This article outlines a framework for good practice for the specification of modular construction projects, encompassing design integration, performance standards, compliance, digital processes, and lifecycle considerations.

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.

We're recapping 2025 at NBS, from advancing best practice and delivering new sustainability tools, to driving industry conversations at the Construction Leaders' Summit. Find out what you might have missed this year...

The UK’s evolving water scarcity challenges demand a more strategic approach to managing consumption across the built environment. This article explores the regulatory landscape and best-practice principles, as well as the system, performance and product clauses available in NBS Chorus to help specifiers embed water-efficient design from the outset. 

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 refurbishment of flat roof areas can be complicated, and is made more difficult by different roof levels; access; waterproofing choices and more. This article, from our technical authoring team, explains the extensive guidance and detailed specification clauses available in NBS Chorus to help you deliver a successful outcome.

A guide from our technical authors, for architects and building services engineers.

NBS Source is a library of hundreds of thousands of systems and products from construction product manufacturers. Within this library, there are over 1000 different Gypsum board partition systems from many different manufacturers. Partitions are amongst the most specified items of any building. We therefore recognize that it is not easy for designers to quickly and accurately find specific partitions that meet their performance requirements.

Biodiversity net gain (BNG) is now a requirement in planning, making biodiversity a core design priority. This article explores how effective specification enables landscape architects and other professionals to meet BNG targets, integrate ecological goals into project delivery, and ensure long-term environmental and placemaking success.

At NBS, we're focused on both our own emissions and developing content and features for sustainable specification. Here are some of the changes we’ve been making to support smarter, lower-carbon design decisions.

This article is about the rules concerning placing construction products on the market in the United Kingdom. It has been written in light of the EU Construction Product Regulations 2024 (CPR 2024) being published. It also looks at the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR 2024), which was published earlier in 2024 and shares similar sustainability and digitalisation objectives.

Writing clear and concise specifications is crucial on construction projects. A well-structured specification is not only essential for design success but can also prevent delays, unexpected costs and disputes. Here are five essential tips to help you get it right, from our Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing.