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.
Starting out in practice: The proposition
At the start of 2015 there were a record 5.4 million private sector businesses in the UK according to the government – up 146,000 on the previous year, and almost two million more than at the turn of ...
Starting out in practice
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Education sector showcases Green Gown sustainability
The finalists in this year's Green Gown Awards have just been announced by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EUAC).
Sustainability
The interactive Periodic Table of BIM
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Digital TransformationPeriodic Table of BIM series
£10,000 bounty for digital solutions to cone zone catastrophes
The average British motorist is said to spend 30 hours a year stuck in traffic. Staring at the snarl up ahead it’s only natural that drivers start to question whose bright idea the works were and why ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Elevation’s new sensation: thyssenkrupp look to take a towering lead in lift market
Our urge to reach for the skies and create ever-taller buildings shows no signs of abating but our lofty ambitions have always been limited by the need to get people up and down the structures. The ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Student expectations shaping university estates
Universities are inexorably linked with the myriad of buildings and locations that make up their estate. Whether it’s the quadrangles of Cambridge or the Brutalist concrete of the environmental ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
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Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations 2015 - The roles and responsibilities
Health and safety is of paramount importance when it comes to construction projects and the Construction (Design and Management) or CDM regulations are designed to ensure that these issues are ...
Standards and RegulationsGovernment policy
Construction Design and Management (CDM) Regulations 2015 - What's changed?
Health and safety is of paramount importance when it comes to construction projects and the Construction (Design and Management) or CDM regulations are designed to ensure that these issues are ...
Standards and RegulationsGovernment policy
Digital Construction Week on the right tracks
Digital Construction Week is set to return this October and organisers are working with the teams behind some of the biggest construction and infrastructure projects the UK has ever seen, with ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
'New tradesmen' are the future of UK construction
Research by construction industry insurers AXA reveals that a new generation of tradesmen and women is arising. Far from being short on skills, these younger people are bringing a greater diversity ...
Design and SpecificationVR and AR
Charter for steel construction BIM compliance launched
British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) steelwork contractors are now able to demonstrate compliance with Level 2 Building Information Modelling (BIM) with the launch of the Steel ...
Digital TransformationConstruction Products
The key ingredients of BIM
You can find more information (and download full versions of the documents referenced) on the BIM Level 2 website , launched earlier this year to become a one-stop-shop when it comes to standards, ...
