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 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 ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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 ...
As we've discovered in our recent series looking at changes to the Construction Design and Management regulations, the Principal Designer plays a crucial role when it comes to influencing how risks ...
Universities are inexorably linked with the myriad of buildings and locations that make up their estate. Whether it’s the quadrangles of Cambridge or the Brutalist concrete of the environmental ...
Straw bale construction first came to prominence in the mid-19th century in the USA as a cheap indigenous building material, and has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years as an ecological alternative ...
Health and safety is of paramount importance when it comes to construction projects and the Construction (Design and Management) or CDM regulations are designed to ensure that these issues are ...
Health and safety is of paramount importance when it comes to construction projects and the Construction (Design and Management) or CDM regulations are designed to ensure that these issues are ...
Digital Construction Week is set to return this October and organisers are working with the teams behind some of the biggest construction and infrastructure projects the UK has ever seen, with ...
Research by construction industry insurers AXA reveals that a new generation of tradesmen and women is arising. Far from being short on skills, these younger people are bringing a greater diversity ...
British Constructional Steelwork Association (BCSA) steelwork contractors are now able to demonstrate compliance with Level 2 Building Information Modelling (BIM) with the launch of the Steel ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
You can find more information (and download full versions of the documents referenced) on the BIM Level 2 website , launched earlier this year to become a one-stop-shop when it comes to standards, ...