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.
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 ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Introduction from NBS Since the launch of Uniclass 2015, we at NBS have been delighted with its adoption by industry. We have updated the system quarterly now for the last five years, and have ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Most countries have some ambition when it comes to setting an exemplar approach for the development of sustainable buildings. Here John Gelder, formerly of NBS and now a lecturer in Construction for ...
Tables out for comment At the time of writing, Uniclass2 tables at www.cpic.org.uk/uniclass2 are still out for comment, strictly speaking, and have been since early 2012. We (CPI and NBS) receive ...
This article provides a definition of renewable materials and considers some common characteristics – carbon sinks, flammability and biodegradability. It derives from PRO 10 Renewable resources: an ...
At Ecobuild 2013, John Gelder of RIBA Enterprises hosted a conversation with Sofie Pelsmakers of UCL and Architecture for Change, and Martin Townsend of BRE.
John Gelder, Head of content development and sustainability, contributed a chapter on BIM and FM to the new guide, BIM for the Terrified. This article is an extended version of that chapter.
It has been suggested by some that, rather than developing or implementing Uniclass2, we in the UK should switch to OmniClass, used in North America. John Gelder, Head of content development and ...
The false labelling of meat products (horsemeat being passed off as beef) has made the headlines recently in Europe, with repercussions from the UK to Romania. The food industry isn't the only one ...
Uniclass2 is nearing the final version of its first iteration, so it is time to look at how it might be used. John Gelder, Head of content development and sustainability, explores the issue.
Construction Project Information (CPI) and RIBA Enterprises ran a couple of workshops on the forthcoming changes to Uniclass, in Manchester and London on January 31 and February 3 respectively. The ...
In this article from 2012, John Gelder here considers the Uniclass parent standard, ISO 12006-2, now being revised. John is on the ISO/TC 59/SC 13/WG 2 Task force, as the UK expert (reporting to BSI ...
Proposed changes to the UK construction sector's classification system, Uniclass, are outlined by John Gelder, Head of content development and sustainability at RIBA Enterprises.