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.
Telecoms Law
Interviewed in the studio, Jonathan Small QC and Oliver Radley-Gardner of Falcon Chambers consider the important topics in current telecoms law. They discuss the issues surrounding the leasehold ...
VideoContracts and Law
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The programme looks at who counts as a contractor, their responsibilities under the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 and under other health and safety legislation. Allison Connick, Director of Safety and Environment for CB Richard Ellis, talks us through the issues.
VideoHealth and Safety
CDM 2007
Whether you are a client, designer, engineer or contractor, your CDM responsibilities are about to change. New regulations, effective from April 2007, update the 1994 version of the Construction Design and Management Regulations. This programme looks at the main changes from the perspective of client, designer, principal contractor and the new role of CDM co-ordinator.
VideoHealth and Safety
The Surveyors' New Black Book
Under its Rainbow Standards initiative, the RICS has created a suite of colour-coded guidebooks that provide a set of minimum professional standards: red for estate managers, blue for residential surveyors, purple for facilities managers and now, a Black Book for QSs. This programme explains the reasoning behind the Black Book.
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LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes)
This programme explores the reality behind the hype, explaining how LEDs work, outlining their history and providing a detailed discussion of the qualities of LEDs within six key categories.
Construction ProductsVideo
CDM for Designers
The changes to the CDM Regulations have been in force since April 2007. This programme examines what these changes mean for designers.
VideoHealth and Safety
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How do you Develop Professional Safety Skills?
Competence in health, safety and welfare risk management issues is a key part of becoming a chartered civil engineer.
VideoHealth and Safety
Stress, Bullying and Harassment in the Workplace
We’ll be looking at the legal duties that employees could use as a basis for a stress claim against their employer and in particular the law relating to bullying and harassment. This will include an update on the recent changes to the Sex Discrimination Act concerning harassment.
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Regenerating the former Ebbw Vale steelworks
The UK’s long industrial history means that there is a substantial legacy of former industrial land ripe for regeneration. South Wales was once an area synonymous with heavy industry – with the plant ...
Design and SpecificationVideo
Building Information Modelling video
The programme places BIM in its context as a technical response to attempts to increase coordination in architectural design, outlining the JCT's recent Constructing Excellence Contract and ...
Digital TransformationVideo
Jacob Mehus talks about Building Information Modelling
In this exclusive interview conducted at the 2009 International Construction Information Society (ICIS) conference, RIBA Enterprises CEO Richard Waterhouse interviews Jacob Mehus, Director of ...
Digital TransformationVideo
Maartin van Hezik talks about Building Information Modelling
In this exclusive interview conducted at the 2009 International Construction Information Society (ICIS) conference, RIBA Enterprises CEO Richard Waterhouse interviews Maartin van Hezik, Managing ...
