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All available articles:

• A building that feels good: Wellcome Trust, Gibbs Building
• All at sea
• An inspector calls |
• Anti-flood drainage: Building (or not building) in 'inappropriate' locations |
• Assisted Living and Smart Homes: design solutions for an aging population |
• Ban the ban: materials blacklists |
• Calibration report for Eurocode 1 on wind actions |
• Compliance with Eurocodes |
• Compost specifications for the landscape industry |
• CPIC and Uniclass – who, what and why? |
• Currency of NBS with respect to Eurocodes |
• Design recommendations for multi-storey and underground car parks |
• Education checklist - lecture theatres |
• External stairs, ramps, handrails and balustrades |
• Facility management briefing
• Future specifiers |
• Green specifying |
• How to specify: A century of works on building specification practice |
• How to use NBS content |
• Interior design: the Design Brief stage |
• Lining-up with the new standard |
• Living façade in Copenhagen at European Environment Agency Headquarters |
• Lofty aspirations: utilising the roofspace |
• Minimising the impact of future flooding |
• Music accommodation in secondary schools: the music department |
• NBS and the structural Eurocodes |
• NBS Create |
• NBS products for 'small works' specification |
• Near-future project specifications |
• New light through old windows |
• Not just a timber deck |
• Portas Review|
• Post-Olympic legacy: learning from former host cities
• Powell and Moya: Oxbridge and beyond |
• Public procurement legislation in the EU |
• Public sector building: adaptable housing for special needs |
• Rainscreen cladding: letting air in to keep rain out |
• Review: Frank W Macey, Specifications in detail, Donhead, 2009 (reprint of 1904 edition) |
• Revisiting EU Directive 2004/18/EC
• RIBA Changing Practices Symposium |
• Root Causes : Building near trees requires extra deep foundations |
• Ryder and Yates: Twentieth Century Architects |
• Smart homes |
• Specifying colour |
• Specifying controls |
• Specifying for sports |
• Standard section structure revisited |
• Substitution and beyond |
• Sustainable specification |
• The benefits of master specifications |
• The efficiently formed building |
• The fall of skill, the rise of automation |
• The future of specification |
• The mail must get through |
• The new NBS |
• The role of mycorrhiza for plants in stressed environments |
• The use of historic buildings as museums and art galleries |
• The value of construction history to building refurbishment projects |
• Toilets for disabled access |
• When birds are banned: architectural tactics for managing birds |
• Yes! We have no specifications |