A wide range of interesting articles that help you make informed decisions and deliver the best projects for your clients authored by our team of NBS subject specialists and construction industry contributors.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
Classifying the natural environment
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
You may not have had a Power Rangers lunch box in a while but that's no excuse not to keep learning. To help out, we've compiled some of the best TED talks on the construction industry, innovation ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Forbes describes digital twins as ‘a virtual model of a process, product or service’ - they enable teams to monitor, trial and experiment on a digital version of something physical. As a result, ...
In 2017 Northumbrian Water Group’s first Innovation Festival landed in the North East, and this year it was bigger and better than ever.
As we prepare to welcome several thousand schoolchildren to our Future Buildings exhibition over the next month, we turned our thoughts to the construction industry some of them may well work in. ...
Our Future Buildings exhibition at the Old Post Office opened earlier this month, exploring what our homes, offices and schools may look like in the future and the technology empowering the ...
The Great Exhibition of the North launched on 22nd June and is set to highlight the thousands of reasons why it’s good to live and work in the North of England. On top of this, we’ve been enjoying ...
You took BIM for Dummies to the Bahamas last year, so what should you read this time around? In advance of the holiday season we’ve compiled ten of the most popular paperbacks on big data, smart ...
On September 14th 2017, three neighbouring Staffordshire families woke up to the news that their cars had been stolen - including one model valued at over £35,000. Each house had been a victim of ...
There are hundreds of gadgets you can use to measure, document and design more effectively on both large and small scale construction projects, but it was a very bright idea indeed to integrate these ...
With its unique interlocking tube design and potential to build an infinite number of structures, it’s no wonder that the humble LEGO brick has stood the test of time. The original patent was signed ...
This September a range of spaces and places normally off-limits to the general public fling open their doors. If you're coming to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to check out the Old Post Office, home to NBS, why not take in some of these other top attractions?