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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Introduction Integrated Project Insurance (IPI) is one of the new models of procurement being trialled by the Government; the new models are aimed at achieving up to 20% savings in Government ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
This programme will allow leading legal commentators to explain the finer points and lessons learned in recent legal cases.
This is a studio interview referencing a number of contracts BUT because of the level of complexity, detail and range, we will only look at some of the headline issues while recommending that people refer to NBS and the documents themselves. This programme will be a potential taster.
Given that the main purpose of the Chancellor’s budget day task is actually to balance the books, it’s perhaps not surprising that in monetary terms, there’s rarely much that could be said to be ...
The BIM Protocol, published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in February 2013, whilst not the only BIM Protocol available, is likely to be heavily used on level 2 projects for the ...
Public procurement is one of the major items of expenditure for purchasing authorities in Europe and an important element of the European Single Market. We take a look at what’s new...
The CIOB's Complex Projects Contract 2013 (CPC2013) permits employers to manage their own risks in projects which, by their nature, are sufficiently complicated that they cannot be managed ...
The NBS Contracts and Law Survey indicates that one of the areas that participants found difficult in international projects was the use of unfamiliar contract forms. This article by Koko Udom, ...
When Adjudication was first introduced, it was seen as a low cost, quick fix method of resolving construction disputes. However, over the 17 years since its introduction, it has developed its own ...
When Adjudication was first introduced, it was seen as a low cost, quick fix method of resolving construction disputes. However, over the 17 years since its introduction, it has developed its own ...
The recent case of Parkwood Leisure Limited v Laing O’Rourke Wales and West Limited considered whether a collateral warranty amounted to a “construction contract” for the purposes of the Housing ...
Following the success of the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012, we ran our second survey in this area from June to July of this year.