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.
Sustainable Outcomes and Building Services Engineering
NBS is the official specification and product data partner of CIBSE. The partnership brings together a wealth of information, content, and resources from both organisations, providing support ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
1. Better coordinated design and specification One of the most popular features of NBS Chorus is the ability to plug the platform into design tools such as Autodesk Revit, Graphisoft Archicad or ...
Design and SpecificationProduct update
Five practical tips on coordinating project information and specifications
This article is from the RIBA Construction Contracts and Law Report 2022. It has been reproduced for the NBS website with added illustrations showing how NBS tools can be used to address the ...
Design and SpecificationNBS Source
Uniclass - July 2022 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to nine tables, and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
UniclassClassification
RIBA Plan of Work
The RIBA Plan of Work This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Level of detail (LOD) and digital plans of work
This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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Specification development and digital plans of work
This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Moving from linear to circular: incorporating circular economy thinking into the built environment
What is a circular economy? While sustainability has become a key topic in the construction and other industries, most of the world's economy still relies heavily on a linear "take, make, dispose" ...
The NBS approach to sustainable specification
What is sustainable specification? Sustainable specification is a specifying style that emphasizes responsibly selecting manufacturing and building methods, services, materials and products to align ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass - April 2022 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to eight tables and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
How does Uniclass support interoperability?
How does Uniclass support interoperability? The classification of ‘things’ is integral to the successful delivery of interoperable data, allowing information to be organized and easily retrieved. To ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
NBS Source and Uniclass
This article looks at the benefits of using the Uniclass classification structure when structuring manufacturer product information. It provides an insight into how NBS does this in the NBS Source ...
