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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 ...
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, ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
One of the best-known standard form contract clauses appears in the NEC suite of contracts. This is clause 10, which states that the Employer, the Contractor, the Project Manager and the Supervisor ...
'Everybody has won and we all must have prizes...' Dodo - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland In December 2011 we were completing the update of our industry leading NBS Contract Administrator to ensure ...
Faithful+Gould, through their role on pioneering projects such as HMYOI Cookham Wood for the Ministry of Justice, the first UK Government BIM early adopter project, are embracing the opportunity to ...
The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform had estimated in 2008 that it would take approximately three years after its commencement for the amendments to the Act 'to bed down and to ...
Stanton Williams' Stirling Prize-winning Sainsbury Laboratory is a state-of-the-art facility for Cambridge University. This programme looks at how the Sainsbury Laboratory was built. It examines the ...
Uniclass2 is nearing the final version of its first iteration, so it is time to look at how it might be used. John Gelder, Head of content development and sustainability, explores the issue.
A number of years ago, while working with a specialist roofing contractor, I was required to accompany an architect and building surveyor onto a large industrial roof to undertake a detailed ...
With every new seminar, conference and article the construction industry comes closer to the 2016 date for the full implementation of 'Level 2' BIM in government projects. In this article Nunelah ...