Dr Stephen Hamil

2018 has been a big year for the range of NBS specification products. There have been enhancements, based on customer feedback, to NBS Building and NBS Create. In addition, we have recently launched our new cloud-based specification platform NBS Chorus.

At the recent Discover events there were a number of presentations from NBS customers. We take a look at their stories in respect to how they are integrating NBS into their existing workflows.

Stephen Hamil, Director of Research and Innovation at NBS, looks at the top ten reasons why the use of a digital master system for writing and managing specifications is better than using a tool such as Microsoft Word

As a construction product manufacturer, what should be at the heart of your digital strategy?

This article introduces some new public beta functionality that allows models and specifications to be uploaded and viewed from the context of a project within the NBS BIM Toolkit. We’re hoping that this new functionality will be well received by NBS users within their existing BIM workflows.

This case study looks at how Manchester City Council’s supply chain is utilising BIM on their schools’ programme. It looks at one of these schools, the St Margaret’s refurbishment project, through the design and specification phases.

Producing a specification doesn't have to be an afterthought. We show how early collaboration can help make the specification process run much more smoothly, resulting in much improved outputs.

BIM Level 2 – Was it worth it? Is it working? And what support can we expect for BIM Level 3?

At NBS we are committed to supporting open standards for BIM. Furthermore, we have been one of the most active organisations in the UK involved in developing these standards and encouraging their use. Here we explore just what that means in practice.

NBS recently became the first UK organisation to become an Autodesk Solution Associate following years of hard work and collaboration via the Autodesk Developer Network. Here we take a look at developments.

Slides from the BIM Through the Project Timeline presentation delivered by Dr Stephen Hamil from NBS at Ecobuild 2016.

An insight from small and medium practices that have adopted a BIM process.