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.
Must Reads
design-and-specification
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.
design-and-specification
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.
If Sir Clive Woodward did construction
So the Rugby World Cup is here again. It is the culmination of four years’ work to ensure that the right team is operating at peak performance and to deliver on a shared objective - to lift probably ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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
Technology in the built environment
The utilisation of 3D authoring tools enables us to be adaptive to project needs and typology. Such tools are able to hold classification data (such as Uniclass and IFC). They can communicate with ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Our technology stack
Bond Bryan deals with BIM in two aspects: Architecture and Digital. Our Architecture team is primarily focused on the creation, sharing and coordination of information models, whilst our Digital team ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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BIM Development: Technology in the Built Environment
Earlier this year, we were offered the opportunity to present at the Discover NBS events in Edinburgh and Newcastle upon Tyne. The suggested theme of the presentation was our digital strategy. We ...
Architects, designers and engineers’ fundamental skills rely on their creative and technical abilities, but technology is increasingly changing the way that they work. Project success relies on their ...
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. ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Uniclass 2015 - January 2019 update
The latest changes to Uniclass 2015 include updates to the Entities, Spaces, Systems and Product tables.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Video: ISO 19650 - A global opportunity
Following the publishing of the ISO 19650 series of standards for BIM, we invited Paul Shillcock to NBS HQ to present to the North East BIM community.
