaries of both discussions will be published in the coming weeks.
• As part of our focus on project delivery we ran a two-part feature looking at the factors behind the success and failure of MMC and asked if platform systems could offer real hope for the future.
• In a discussion about diversity in the workplace Lara Oydele, president of the Chartered Institute for Housing, put forward a radical solution, saying boardroom diversity needs to be enforced through regulation.
• For our net zero stream, we took a detailed look at proposals by the UKGBC and the Energy Efficiency Infrastructure Group (EEIG) for retrofitting homes via an energy saving stamp duty initiative. 
• The digital stream ran an interview with ALICE technologies boss Ren茅 Morkos about his ambitions for his AI software.
• We focused on one of key public sector pipelines of work: the New Hospitals Programme, asking how opportunities can be unlocked and how construction can demonstrate a return on investment to clients under increasing financial pressure.
• We explored radical plans to reform architectural education and whether they will be enough to restore faith in architects鈥� technical and leadership skills post-Grenfell.

This month we have already interviewed Gauri Talathi-Lamb, the chief executive of M&E consultant FHP, about her rise to the top for our workplace culture and leadership coverage. And we are planning to:

• Ask if T-levels wIll deliver for archtiecture and construction as part of our skills and education stream.
• Continue our coverage of innoviations in construction by looking at the next steps for digital twins.
• Focus on the funding gap in school building work following the recent National Audit Office report.
• Talk to key figures involved in the drive to ensure construction product claims are backed up by evidence as part of our focus on building safety.