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.
Fire risk during construction - design and specification implications
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 ...
Design and SpecificationSpecification
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
In the concluding part of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
BIM: A change in the design process?
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 ...
Digital Transformation
NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012
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:
Contracts and LawNBS National Construction Contracts and Law Surve
An historic building day (1/2)
In the first of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
Building works and neighbours
"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 ...
Contracts and Law
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Earth Bricks
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 ...
Sustainability
Sports ground safety
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 ...
Health and SafetySports grounds
Acoustic treatment in offices
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 ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
Secured by Design
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. ...
Design and SpecificationVideo
Intelligent proprietary specification
As part of the series of BITESized talks at the RIBA Village auditorium at Ecobuild 2013, Clair Hillier of RIBA Enterprises discusses intelligent proprietary specification.
Design and SpecificationVideo
Working with NBS National BIM Library content
We as designers are constantly searching for better content to improve our BIM libraries. At long last someone has stepped up to the challenge to create some standard content and what NBS have ...
