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.
Uniclass 2015 - April 2020 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015. It includes updates to five tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
RIBA Plan of Work 2020 Overview – Question and answer
In April 2020 Dale Sinclair, Director of Technical Practice at AECOM gave a presentation giving an overview to the RIBA Plan of Work 2020. Following the session, a number of questions were raised by ...
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How to work remotely with NBS Chorus
Cloud-based: Chorus is based entirely online, meaning you can access it anywhere. Whether you’re in the office, your home office, or the living room couch, all you need is an internet connection and ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What is The Golden Thread?
The Building Safety Bill is being developed as part of the new safety regime to prevent any events similar to the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people in 2017. It will overhaul existing ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - January 2020 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to ten tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What is a specification for construction?
What are architectural specifications? A specification is a detailed description of the dimensions, construction, workmanship, materials etc., of work done or to be done on a project, prepared by an ...
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Uniclass 2015 - October 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to seven tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - July 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to eleven tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - April 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015 and includes updates to seven tables, and the publication of two new tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - January 2019 update
The latest changes to Uniclass 2015 include updates to the Entities, Spaces, Systems and Product tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Video: ISO 19650 - A global opportunity
Following the publishing of the ISO 19650 series of standards for BIM, we invited Paul Shillcock to NBS HQ to present to the North East BIM community.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Seeing the city: Mindfully
Ben Channon has worked at London-based Assael Architecture for over six years, adding his expertise to a number of different projects.
