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.
contracts-and-law
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.
RIBA Building Contracts 2018 - What's new?
The Basics The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have published new “2018” versions of their two Building Contracts, originally released in November 2014. The contracts come in two ...
Contracts and Law
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Government strategies to decrease the production of carbon emissions
Through Government authority, policies can ensure that reducing carbon emissions is a matter of law and all within the UK must comply. Some of the objectives set out by the Government include ...
SustainabilityStandards and Regulations
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Design and SpecificationSustainability
The construction industry expos and conferences you have to attend in 2018
January February March April May June July August September October November December February 2018 28 February and 1 March BIM Show Live Where? Boiler Shop, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne What? Over the course ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Guidance for client data requirements
When it comes to specifying data requirements on construction projects many Asset Information Requirements (AIRs) can often be found wanting.
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
Who should host the Common Data Environment (CDE)?
Trant was engaged by the MOD as contractor for the Mid Atlantic Power Project, a £55 million project in respect of the construction of a power station in the Falkland Islands. Mott MacDonald was ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
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What is an Information Delivery Manual (IDM)?
To make BIM effective, information needs to be made available when it is needed and it must be provided to a satisfactory quality.
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
What is a federated Building Information Model?
A federated model is a combined Building Information Model that has been compiled by amalgamating several different models into one (or importing one model into another).
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What is the Government Construction Strategy?
Influential reports as far back as the 1930s have highlighted the problems inherent in the construction industry but it wasn’t until 2011 that they proffered a solution that could deliver the step ...
Digital TransformationGovernment policy
Have your say in the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2017
I’m pleased to invite you to take part in our fourth survey covering construction contracts used during the past 12 months.
Contracts and LawNBS National Construction Contracts and Law Surve
The BIM 'label' : Is the term still fit for purpose?
The construction industry is on a mission. A mission to get better project outcomes. A mission fuelled by better communication and sharing of information.
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
What is the CIC BIM Protocol?
The CIC Building Information Model (BIM) Protocol - Standard Protocol for use in projects using Building Information Models was published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in 2013.
