Our top webinars in 2025
In 2025, we hosted dozens of free events and webinars throughout the year to help construction professionals keep pace with regulatory change, sustainability expectations and digital transformation. We’re rounding up the most-watched NBS webinars, in case you missed them.

Fig. 1 - The discussion panel for The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects

The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects

The Building Safety Act is often discussed in the context of higher risk buildings, but this webinar stood out because it tackled the reality most designers and contractors face: how the act affects all projects. 

The session brings together experts from architecture, construction, and manufacturing to explore practical challenges faced by small and medium businesses and offer their guidance on navigating the evolving regulatory framework. 

It’s essential viewing for understanding key dutyholder roles, new Building Control approval processes and how your peers and competitors are adapting.

 

“I think this was one of the most informative and well structured panel discussions I have attended. Everything was relevant and applicable.”

 

Watch now: The Building Safety Act for Everyday Projects

Fig. 2 - The Best Practice Guide to Specification

Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing

In 2025, we published our Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing, to help architects, engineers, and construction professionals enhance their approach to specification. 

More than 2,700 people registered to attend this webinar live, reflecting a strong understanding of the importance of specification writing in preventing project delays, unexpected costs, contract disputes and litigation. 

The session walks through what good specification writing looks like in practice. It explains how clarity, consistency and structure support safer buildings, smoother procurement and better collaboration across the project team. 

Importantly, it includes experts from NBS, AHMM and Galliford Try sharing practical tips from their decades of combined experience in specification writing, to help you improve outputs immediately. 

 

“A valuable insight into the guide document and how it has been set out. I found the section highlighting the discussion on differences between descriptive performance & prescriptive specifications and when which type should be used within which context particularly beneficial.”

 

Watch now: Best Practice Guide to Specification Writing

Measuring Sustainability: The Role of LCA and EPDs 

Sustainability claims are no longer enough. Clients, regulators and investors increasingly expect detailed assessments, backed by evidence.

This webinar gained strong traction because it gives a clear overview life cycle assessment and environmental product declarations, their importance to unlocking sustainability and challenges the industry faces in conducting assessments.   

The expert-led session demystifies the steps involved in carrying out LCAs and measuring embodied carbon, the crucial role manufacturers play in providing product data, and how we’ve been improving NBS Source and NBS Chorus to support better sustainability measurement and reporting. 

 

“The information was very useful, providing a clear overview of how LCA and EPDs contribute to sustainability measurement in construction and infrastructure projects.”

 

Watch now: Measuring Sustainability: The Role of LCA and EPDs 

Fig. 4 -The Digital Construction Report 2025

Digital Construction Report: The Results

The Digital Construction Report, now in its 15th year, provides a snapshot of how the construction industry is adapting to technological shifts.

This webinar explored the dramatic shift towards AI - more than two in five construction professionals now use AI tools, and almost three in five worry about being left behind without digital adoption. 

The session examines the trends which emerge from the report, around BIM maturity, data confidence, the use of digital tools for environmental assessment, and growing digital anxiety across the sector.  

It is an honest reflection of both progress and friction in construction, grounded in real survey responses from over 550 industry professionals. 

 

“It gave a good insight into what we need to be aware of and how we can develop our own digital approach...”

 

Watch now: Digital Construction Report: The Results

 

Why these webinars matter 

Together, these four sessions reflect the issues shaping construction today: safer buildings, clearer information, measurable sustainability and digital progress. The strong interest in these topics shows a clear appetite amongst construction professionals for practical guidance, grounded in everyday work.

If you are looking to strengthen competence, reduce risk and make better informed decisions, these webinars remain highly relevant.  

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