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Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
Few pieces of legislation have reshaped the UK construction industry as significantly as the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). Introduced to improve accountability, traceability and safety standards ...
Level 3 is finally on its way, although the fact remains that for many organisations, and in many parts of the construction industry, Level 2 – or even anywhere close – has not yet been achieved. ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
One of the more interesting publications to be issued over the last few months in relation to BIM is Built Environment 2050: a report on our digital future (.pdf, 8.68Mb).
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
The BIM Protocol, published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in February 2013, whilst not the only BIM Protocol available, is likely to be heavily used on level 2 projects for the ...
COBie stands for Construction Operations Building Information Exchange, and is concerned with the organization and structuring of information. This is information that is essential not only to the ...
One of the most important aspects of getting to understand how BIM works is to see what happens when you use it on a real project. Obviously, there are quite a few jobs that are now up and running ...
As is well known, the Government wants the majority of its service providers to be using 3D BIM to what is known as Level 2 by April 2016. Level 2 requires the presentation of data in specific, ...
One of the best-known standard form contract clauses appears in the NEC suite of contracts. This is clause 10, which states that the Employer, the Contractor, the Project Manager and the Supervisor ...