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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
Classifying the natural environment
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 ...
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 ...
In this exclusive extract from NBS Shortcuts , written by noted industry figure Austin Williams, we introduce the concept of duty of care.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
In this exclusive extract from NBS Shortcuts , written by noted industry figure Austin Williams, we discuss the difference between fixings and fastenings.
In this exclusive extract from NBS Shortcuts , written by noted industry figure Austin Williams, we introduce rainscreen cladding and its use in the UK.
In this exclusive extract from NBS Shortcuts , written by noted industry figure Austin Williams, we introduce the correct connection of domestic gravity-fed wastewater drainage.
Austin Williams, provides a general assessment of the needs for disabled access to toilets, in the first of the NBS Shortcuts series.
Approved Document Part F: Ventilation contains more guidance on domestic mechanical and natural ventilation systems than the previous ADF L: 1995. The main changes between the current Approved ...