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 ...
By 2034/35, almost 20% of Australians (6.2 million) are projected to be aged 65 or over. One sector already feeling the impact of the ageing population is construction. In Queensland, the number of ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Image: Illustration of pressure sensing bacteria in soils from the ‘Computational Colloids Project’. Carolina Ramirez-Figuroa, Luis Hernan and Martyn Dade-Robertson, CC BY-SA
Four months after UK’s referendum on our future in Europe, I would like to invite you to take part in a follow-up NBS survey about the future of our sector.
Six months after the Government’s deadline, how well is BIM Level 2 working in practice? And, with the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy's planned £15m investment in Level 3, ...
Considering BIM implementation? Not sure who or what to believe? Don't let fear and falsehoods hold you back. Here we debunk 10 of the most common misconceptions around Building Information Modelling ...
Introducing BS 8536-2: 2016. The BIM Level 2 suite of documents now includes a code of practice for asset management.
The building blocks of tomorrow are being thought about in the classrooms and innovation labs of today. A whole new generation of construction material innovations are set to shape the buildings we ...
The common data environment (CDE) is a central repository where construction project information is housed. The contents of the CDE are not limited to assets created in a ‘BIM environment’ and it ...
Probably one of the most frequently asked questions from anyone working on a BIM project is “How much information should be in my model, or how much information am I expected to provide?”
Retention is essentially money promised that is held back by the client to ensure themselves against contractor failure. Usually, retention is set at 3% or 5% of the total work value. That money is ...
One of the key benefits of BIM is the ability to spot 'clashes' at an early stage in your project where they should be much easier, cheaper and less time consuming to rectify.
London has been ranked as the fifth most sustainable city in the world in the 2016 Arcadis Sustainable Cities Index.