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
A specifier’s guide to BREEAM New Construction V7
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
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.
Free data from docs and come together to reap the rewards of BIM
What is it about this thing called BIM? Here we are, at the end of the year in which the UK government BIM mandate was implemented. Six years after Paul Morrell’s BIM Strategy was outlined and five ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Building Information Modelling: What information is in the model?
Probably one of the most frequently asked questions from anyone working on a BIM project is “How much information should be in my model, or how much information am I expected to provide?”
Digital Transformation
Bamboozled by BIM terminology?
Many people embarking on a BIM project for the first time find the new terminology, number of acronyms, and amount of documents required, quite daunting, confusing and seemingly overly complicated. ...
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
Comment : No more 'pseudo BIM' please
Ralph Montague, a qualified architect and Managing Partner at ArcDox , argues that "pseudo BIM" is having a negative effect at precisely the time we should be encouraging true BIM adoption...