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.
Must Reads
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.
Uniclass 2015 - January 2017 update
Uniclass 2015 is a dynamic classification for the construction industry. Our latest update features minor changes to six core tables in response to user requests.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The strategy will deliver reductions in whole-life costs and carbon emissions, while improving productivity and capacity by using intelligent building information models, sensing technology and ...
Digital Transformation
What does the term soft landings mean?
The term soft landings refers to a strategy designed to make an easy transition from the construction to occupation phases of a project with the overriding aim of realising optimal operational ...
Digital Transformation
Heat in non-domestic buildings: Help unlock carbon and bill savings
The Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) sees significant potential for savings from heat, cooling and energy efficiency within the different non-domestic sectors (public, ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Windows, glass, glazing - a brief history
Windows From our earliest times, the need for light has been central to our needs as humans. Letting light into a cave or crude structure allowed its inhabitants to better perform tasks and navigate ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard - Metadata Requirements
Last time we looked at Exploring the NBS BIM object standard - Functional, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 5: Metadata Requirements.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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What colours are safety helmets (hard hats) on construction sites?
What are the safety helmet colours from January 2017 onwards? Safety helmet colours on Build UK members' sites should adhere to the following colour scheme on all new (and existing, where ...
Health and Safety
Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard - Functional Requirements
Last time we looked at Exploring the NBS BIM object standard - Geometry, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 4: Geometry Requirements.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Discount code for money off BIM Show Live 2017 tickets
BIM Show Live is back for 2017 and you can secure your tickets at an exclusive discounted price.
Digital Transformation
BIM deliverables
This article is part of the Getting started with BIM series brought to you in association with Graphisoft.
Digital TransformationGetting started with BIM
Why construction needs smart contracts
Smart contracts are required to meet the needs of Digital Built Britain, whose report recommends that “The time has come for the construction sector to reform by seizing the opportunities offered by ...
Contracts and Law
Free data from docs and come together to reap the rewards of BIM
What is it about this thing called BIM? Here we are, at the end of the year in which the UK government BIM mandate was implemented. Six years after Paul Morrell’s BIM Strategy was outlined and five ...
