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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
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 ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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, ...
The catastrophic consequences of fire taking hold cannot be underestimated. Taking time to develop a robust risk assessment and identifying the most suitable firefighting equipment is likely to be ...
London and Bristol are Britain’s leading “smart cities”, according to new research commissioned by Huawei UK and conducted by Navigant Consulting.
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Urban flooding represents the most common yet severe environmental threat to cities and towns worldwide. Future changes in rainfall extremes are likely to increase this threat, even in areas that ...
The windows of the future could be made from transparent wood according to Swedish researchers.
Towards the end of 2014 and into early 2015, the team here at Ecoprod became increasingly aware of the ‘BIM Movement‘, as I like to call it, primarily through our contact with architects and ...
Since May 2015, leading UK provider of innovative and design-driven bathroom solutions, Ideal Standard International , has partnered with NBS to host its Building Information Modelling (BIM) objects ...
Bruynzeel Storage Systems is a Dutch manufacturing company with sales offices in nine European countries, and more than 30 dealerships worldwide, so writes Andy Duck, the company's Marketing and ...
My first thoughts on hearing about BIM (Building Information Modelling) were: how is this going to work?, so writes Vicky Evans, Managing Director at Twinfix . A great concept in theory, but how will ...