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.
PI insurance
This programme will cover a range of issues: from the basic explanation of PI and the differentiation between PI and other forms of professional insurance cover; to claims' case studies and examples of the type and extent of your professional duties and responsibilities and the extent of cover required.
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Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
BIM and its potential to support sustainable building
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been advocated for its potential delivery of more innovative, cost-efficient buildings through more integrated information and collaboration. Yet the inherent ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Can't pay. Won't pay
In this series of role plays – based on real life experiences – we will examine a number of commonly encountered problems and will give you tips on how to deal with them.
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Devolution of Wales and split of Building Regulations powers
Seperation of England and Wales Building regulation powers were devolved to Wales on 31 December 2011. The Building Regulations Advisory Committee for Wales (BRACW) will advise the Welsh Ministers on ...
Standards and Regulations
NBS Sustainability Survey 2012
Richard Waterhouse, CEO, NBS and RIBA Enterprises introduces the 2012 NBS Sustainability Survey...
SustainabilitySurveys
IFC / COBie Report 2012
The Government is committed to Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the use of open-standard data so that the construction industry can deliver greater value and be more efficient. The ...
ReportsDigital Transformation
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An introduction to Uniclass 2
To understand Uniclass2 let's start by considering what a classification system is. One of the simplest and most effective classification systems in use today is the system adopted by the dictionary. ...
Standards and RegulationsUniclass
Embedding sustainability
In 2013 architects face uncertainty in volumes of work, but steadily increasing demand for more sustainability in outcomes, i.e. built environment projects that deliver economic and social value, and ...
SustainabilityGovernment policy
The BIM Protocol - what's next?
As is well known, the Government wants the majority of its service providers to be using 3D BIM to what is known as Level 2 by April 2016. Level 2 requires the presentation of data in specific, ...
Digital Transformation
Oral contracts and adjudication
The one mantra that aptly describes the intention behind the introduction of statutory adjudication is 'pay first and argue later'. It captures the intention of parliament to ensure that cash flow in ...
Contracts and LawTendering
Payments under the amendments to the Construction Act
In a keynote speech to a DTI conference in 2005, the Hon Barry Gardiner MP commented on a report in the press which claimed that SMEs spent the equivalent of more than 14 years chasing payment.
Contracts and LawThe Construction Act - One year after
A seismic shift in the wrong direction
Back in February 2012, Melanie Thompson of Get Sust! wondered what, if anything, the new chief at DECC would deliver. It took a while to build up steam, but by the end of the year Ed Davey's ...
