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.
Writing clear and concise specifications is crucial on construction projects. A well-structured specification is not only essential for design success but can also prevent delays, unexpected costs and disputes. Here are five essential tips to help you get it right, from our Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing.
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We're recapping 2025 at NBS, from advancing best practice and delivering new sustainability tools, to driving industry conversations at the Construction Leaders' Summit. Find out what you might have missed this year...
The UK’s evolving water scarcity challenges demand a more strategic approach to managing consumption across the built environment. This article explores the regulatory landscape and best-practice principles, as well as the system, performance and product clauses available in NBS Chorus to help specifiers embed water-efficient design from the outset.
Crown Paints has joined Material Source Studio London as a founding paint partner, strengthening its relationship with the UK’s design and specification community.
Discover how the UK Government’s Energy Technology List (ETL) integrates with NBS Chorus and NBS Source to help specifiers choose verified energy-efficient products and support net zero goals.
The street furniture industry is at a crossroads. On one side lies the familiar path of disposable design and short-term thinking; on the other, a more considered approach that recognises our responsibility to future generations. After decades in this field, I've become increasingly convinced that sustainability isn't an add-on to urban furniture specification. It's fundamental to everything we do.
The NBS Construction Leaders’ Summit 2025 brought architects, specifiers, and building product manufacturers to explore how digital transformation, sustainability, and building safety are reshaping the built environment. This article explores key insights from the event, spanning data strategy and AI to safety, ethics, and regulation, revealing how the industry is moving from aspiration to action and from compliance to collaboration.
The refurbishment of flat roof areas can be complicated, and is made more difficult by different roof levels; access; waterproofing choices and more. This article, from our technical authoring team, explains the extensive guidance and detailed specification clauses available in NBS Chorus to help you deliver a successful outcome.
Acoustic separation in curtain-walled buildings can present challenges for both façade designers and engineers. These types of façade system, commonly composed of low mass materials such as glazed panels and lightweight and hollow aluminium profiles, are prone to flanking sound transmission: noise can travel from room to room via a path other than the separating partition. Curtain walls provide multiple paths for internal transfer.
