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.
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and NBS
The proposed Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM) came into effect on 6 April 2015.
Standards and Regulations
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Alistair Kell, Director of Information and Technology, BDP, looks at ways of managing the level of detail produced by a multi-disciplinary design team within a BIM project.
Digital Transformation
Building Regulations - England (March 2015) - What's changed?
A raft of changes have been made to the England regulations and their Approved Documents (ADs) as of March 2015. Here we summarise the key changes.
Standards and Regulations
What is the NBS National BIM Library?
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source.
Digital TransformationVideo
Understanding BIM in a project management environment
Although the use of BIM is most commonly associated with the design team, it is in the field of project management where it perhaps has its most long-term application. For whereas design team ...
Digital Transformation
UK productivity - how the construction industry can help
The UK economy is in an odd position. Globally, its current rate of growth is impressive; among the G7, the UK is the leader in annual GDP growth. Over the next two or three years we expect growth ...
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Case study: Bridlington Leisure World
The need for accurate and up-to-date specifications East Riding of Yorkshire Council is in the early stages of a project to replace the aging Bridlington Leisure World. The new, multipurpose facility ...
Design and SpecificationSpecification
Construction hard hats
Whether involved in building or civil engineering projects, work at onshore or offshore industrial sites, or an occasional visitor, the hard hat – or safety helmet – is an essential item of safety ...
Health and Safety
Lighting Technology – Building in Efficiency
We will visit Hoare Lea’s new offices, where they have invested heavily in new designed lighting systems and techniques that enhance energy use and lower costs, while providing a better psychological environment for staff.
Construction ProductsVideo
Berlin's Museum for Architectural Drawing
This new gallery for architectural drawings, designed by German/Russian practice SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov recently won the ar+d awards in the UK. It is a small 500m² gallery in Berlin, ...
Design and SpecificationVideo
New NBS National BIM Library website launched for designers
The NBS National BIM Library website has had a complete makeover. Find out how it helps designers and specifiers discover BIM content more easily.
Digital Transformation
One Angel Square
Designed by 3DReid and engineered by Buro Happold, the Co-op’s recently opened £100m headquarters in Manchester, 1 Angel Square, has a BREEAM ‘outstanding’ rating.
