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 ...
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 ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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 ...
This programme will allow leading legal commentators to explain the finer points and lessons learned in recent legal cases.
This is a studio interview referencing a number of contracts BUT because of the level of complexity, detail and range, we will only look at some of the headline issues while recommending that people refer to NBS and the documents themselves. This programme will be a potential taster.
Dr Stephen Hamil, Director of Design and Innovation at NBS, gives his thoughts on BIM Show Live 2014... There was a strong NBS presence at the fourth annual BIM Show Live 2014. This year the location ...
The first International BIM Survey, carried out by NBS and international partners, has revealed that UK consultants who do not adopt Building Information Modelling (BIM) could struggle to secure ...
The countdown to the 2015 general election is about to begin. With 13 months to go, the parties are busily finalising their manifestos. Meanwhile the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
Despite the presence of a pair of high pressure gas mains which cross North Northumberland from North to South, the route of which can be identified by swathes cut through woodland and red and white ...
In the late 1950s, more than a decade after the war and not long after the rock and roll explosion, Britain embarked on a house-building programme the like of which we have never seen before or since.
Given that the main purpose of the Chancellor’s budget day task is actually to balance the books, it’s perhaps not surprising that in monetary terms, there’s rarely much that could be said to be ...
The BIM Protocol, published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in February 2013, whilst not the only BIM Protocol available, is likely to be heavily used on level 2 projects for the ...
In April 2011, January 2012 and September 2013, NBS published articles which discussed the status of Building Regulations Approved Documents A and C with respect to the use of Eurocodes and British ...