Building Safety Act

Whether you missed these sessions the first time, or want a second viewing, here is a round-up of our most popular webinars from 2025, covering topics like building safety, best practice and measuring sustainability.

The NBS Construction Leaders’ Summit 2025 brought architects, specifiers, and building product manufacturers to explore how digital transformation, sustainability, and building safety are reshaping the built environment. This article explores key insights from the event, spanning data strategy and AI to safety, ethics, and regulation, revealing how the industry is moving from aspiration to action and from compliance to collaboration.

The recent NBS webinar 'The Building Safety Act: Revisited' was chaired by Richard Waterhouse, Non-Executive Director of the British Board of Agrément (BBA). It brought together experts from architecture, construction, manufacturing, specification and the Building Control authority itself to discuss compliance with the building safety regime.

From new sustainability initiatives and achieving carbon neutrality, to launching the new RIBACPD.com and developing our NBS platforms to support compliance with the Building Safety Act, it’s been a busy year. As ever, we’re focused on helping to build a better construction industry.

Revisit the Construction Leader’s Summit 2024 event and get up to date with the industry’s key events in this NBS recap.

Discover the biggest topics at the Construction Leader’s Summit 2024 to stay ahead of the industry’s latest developments in this article from NBS.

NBS recently hosted a roundtable discussion forum in London to talk to specifiers about industry trends and how they may impact the world of specification. In attendance were architects, engineers and quantity surveyors, who prepare specifications for practices of varying sizes.

The new building safety regime, with the Building Safety Act at its foundation, applies to all construction projects subject to Building Regulations in England*. In summary, it will ensure that the documentation process underpinning the design, construction and maintenance of buildings is ‘done properly’.

Producing better specifications may be the key for architects and specifiers who need to reduce risks across every area of a construction project. Are you giving your specification process the attention it needs?

Recap Dame Judith Hackitt’s excellent speech on upcoming changes to the Building Safety Act and what they mean for specifiers and manufacturers with NBS.

The specification is one of the key deliverables of any architect, however, is sufficient attention being given to the specification process to guarantee its effectiveness in mitigating risk?

The Building Safety Act is vital legislation that imposes specific requirements on duty holders regarding the safety and integrity of buildings. While it has implications for all building types, the focus is on safeguarding higher risk buildings.