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.
Does the Duty of Good Faith have any place in English contracts?
Most English lawyers learned 'at their mother's knee' that English law – in contrast to many other legal systems – has no overarching principle of good faith and that (generally) no duty to act in ...
Contracts and Law
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Encouraging and improving collaborative working in the UK construction industry has been a recurring theme for over 10 years. While there have been improvements in this time, our most recent survey ...
Contracts and Law
PPC: The natural home for BIM and collaborative working
Partnering, both on single and multiple projects, has delivered exceptional results, but it requires planning and depends on changes in behaviour that many people find challenging. Collaborative ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
Breaches of planning control: the law
What constitutes a breach of planning control and how are they remedied? In this programme planning lawyer Linda Russell guides us through the topic looking at the concept of lawful development and ...
VideoContracts and Law
Enforcement: a short international survey
The false labelling of meat products (horsemeat being passed off as beef) has made the headlines recently in Europe, with repercussions from the UK to Romania. The food industry isn't the only one ...
Contracts and Law
Oral contracts and adjudication
The one mantra that aptly describes the intention behind the introduction of statutory adjudication is 'pay first and argue later'. It captures the intention of parliament to ensure that cash flow in ...
Contracts and LawTendering
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Payments under the amendments to the Construction Act
In a keynote speech to a DTI conference in 2005, the Hon Barry Gardiner MP commented on a report in the press which claimed that SMEs spent the equivalent of more than 14 years chasing payment.
Contracts and LawThe Construction Act - One year after
Keeping the faith
One of the best-known standard form contract clauses appears in the NEC suite of contracts. This is clause 10, which states that the Employer, the Contractor, the Project Manager and the Supervisor ...
Contracts and Law
Journey to the amendment of the Construction Act
'Everybody has won and we all must have prizes...' Dodo - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland In December 2011 we were completing the update of our industry leading NBS Contract Administrator to ensure ...
Contracts and LawThe Construction Act - One year after
Survey on amendments to the Construction Act
The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform had estimated in 2008 that it would take approximately three years after its commencement for the amendments to the Act 'to bed down and to ...
Contracts and LawSurveys
BIM legal issues from a practical perspective
With every new seminar, conference and article the construction industry comes closer to the 2016 date for the full implementation of 'Level 2' BIM in government projects. In this article Nunelah ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
The National Planning Policy Framework
The new National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) finally came into force in England on 27 March 2012 following a high profile battle between pro-development stakeholders and environmental ...
