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.
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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.
The Power of Fuel Cells
This programme looks at the requirements, the timetable, and action points to help prepare for yet more legislation!
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Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Dominated for more than 100 years by light industry, the 2.5 km2 site was contaminated and its waterways choked. Beginning with the ODA's head of infrastructure, Simon Wright, we learn about the scale of the task faced by Atkins, the firm charged with leading what was to become the most comprehensive enabling works ever undertaken in the UK.
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Working with Historic Iron and Steel Structures
This programme tracks developments from ironwork to steelwork.
Construction ProductsVideo
Biomass
An explanation of the different types of fuel that can be classed as biomass and a comparison with oil and gas in terms of the volume of carbon dioxide emissions produced and cost per kilowatt hour.
Construction ProductsVideo
Fire Stopping
High profile fires like the one at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009, re-emphasise the fundamental importance of fire safety measures. This programme takes a look at principles of fire safety, ...
Standards and RegulationsFire safety
Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design
Eurocode 7 is Europe's first geotechnical design code to share a common philosophy with the design methodology for structures.
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Unlocking the Real Value of Waste
Unlocking the value of the UK's waste will require investment of at least ten to twenty billion pounds in infrastructure over the period to 2020. That was the main conclusion of a recent study into ...
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Flood Risk - The Impact on Property
In this programme we look at the impact of flood risk on the value and insurability of property.
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Non-Domestic Energy Performance Certificates
If you are building, selling or letting a non-domestic building, before practical completion can be granted the new occupier or owner must be supplied with an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) ...
Construction ProductsVideo
Design Opportunities through CDM
Just over a year ago, the updated and revised CDM Regulations came into force. The aim of the change was to provide more clarification and detail, leaving less room for debate! In this programme ...
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Eco-towns - folly or inspiration?
Last summer, before the recession was confirmed, the Government committed £8 billion to delivering 3 million new homes by 2020. Part of this overall target is an increase in the supply of affordable ...
SustainabilityVideo
Damp and condensation
With rising damp almost eliminated in English housing, condensation is now the major source of unwanted dampness in homes. It can lead to mould growth, health issues for occupants and additional maintenance costs. This programme looks at the conditions that give rise to condensation, its impact upon dwellings, and what can be done to rectify its negative effects. It also addresses different forms of condensation, discussing surface and interstitial condensation.
