NBS Chorus

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Find out how NBS is helping manufacturer PPG Architectural Coatings to expand its offering to specifiers, leading to right first time specifications and stronger working relationships. 

Mulroy Architects is on a mission to improve lives with beautiful, life-long and sustainable architecture. We caught up with Director Andrew Mulroy to find out how the company’s move from NBS Scheduler to NBS Chorus is helping the practice to use the power of the cloud to specify more collaboratively.

In this article, NBS Innovation Director Dr. Stephen Hamil examines how construction clients are increasingly recognizing the importance of having a consistent approach to specifications on projects across their business.

Here's what we learned from our recent webinar on collaborative specification writing...

Multi-discipline engineering design consultancy Hydrock told us how NBS Chorus helps them work more collaboratively for more efficient and consistent results. 

Adler and Allan are one of the leading UK environmental risk reduction and emergency response specialists. They carry out assessments and design solutions to environmental risks on 22,000 sites each year across the UK. We caught up with Project Engineer, Jason Carter-Smith, to find out how the business have utilised NBS Chorus and the benefits it has brought them. 

As we enter another lockdown, we’ve highlighted a few webinars that proved extremely popular and useful during the first two lockdowns.

Find out how international real estate consultancy Hollis has benefitted from transitioning to NBS Chorus during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the NBS training team helped.

J Foster Architects is a London-based practice founded by Jeremy Foster, that predominantly delivers small residential projects such as conversions, extensions and renovations. The practice has used the NBS Building software for many years but has recently migrated to NBS Chorus Small Works. Dr Stephen Hamil, NBS Innovation Director, caught up with Jeremy to find out more about his NBS Chorus experience.

Many smaller practices work on less complex construction projects. While there is no universal definition of what a ‘small works’ project is, it is generally characterized by being simple, using straightforward methods, and it is typically procured following a traditional methodology.

When working on basic construction projects, where the work is of a simple nature, then typically this work will be undertaken using a ‘small works’ standard form construction contract. Generally speaking, contracts for small works do not support the use of bills of quantities as pricing documents because the extra cost of preparation is not usually justified when the level of detail is not required.