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 ...
Picture this You’re a designer in construction, and you work for months designing a facility; spending time not only making sure that every element is considered but how they all work together. You ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
This is the latest in the updating programme and includes updates to five tables. Between updates, we liaise regularly with a growing number of individuals and organisations using the tables, to ...
If you got the opportunity to visit the Great Exhibition of the North you might have seen Steve Mayes' brilliant exhibition at the Mining Institute.
As an artist, Ben Staves has an interesting way of seeing the world - one that'll take you by surprise if you spot his prints on a friend's wall or at a local market.
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
In Great Britain alone, there are an estimated 12,000 lung disease deaths each year linked to past exposures to dust at work.
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
In the NBS Discover events, we saw a number of innovations in how construction information can be collaboratively created, managed and shared, through the life of a building.
We held almost 20 ‘roundtables’ across the four Discover events. In each discussion there was a mix of architects, technologists, landscape architects, engineers and surveyors. Some worked in large, ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
The way design practices operate is changing, and a major reason for this is digital technology. But exactly how are architects and other designers responding to the opportunities and challenges new ...
The August issue is the latest in the Uniclass 2015 updating programme. The Uniclass 2015 tables were last updated in April 2018. Between updates, we liaise regularly with a growing number of ...