Well-managed project information and a robust specification are key to the success of construction projects. Kate Foster explains why, in the context of the current legal and contractual landscape.

This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to nine tables, and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing classifications.

Understand how a digital plan of work that follows the RIBA Plan of Work can be produced. Links are provided to RIBA resources, providing guidance and a Microsoft Excel template ‘Toolbox’.

Specification is a process which develops throughout the project timeline. This article examines specification development from outline to descriptive requirements and into prescriptive solutions, in the context of information management processes.

As part of the 2014/ 15 Innovate UK-funded BIM Toolkit project, NBS worked with BDP and Mott MacDonald to produce a set of indicative ‘level of detail (LOD) guides’. These are now available as a set of downloads. This article discusses the guides in the context of current information management processes.

We caught up with Senior Architect Communication Manager Ole Pontoppidan to find out more about the latest product range of glass rooflights from VELUX, and how specifiers can find them on NBS Source.

NBS is working on a collaborative five-part guide, with input from members of the NBS technical and information teams and other sustainability champions. When released, customers will be able to reference the guides and find what they need to aid in their sustainable specification efforts.

Lee Jones, NBS’ Head of Manufacturer Solutions, caught up with Bauder’s Area Technical Manager Andy Leggett to discuss how the manufacturer uses NBS to work with specifiers. 

This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to eight tables and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing classifications.

This article provides guidance to those working in a modelling environment that wish to label objects with both a Uniclass code and also the relevant IFC entities and pre-defined types.

At our recent NBS Construction Leaders’ Summit, BDP Chief Information Officer Alistair Kell told the story of BDP’s digital transformation journey. This article looks at how NBS is a part of BDP’s digital process, the presentation is available to watch and a short interview with Alistair is listed below.