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.
Sustainability
NBS Guide: Embodied Carbon Calculations
Learn how to align your carbon assessments with BIM workflows. This guide to Embodied Carbon Calculations, developed by NBS and Circular Ecology, sets out a practical, standardised approach to calculating the embodied carbon of building materials and products, and how to apply this data to BIM objects.
Must Reads
The hidden cost of compliance: why architects are demanding a new era of product transparency
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 ...
Design and Specification
Brick slip cladding systems – the need for robust specification
This article from the NBS technical team outlines specification for brick slip technology, including history, technology, design, safety and testing.
When product data creates risk, AluK delivers the clarity and support architects need
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.
How design and specification can help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals
September 2023 marks eight years since the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) were adopted globally. The schema, which comprises 17 goals, focuses on a holistic approach to ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
A review of the Draft Building Safety Bill, and what it will mean for construction product manufacturers
So what is the draft bill? To directly quote the Rt Hon. Robert Jenrick MP from the Bill’s introduction: ‘The Bill will introduce a new era of accountability, making it clear where the responsibility ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Review: 'Building a Safer Future'. The governments response and reformed building safety regulations.
As we heard from Dame Judith Hackitt at the recent NBS Construction Product Leaders’ Summit. The new regulator will be the HSE (Health and Safety Executive) and is confirmed in this publication. The ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
BIM and the manufacturer: Ideal Standard
Since May 2015, leading UK provider of innovative and design-driven bathroom solutions, Ideal Standard International , has partnered with NBS to host its Building Information Modelling (BIM) objects ...
Digital TransformationNational BIM Report 2016 for Manufacturers articl
