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 ...
Liverpool Central Library and Archive reopened to the public in May 2013 after a £50 million refurbishment that took almost three years. The library was Britain’s first purpose-built public lending ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Professor Steve Lockley, Research Director at BIM Academy and Professor of Building Modelling at Northumbria University, looks at considerations around validating employers’ information requirements.
We’ve touched on the benefits of ‘living walls’ or ‘green walls’ before on theNBS.com but with summer hopefully just around the corner it felt like a good time to venture outdoors to explore two ...
The proposed Construction Design and Management Regulations 2015 (CDM) came into effect on 6 April 2015.
Alistair Kell, Director of Information and Technology, BDP, looks at ways of managing the level of detail produced by a multi-disciplinary design team within a BIM project.
Stefan Mordue, Architect and NBS Business Solutions Consultant, looks what levels of information are required at various stages of the BIM project lifecycle.
Ian Chapman, Director of the NBS National BIM Library, documents the benefits of a standardized approach when it comes to BIM objects and assesses the impact of the NBS BIM Object Standard.
Rob Manning, Government Soft Landings Lead, BIM Task Group, looks at what should be considered when completing Level 2 BIM...
The UK government has mandated that all centrally-funded work is to be undertaken using BIM by 2016. This is now less than 12 months away, and for those organizations that haven't yet done so, this ...
It is often said that variety is the spice of life, but the reality is that we live in a world that is defined by standards, many of which we take for granted.
A raft of changes have been made to the England regulations and their Approved Documents (ADs) as of March 2015. Here we summarise the key changes.
The UK government has mandated that all centrally-funded work is to be undertaken using BIM by 2016. This is now less than 12 months away, and for those organizations that haven't yet done so, this ...