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.
The NBS National BIM LIbrary and your projects
Offering free high-quality downloadable BIM objects, both proprietary and generic, since its launch in 2012 the award-winning NBS National BIM Library has become an essential source of digital ...
Digital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Each year, the NBS National BIM Report presents the findings, across the UK construction industry, regarding BIM attitudes and adoption. However, looking a little deeper at the findings, we can see ...
Digital Transformation
Letter of Intent
Intent or not, the Letter of Intent (LoI) is not intended as an alternative to a binding contract where the parties have clearly expressed and agreed their terms.
Contracts and Law
Funding better flood defences
As the clear up operations, dredging and repairs get underway following the torrential rainfall that submerged much of the UK at the start of 2014, the construction industry waits to hear how much ...
SustainabilityClimate change
4 key points from the NBS National BIM Survey 2014
In the UK, through BIM, we are at the forefront of a significant change in how buildings are conceived, designed, built and maintained. This change has the potential to bring improved efficiencies ...
Digital TransformationNBS National BIM Report
BIM and CDM - a perfect fit?
The Construction Design and Management Regulations (CDM) are currently under review, with a public consultation exercise having recently closed. The government proposal is to allow the Regulations to ...
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
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Sporting sustainability
2014 saw a glorious summer of sport, with the FIFA World Cup in Brazil, the annual Wimbledon championship, the Tour de France descending on Yorkshire, and the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
SustainabilitySports grounds
The AIM 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 TransformationPAS 1192-2
Flood mitigation solutions in buildings (1/3)
Barely a year seems to pass nowadays without flooding being a feature of the national news. It is an emotive subject due to the degree of devastation it can cause – not only can severe flooding ...
SustainabilityClimate change
Uniclass 2: An update
Tables out for comment At the time of writing, Uniclass2 tables at www.cpic.org.uk/uniclass2 are still out for comment, strictly speaking, and have been since early 2012. We (CPI and NBS) receive ...
UniclassClassification
Integrated Project Insurance (IPI) Model
Introduction Integrated Project Insurance (IPI) is one of the new models of procurement being trialled by the Government; the new models are aimed at achieving up to 20% savings in Government ...
Contracts and Law
Building Regulations: Changes to Part L
Approved Document Part L Conservation of fuel and power has been updated. The latest – 2013 – versions came into force in April 2014 and this programme gives you a heads-up on some of the key ...
