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.
Seeing the city: Mindfully
Ben Channon has worked at London-based Assael Architecture for over six years, adding his expertise to a number of different projects.
Design and SpecificationSmart cities
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Hyperloop: Shaping the future of transport. Part 2
Previous: Hyperloop: Shaping the future of transport (part 1)
Design and SpecificationSmart cities
A Digital Future for the Construction Industry
Construction and Technology Arguably the biggest external factor influencing the construction industry is the world’s rising population. A recent World Economic Forum publication on the future of ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Hyperloop: Shaping the future of transport. Part 1
What is Hyperloop? In simple terms, Hyperloop is the process of transporting passenger or freight pods through a near vacuum tube at airline speeds using electric propulsion and magnetic levitation. ...
Design and SpecificationSmart cities
BIM Alliance Top take aways from 2018
Progression of BIM adoption and how it’s improving The NBS National BIM Report 2018 told us that almost three quarters of respondents are now using BIM, a 12% increase on 2017 which was the highest ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Value engineering - time to change our approach
Picture this You’re a designer in construction, and you work for months designing a facility; spending time not only making sure that every element is considered but how they all work together. You ...
Design and SpecificationProcurement
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Uniclass 2015 - October 2018 update
This is the latest in the updating programme and includes updates to five tables. Between updates, we liaise regularly with a growing number of individuals and organisations using the tables, to ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Seeing the city: Playfully
If you got the opportunity to visit the Great Exhibition of the North you might have seen Steve Mayes' brilliant exhibition at the Mining Institute.
Design and SpecificationSmart cities
Seeing the city: Artistically
As an artist, Ben Staves has an interesting way of seeing the world - one that'll take you by surprise if you spot his prints on a friend's wall or at a local market.
Design and SpecificationSmart cities
New NBS survey to map digital technologies
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
The problems with the construction industry - and how digitisation can help
In the NBS Discover events, we saw a number of innovations in how construction information can be collaboratively created, managed and shared, through the life of a building.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
NBS Discover roundtables summary
We held almost 20 ‘roundtables’ across the four Discover events. In each discussion there was a mix of architects, technologists, landscape architects, engineers and surveyors. Some worked in large, ...
