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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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.
10 ways to make the most of your visit to this year's Digital Construction Week
This year’s Digital Construction Week offers the chance to meet the Government’s Digital Built Britain core team; join workshops and clinics covering everything from BIM to VR/AR; while checking out ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Two new European standards for the design and manufacture of lifts were introduced in August 2014 - EN 81-20: 2014 and EN 81-50: 2014.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What is the BuildingSMART data dictionary?
Construction is an industry awash with technical terms, understanding which of these terms have parity of concept and which are distinct (however subtly), is at the heart of clear communication.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Advances in Smart Cities
In January 2016 a research conference was held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi on the theme of smart cities.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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 are BIM objects?
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
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Funding boost puts augmented reality to work for construction
Following implementation by Crossrail’s contractor Laing O’Rourke, which saw Soluis’ In-Site AR asset management tool demonstrate its benefits and feasibility onsite, Soluis is now developing the ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Greening the concrete jungle: How to make environmentally friendly cement
Cement is the world’s most widely used material apart from water, largely because it is the key ingredient in concrete, the world’s favourite building material.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Should you be specifying home battery solutions?
According to the Solar Trade Association the number of solar panels being installed in the UK has fallen by more than 80%, with a withdrawal of subsidies and hikes in business rates being blamed.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Tomorrow's world today at Digital Construction Week 2017
Digital Construction Week returns to the Capital for a two-day event on 18 and 19 October.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
What actions for construction in the Industrial Digitalisation Review interim report?
The construction industry’s inefficiencies are well documented. Too much time, money and resource is often spent in exchange for far too little in return. The painful truth is that industry often ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
10 North East buildings opening their doors for the Heritage Open Days festival
This September a range of spaces and places normally off-limits to the general public fling open their doors. If you're coming to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to check out the Old Post Office, home to NBS, why not take in some of these other top attractions?
