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.
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
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 ...
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015. It includes updates to eight tables.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Specifications for architecture, engineering, landscape, and the built environment give construction teams a detailed overview of the project work, required performance, and product selections. This ...
What is BIM? BIM is a process for creating and managing information on a construction project throughout its whole life cycle. As part of this process, a coordinated digital description of every ...
What is BIM? BIM is a process for creating and managing information on a construction project, throughout the project’s life cycle. As part of this process, a coordinated digital description of every ...
Over the last year, we’ve hosted a wide range of webinars covering everything you need to know about the construction industry.
Getting more from your NBS subscription Although NBS Chorus is about helping you work on your projects more efficiently and effectively, your subscription comes with many more features that you can ...
Earlier this year, NBS hosted a webinar on the theme of holistic specification of materials, presented by Taleen Josefsson, Thrive Project Leader at Chetwoods. In this article, Taleen provides ...
Background NBS Chorus includes the essential features needed to produce high-quality specifications in the cloud. The Chorus Pro level of subscription includes an enhanced set of features which ...
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015. It includes updates to eight tables.
Our Common Future, the Brundtland Report Our Common Future is the 1987 publication by the World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) credited for introducing the concept of sustainable ...
From the first versions of NBS, connecting specification writers with construction product manufacturers has always been a big part of what we do. In the 1970s, this was purely in the form of a ...
As seen in this specification example, specification plays a crucial role in every successful project, providing a clear representation of the built asset and creating a continuous, thorough, ...