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.
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
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 ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
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 ...
Our guests – Giles Meredith from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and James Ritchie from the Association of Project Safety (APS) – discuss the role of CDM coordinators, including how and when they should be appointed, how one judges competency, and how existing risks such as lead paint should (and should not) be handled.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
One of the many undoubted benefits of BIM is its inherent ability to reduce the potential for disputes arising from clashing programmes and design details. However, by highlighting a landmark case in ...
Following a number of recent major fires on construction sites, Neil Storkes, NBS Technical Author and Architect, summarizes the requirements of the CDM Regulations, current fire legislation and HSE ...
In the concluding part of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
Architectural standards of communication and the way we have produced information in the past have been ingrained in our minds for many years as a standard to the method of delivering information in ...
From March to April 2012, we at NBS ran our first survey about contracts and legal issues within the UK construction industry. We ran the survey to understand, amongst other things:
In the first of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
"Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours..." ...according to the theme tune of a popular TV programme. Never is this maxim more relevant than when construction work is proposed. The UK ...
If the construction industry's attitude towards the environment today is compared with that of 25 years ago, it is apparent that modern practices have more empathy with natural materials. Industry ...
There are some events that we all remember, as if they are engraved in our minds: events so significant that we remember the dates that they occurred and where we were when we heard about them. The ...
An understanding of how sound behaves in modern offices, and how to control excessive airborne sound, or noise as it then becomes known, is essential. Through the use of computer modelling, noise ...
Following the release of Oscar Newman's book "Defensible Space: Crime Prevention through Urban Design" in 1972, the idea that architecture could be used to limit criminal activity became popular. ...