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.
Nanotechnology in architecture
Significant uses of nanotechnology have surfaced in the last few years with applications for architectural design and the construction of built environments.
Construction ProductsVideo
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
As we prepare to adopt the BIM working process in most public sector contracts by 2016 with hopefully similar up take by private sector clients, it is worth having a look at the legal issues that may ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
Developments in construction classification
Construction Project Information (CPI) and RIBA Enterprises ran a couple of workshops on the forthcoming changes to Uniclass, in Manchester and London on January 31 and February 3 respectively. The ...
UniclassClassification
NBS National BIM Report 2012
NBS's National BIM Survey has been released and reveals the latest BIM adoption figures.
Digital TransformationNBS National BIM Report
New broom sweeps in at DECC
Just last week (7 February 2012) the government published the most up-to-date data on UK greenhouse gas emissions. Things don't look too good: despite a dip in emissions in the previous year due to ...
Sustainability
BIM and the UK Construction Strategy
David Philp, Head of BIM Implementation at the Cabinet Office and BIM Programme Director at Balfour Beatty, takes a look at the UK Government Construction Strategy and what 2012 has in store for ...
Digital TransformationGovernment policy
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Sports ground reuse
The tourists have gone, normal television service has resumed and official merchandise fills up the bargain bins. With the summer 2012 Olympics now over, it is hoped that a lasting legacy will be ...
Design and SpecificationSports grounds
CIBSE Building Services Conference - BIM and Engineering Services
I was invited to take part in panel discussion at the CIBSE Building Services Conference on BIM and service engineering, which took place on in London on 9 and 10 October 2012.
Digital TransformationConstruction Products
New procurement methods coming to a project near you
Introduction Procurement has been defined as 'obtaining by purchase, lease or other legal means, plant machinery, equipment, materials, services and works required by an organization'.
Government policyContracts and Law
Revising ISO 12006-2:2001
In this article from 2012, John Gelder here considers the Uniclass parent standard, ISO 12006-2, now being revised. John is on the ISO/TC 59/SC 13/WG 2 Task force, as the UK expert (reporting to BSI ...
Classification
Part L: questions answered
Tom Gregory, head of Energy Services, Chiltern Dynamics , answers frequently asked questions about air tightness testing as required under Approved Document L.
Standards and Regulations
Nails and screws
In this exclusive extract from NBS Shortcuts , written by noted industry figure Austin Williams, we discuss the difference between fixings and fastenings.
