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.
Must Reads
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.
Constructing the 2013 Serpentine Gallery
The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by architect Sou Fujimoto, is a metallic mesh of 27,000 bits of steel joined together to give the impression of a light, cloud-like structure.
Design and SpecificationVideo
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The Scale Lane swing bridge over the River Hull opened to the public in July, the result of a 2007 design competition won by London-based architects McDowell+Benedetti, engineer Alan Baxter ...
Design and SpecificationVideo
WRAP - Recycling and Waste Reduction
The government's Strategy for Sustainable Construction (published in June 2008) aims to reduce waste from construction, demolition and excavation (“CD & E” waste) to 50% of 2008 figures by 2012. ...
SustainabilityVideo
NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2013
Following the success of the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012, we ran our second survey in this area from June to July of this year.
Contracts and LawNBS National Construction Contracts and Law Surve
Fire safety and solar electric and photovoltaic systems
A look at the potential fire risks that might be associated with solar electric and photovoltaic systems.
Health and Safety
Does the Duty of Good Faith have any place in English contracts?
Most English lawyers learned 'at their mother's knee' that English law – in contrast to many other legal systems – has no overarching principle of good faith and that (generally) no duty to act in ...
Contracts and Law
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Improving collaborative construction contracts
Encouraging and improving collaborative working in the UK construction industry has been a recurring theme for over 10 years. While there have been improvements in this time, our most recent survey ...
Contracts and Law
PPC: The natural home for BIM and collaborative working
Partnering, both on single and multiple projects, has delivered exceptional results, but it requires planning and depends on changes in behaviour that many people find challenging. Collaborative ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
Breaches of planning control: the law
What constitutes a breach of planning control and how are they remedied? In this programme planning lawyer Linda Russell guides us through the topic looking at the concept of lawful development and ...
VideoContracts and Law
Unstabilised rammed earth
As well as looking at the properties of rammed earth, or pise, this programme asks whether concrete should be added as a stabiliser, the issue of cost, and along the way we look at some high-profile failures and successes.
SustainabilityConstruction Products
Building Regulations Approved Document M 2013 - a mass of minor changes
The 2013 edition of Approved Document M (AD M), which came into use on 6 April, does not introduce major changes in guidance, rather it addresses changes in other parts of Building Regulations and in ...
Standards and Regulations
BIM for all - dummies or not!
What is BIM? A quick internet search brings to mind an old tale...
