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.
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.
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 ...
This article from the NBS technical team outlines specification for brick slip technology, including history, technology, design, safety and testing.
The need to build more homes, more quickly, has not changed. If anything, the pressure has intensified. However, the conversation around Modern Methods of Construction has evolved.
I’m sure we’ve all been there: the client wants to refurbish their flat roof areas, and “Oh, while you’re at it, could you install a timber deck area where our staff could have barbecues and maybe a ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
A number of years ago, while working with a specialist roofing contractor, I was required to accompany an architect and building surveyor onto a large industrial roof to undertake a detailed ...
NBS Technical Author Charles Stirling discusses the hazards of moisture penetration in external walls and potential ways to avoid or correct problems.
Emerging from his loft space, NBS Technical Author, Charles Stirling, discusses the problems arising when building physics does not receive adequate attention in pitched roof construction or ...
Multi-layer insulation blankets have recently been added to NBS section P10. NBS Technical Author, Charles Stirling, strips back the layers to reveal his findings on their uses and efficiency.
NBS Technical Author, Charles Stirling, passes on his knowledge of vapour permeable membranes. Not forgetting their application in Scottish rigid sarking constructions gained in his experience north ...
Although still widely cited for the specification of roofing underlays and membranes, the much loved BS 747 was withdrawn in July 2007. It has been replaced by BS EN 13707 and BS 8747. The European ...
The ever increasing levels of thermal insulation required by thermal regulations can result in a higher risk of condensation forming on those elements not enclosed by this insulation, e.g. roofing ...
An erstwhile colleague once commented: “Why would you want to specify a roofing material which makes perfect nesting material for most of the local wildlife and could go up like a two bob rocket if a ...