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.
Sustainability
NBS Guide: Embodied Carbon Calculations
Learn how to align your carbon assessments with BIM workflows. This guide to Embodied Carbon Calculations, developed by NBS and Circular Ecology, sets out a practical, standardised approach to calculating the embodied carbon of building materials and products, and how to apply this data to BIM objects.
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The hidden cost of compliance: why architects are demanding a new era of product transparency
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 ...
Design and Specification
Brick slip cladding systems – the need for robust specification
This article from the NBS technical team outlines specification for brick slip technology, including history, technology, design, safety and testing.
When product data creates risk, AluK delivers the clarity and support architects need
The need to build more homes, more quickly, has not changed. If anything, the pressure has intensified. However, the conversation around Modern Methods of Construction has evolved.
What is the PAS 1192 framework?
A series of PAS documents set out the requirements for achieving BIM Level 2 by establishing a framework for collaborative working and information requirements.
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
In January 2016 a research conference was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi on the theme of smart cities.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What is a federated Building Information Model?
A federated model is a combined Building Information Model that has been compiled by amalgamating several different models into one (or importing one model into another).
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What are BIM objects?
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What is the Government Construction Strategy?
Influential reports as far back as the 1930s have highlighted the problems inherent in the construction industry but it wasn’t until 2011 that they proffered a solution that could deliver the step ...
Digital TransformationGovernment policy
The dangers of silica dust
What is silica? Silica is the common term used for the mineral compound silicon dioxide (SiO2), and it is one of the most common naturally-occurring elements in existence. Silica comes in two forms: ...
Construction ProductsHealth and Safety
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Funding boost puts augmented reality to work for construction
Following implementation by Crossrail’s contractor Laing O’Rourke, which saw Soluis’ In-Site AR asset management tool demonstrate its benefits and feasibility onsite, Soluis is now developing the ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What are safety briefings and toolbox talks?
Those who commission, design, construct and operate buildings have obligations to control the risks that those using the facilities might reasonably incur both during the construction and operation ...
Standards and RegulationsHealth and Safety
Have your say in the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2017
I’m pleased to invite you to take part in our fourth survey covering construction contracts used during the past 12 months.
Contracts and LawNBS National Construction Contracts and Law Surve
Greening the concrete jungle: How to make environmentally friendly cement
Cement is the world’s most widely used material apart from water, largely because it is the key ingredient in concrete, the world’s favourite building material.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
2017 Timber Scorecard
The scorecard covers key sectors such as construction and home-builders as well as paper / printing and publishing, general retailers and furniture retailers.
SustainabilityConstruction Products
Data exchange on BIM projects: What are data drops?
Construction is a 'team sport' with a multitude of different disciplines coming together (at various stages) to work on the delivery of a project.
