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 ...
Emerging from his loft space, NBS Technical Author, Charles Stirling, discusses the problems arising when building physics does not receive adequate attention in pitched roof construction or ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Modelling Six years ago I saw BIM as a technology, another program like Revit, Archicad and Microstation, or merely a piece of software to be learned, implemented and harvested. While in essence this ...
Whether or not one accepts that waste and inefficiency accounts for 30% of the turnover of our sector, there are statistics that indicate that we replace only 1% of our building stock annually, ...
John Lorimer, Capital Programme Director, Corporate Services, at Manchester City Council explores the advantages of Business Information Modelling...
How many articles and posts do you read that include a definition along the lines of "BIM provides a 3D model of a building"? BIM is driving change but we should improve industry understanding of ...
Tendering is the process by which bids are invited from interested contractors to carry out specific packages of construction work. It should adopt and observe the key values of fairness, clarity, ...
The programme explains the properties of lime (including how it differs from Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC)) and how it is used in today's construction industry, particularly in mortars, renders and ...
Construction leaders have spoken: lack of clear leadership, over-complexity in carbon reduction policies, and a failure of government departments and the building industry to work together, are ...
Since Studio Klaschka was formed in 2001 most practices have started to consider or are already beginning to use one of the various flavours of BIM software that are now available. When Studio ...
Author Geoffrey C Pitts B.Arch (Hons) M.Phil and advisory editor TRADA Technology's Robin Lancashire offer an extract from TRADA Technology's new best practice guide, Low energy timber frame ...
The construction industry has a reputation for lacking innovation and being slow in its adoption of new technologies. This represents a challenge to companies who need to innovate to remain ...
This programme explains the workings of ProCure21+; why it has replaced the old ProCure21 model, and; how these changes in procurement may affect healthcare design.