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.
NBS’s launch of the US Master Specification (USMS) library
1. NBS - a global platform When launching NBS Chorus in 2019, we set out to create a best-in-class specification platform that worked with pre-written content libraries for building projects around ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to seven tables, and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
UniclassClassification
Sustainable housing
Defining sustainable development There are two widely-accepted definitions of what constitutes sustainable development:
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Sustainable Outcomes and Building Services Engineering
NBS is the official specification and product data partner of CIBSE. The partnership brings together a wealth of information, content, and resources from both organisations, providing support ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
New in development - NBS Chorus Designer
1. Better coordinated design and specification One of the most popular features of NBS Chorus is the ability to plug the platform into design tools such as Autodesk Revit, Graphisoft Archicad or ...
Design and SpecificationProduct update
Uniclass - July 2022 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to nine tables, and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
UniclassClassification
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RIBA Plan of Work
The RIBA Plan of Work This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Uniclass - April 2022 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to eight tables and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
How does Uniclass support interoperability?
How does Uniclass support interoperability? The classification of ‘things’ is integral to the successful delivery of interoperable data, allowing information to be organized and easily retrieved. To ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass tables - explained
Uniclass is published digitally in a set of tables, logically structured to support various classification needs for asset management, infrastructure operations, and built environment lifecycle ...
UniclassClassification
What is Uniclass?
What is Uniclass? Uniclass is a unified classification system for the built environment covering all sectors and roles, delivered by NBS.
UniclassClassification
NBS Chorus for those that write contract Preliminaries
Within the NBS Chorus software platform we have developed content packages that are tailored to specific user requirements. For example, users can subscribe to separate libraries for ‘architectural’, ...
