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 ...
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 ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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 ...
The NBS National BIM Library have now published a number of generic mechanical and electrical BIM objects. These will help building services engineers visualise their designs and implications at ...
Ahead of this year’s BIM software updates, NBS explores the current software in use and the likelihood of upgrading to the latest version.
Towards the end of 2013, NBS held a research day with many of the construction industry's leading BIM advocates to review the NBS National BIM Library and determine its next steps. The day was ...
Public procurement is one of the major items of expenditure for purchasing authorities in Europe and an important element of the European Single Market. We take a look at what’s new...
The CIOB's Complex Projects Contract 2013 (CPC2013) permits employers to manage their own risks in projects which, by their nature, are sufficiently complicated that they cannot be managed ...
The NBS Contracts and Law Survey indicates that one of the areas that participants found difficult in international projects was the use of unfamiliar contract forms. This article by Koko Udom, ...
This is the final part of an eight-part series of articles, Climate Change Adaptation in Buildings, examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made ...
This is the seventh in an eight-part series of articles, Climate Change Adaptation in Buildings, examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to ...
This is the sixth in an eight-part series of articles, Climate Change Adaptation in Buildings, examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to ...
Solutions In the last article, the background and issues concerning the problems of flooding in buildings were examined. At a whole-building level, preliminary issues such as building siting and ...