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.
Sustainability
Sustainable Futures UK Report 2026
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
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Construction Products
Visqueen launches Ultimate Self Adhesive Membrane for hydrocarbon and VOC-contaminated sites
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 ...
Construction Products
Siderise: Helping to bridge the gap between Gateway 2 approval and on-site fire protection
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 ...
RIBA CPD
RIBA CPD for Architects: Understanding Flooring Specification and Detailing
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Free data from docs and come together to reap the rewards of BIM
What is it about this thing called BIM? Here we are, at the end of the year in which the UK government BIM mandate was implemented. Six years after Paul Morrell’s BIM Strategy was outlined and five ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Building Information Modelling: What information is in the model?
Probably one of the most frequently asked questions from anyone working on a BIM project is “How much information should be in my model, or how much information am I expected to provide?”
Digital Transformation
Bamboozled by BIM terminology?
Many people embarking on a BIM project for the first time find the new terminology, number of acronyms, and amount of documents required, quite daunting, confusing and seemingly overly complicated. ...
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
Comment : No more 'pseudo BIM' please
Ralph Montague, a qualified architect and Managing Partner at ArcDox , argues that "pseudo BIM" is having a negative effect at precisely the time we should be encouraging true BIM adoption...