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This area contains editorial queries which have been sent to NBS Technical Authors.
Technical specification
- Where do I specify fire protection boards for cladding to steel beams and columns?
- Which section of NBS should PVC fascias and soffits go in?
- Where can I specify scaffolding?
- Where do I specify secondary glazing?
- What facilities are there for performance specifying in NBS specification products?
- Where do I specify lift systems?
- Where do I specify air permeability testing?
- Where do I specify a timber deck?
- What effect does CDM have on the NBS specification products?
- Where can I find a reference to EcoHomes, BREEAM, etc in NBS products?
- Where do I specify Site Waste Management Plans?
- I am having trouble understanding and completing sections H11 and H92
- How are the NBS products structured?
- Can NBS be used overseas?
- Where do I specify hand rails?
- Where do I specify the removal of asbestos?
- I have received an NBS-based specification but the clauses and references do not match up with the clauses and references in my software
- Where do I specify under-slab insulation?
- Where do I specify insulation below a floating screed?
- Where do I specify steps?
- Does NBS have a green products directory and has it produced one in the past?
- Where do I specify a GRG ceiling?
- Where do I specify a timber retaining wall?
- Where do I specify O&M (operation and maintenance) manuals?
- Where do I specify structural insulated panels?
- Do D30 and D40 reflect the changes in the ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls?
- Where do I specify insulation to a concrete soffit?
- What is the proposal for the reorganization of CAWS?
- Where do I specify tree protection?
- Where can I specify road markings?
- Where do I specify erosion control and grass reinforcement?
Preliminaries
- Does a subscription to NBS include the Contract itself in the Preliminaries?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the JCT Management Contract/JCT Construction Management Contract?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the latest JCLI contracts?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the JCT Measured Term Contract 2005?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the SBCC (Scottish) contracts?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the JCT 1998 suite of contracts?
- Where can I find preliminaries for demolition?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the JCT Prime Cost contract?
- Where can I find the preliminaries for JCT SBC 2005 with the contractor design portion supplement?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the JCT Constructing Excellence contract?
- Where can I find preliminaries for Works Packages?
- Where can I find preliminaries for the GC/Works contracts?
NBS Contract Administrator
- Where can I find the forms for the NEC contracts?
- Where can I find forms for the JCT 2005 Design and Build contracts?
- Where can I find forms for the JCT Prime Cost contract?
- Where can I find the forms for the 'JCT 2005' contracts?
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