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.
TalkBack: Patrik Schumacher on Parametricism
Patrik Schumacher, partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, has recently come to prominence with his ideas on parametricism.
Design and SpecificationVideo
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The replacement of the old British Standard BS 6651 with BS EN 62305 will have a significant impact on the design and installation of lightning protection structures. This programme explains why the ...
Construction ProductsVideo
Understanding sound
This programme looks at the various ways of subduing noise in buildings.
Design and SpecificationVideo
Code for Sustainable Homes – Health and wellbeing
This programme takes a look at 'Health and wellbeing' – Category 7 in the Code for Sustainable Homes. This category is formed of four parts – daylighting, sound insulation, private space (gardens, patios, etc), and lifetime homes – all of which are explained in the context of Code for Sustainable Homes credits.
SustainabilityVideo
Classic case law - 3
Four classic cases including Reinwood v L Brown and Sons (2008), Henry Boot Construction v Alstom Combined Cycles (2000), Independent Broadcasting Authority v Emi Electronics (1980), Victoria ...
VideoContracts and Law
Service charge recovery
Commercial property landlords have a duty to maintain, repair and keep in good working order the common parts of the premises. The cost of meeting this obligation is recovered by the landlord through ...
VideoContracts and Law
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The London Brownfield sites database
The London Development Agency (LDA) and the Homes and Communities Agency (HCA) have launched a new, mapped database of London's brownfield land called The London Brownfield Sites Database (LBSD).
Construction ProductsVideo
Rising damp
RICS damp expert Stephen Boniface defines the commonly accepted definition of rising damp before both he and fellow guest, Jeff Howell, claim ‘true’ rising damp doesn’t exist.
Design and SpecificationVideo
BIM Implementation - HOK buildingSMART
When discussing the topic of Building Information Modelling (BIM), people often ask me, “So this BIM thing you describe, is it a shrink wrapped software solution?” Let me start by saying “you can’t ...
Digital Transformation
David Philp: Implementing a Company-wide BIM Strategy?
On Friday 16 September, NBS held its first BIM conference in conjunction with NLA at The Building Centre in London. This special event brought more than 200 construction professionals together to ...
Digital TransformationVideo
Paul Fletcher: BIM – Collaboration and Integration
Inspiring BIM presentation from RIBA Construction Strategy Group chair Paul Fletcher. To many, Paul was the star performer of the NBS BIM Conference. Tweet of the day of the day was
Digital TransformationVideo
JCT 2011 contracts
The 2011 editions of the JCT contracts reflect amendments to the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration (HGCR) Act 1996 by Part 8 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction ...
