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.
Starting out in practice: The business case
If you’ve ever contemplated setting up your own business then this new series could be just what you need to get the cogs turning. In the coming weeks we’ll be exploring all aspects of going it alone ...
Starting out in practice
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
On 23 June, the UK electorate expressed its desire to leave the EU. What this means for the construction industry generally, and for the design profession in particular, is unclear.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Mugs for mugshots
Time's running out to grab an exclusive limited edition Periodic Table of BIM mug! Stefan Mordue is a man who lives in a world of BIM-fuelled colour. As architect of the Periodic Table of BIM, the ...
Digital Transformation
Starting out in practice: The proposition
At the start of 2015 there were a record 5.4 million private sector businesses in the UK according to the government – up 146,000 on the previous year, and almost two million more than at the turn of ...
Starting out in practice
Social responsibility and the construction industry
If you stop and think about it, the impact the construction industry has upon society is immense: the built environment that we create influences both the physical and psychological wellbeing of the ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Education sector showcases Green Gown sustainability
The finalists in this year's Green Gown Awards have just been announced by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EUAC).
Sustainability
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EU Referendum Survey
Following the UK’s referendum on our future in Europe, I would like to invite you to take part in an NBS survey about what the result means for our sector.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The interactive Periodic Table of BIM
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Digital TransformationPeriodic Table of BIM series
£10,000 bounty for digital solutions to cone zone catastrophes
The average British motorist is said to spend 30 hours a year stuck in traffic. Staring at the snarl up ahead it’s only natural that drivers start to question whose bright idea the works were and why ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Elevation’s new sensation: thyssenkrupp look to take a towering lead in lift market
Our urge to reach for the skies and create ever-taller buildings shows no signs of abating but our lofty ambitions have always been limited by the need to get people up and down the structures. The ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The problem with reinforced concrete
By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in excellent condition after nearly 1,900 years. And ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
JCT Contracts 2016 and NBS
Eagle-eyed users of NBS specification tools may have noticed that the Joint Contracts Tribunal (JCT) issued a press release in February heralding a new 2016 edition of the JCT family of standard ...
