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.
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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.
Collaborative specification writing
Background This article illustrates how a specifier can use NBS Chorus to collaborate with a manufacturer to produce a complex specification.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Here’s a question for you, a quick thought-experiment: What is the first product you can think of that you know millions of people will still be buying and consuming in ten years from now?
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - January 2020 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to ten tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Making the most of Masters
It wouldn’t make sense to write all these clauses from scratch at the start of every new specification, especially if you’re beginning with a blank page for each project. Equally though, there’s risk ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Uniclass 2015 - October 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to seven tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Specifications and classification
One of the questions most commonly asked of NBS is what the differences are between structuring specifications by Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) and Uniclass 2015.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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A more concise output format for specifications
NBS Chorus and customer-led development
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
NBS and Autodesk - the story so far
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Uniclass 2015 - July 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015, and includes updates to eleven tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
BIM and collaboration across the project team
In early 2018, Multiplex internally mandated the use of BIM and digital construction on all new projects, regardless of client requirements. We decided that this level of commitment was the only way ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Uniclass 2015 - April 2019 update
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass 2015 and includes updates to seven tables, and the publication of two new tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Common Data Environments
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
