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.
Keeping the faith
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 ...
Contracts and Law
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
'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 ...
Contracts and LawThe Construction Act - One year after
Realising the potential of BIM
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 ...
Digital Transformation
Survey on amendments to the Construction Act
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 ...
Contracts and LawSurveys
Engineering the Sainsbury Laboratory
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 ...
Design and SpecificationVideo
Using Uniclass 2
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.
Design and SpecificationUniclass
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Building pathology: Safety during surveys
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 ...
Health and Safety
BIM legal issues from a practical perspective
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 ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
What's going on in the world of BIM?
Building Information Modelling has been one of the most talked about topics of 2012. The movement from fragmented information, held by different people at different points in the construction ...
Digital TransformationNBS National BIM Report
Co-ordinating Common Arrangement, Uniclass, NBS and Rules of Measurement
NBS Technical Author, Roland Finch, sheds light on changes to classification and rules of measurement. Are we heading for coordination or conflict?
UniclassClassification
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012
The Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012 came into force on 6 April 2012 (superseding the 2006 version) leading to additional requirements involving how asbestos-related work is notified and recorded and setting out a new need for 'medical surveillance'.
AsbestosVideo
Design incorporating work at height
The programme is a studio-based interview with architect and CDM-co-ordinator Paul Bussey from Scott Brownrigg. Against the backdrop of the current Working at Height Regulations, Paul sets out the dangers and explains the delicate balance that architects must strike between giving clients what they want and ensuring that those constructing and maintaining the building do not face unreasonable levels of risk while carrying out their work.
