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.
Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act 2009
Part 8 of the Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction (LDEDC) Act 2009 amends the adjudication and payment provisions in Part II of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration ...
Contracts and Law
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The benefits gained from Building Information Modelling (BIM) correspond to the quality and depth of information in the model. Dr Stephen Hamil explains how BIM is not just 3D CAD and how master ...
Digital Transformation
Point cloud surveys
For a recent issue of The Architects Journal, Dr Stephen Hamil was asked to provide a comment piece on "point cloud surveys". A copy of this is below....
Digital Transformation
BIM: a client/facilities management driven process
With BIM (building information modelling) comes the drive to provide greater efficiencies at all stages of the building lifecycle. If a client wishes to benefit from these efficiencies then they need ...
Digital Transformation
Classic Case Law
This programme takes an in-depth look at three classic cases in law - Donoghue v Stevenson (1932), Hedley Byrne v Heller (1964) and Murphy v Brentwood District Council (1991) - that have a direct ...
VideoContracts and Law
BIM: Building Information Modelling video
The programme places BIM in its context as a technical response to attempts to increase coordination in architectural design, outlining the JCT's recent 'Constructing Excellence Contract' and ...
Digital TransformationVideo
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Eurocode 1 - Actions on Building Structures
BS EN 1991, Eurocode 1: Actions on Structures provides information and guidance on all the actions that it's usually necessary to consider in the design of buildings and civil engineering structures. ...
Standards and RegulationsFire safety
Architectural Integration of Photovoltaics
This programme looks at the ways of incorporating photovoltaics into buildings and discusses the wider implications with regard to embodied energy – and economics.
Construction ProductsVideo
24 Degrees - Optimum Temperature?
This programme takes a look at two of the principal types of natural wastewater treatment systems.
Construction ProductsVideo
Getting Started with Eurocode 2
Eurocode 2 is the new standard for the design of concrete structures. It has been hailed as a robust and rigorous design code, taking a less prescriptive approach to design.
Standards and RegulationsVideo
NEC3 - Six Levels of Use
Last year, the Institution of Civil Engineers officially endorsed the New Engineering Contract for all construction work in the UK and overseas.
VideoContracts and Law
BS EN 1990 - The Key Eurocode
BS EN 1990, Eurocode: Basis of Structural Design, is the key design code for the structural Eurocodes. Material-independent, it is designed to be used with every Eurocode part for the design of new ...
