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.
Wood
You'd be hard pressed to find a more enduring construction material than timber. It's (potentially) sustainable, impressively durable and its flexibility and aesthetic qualities have made it a go-to ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Green space - how much is enough, and what's the best way to deliver it?
Half of the world’s people now live in urban areas.This creates competition for resources and increases pressure on already limited green space.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
What is IFC?
What is IFC? Industry Foundation Classes, or IFC for short, is a global standard used to describe, share and exchange construction and facilities management information.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
The latest construction industry research and analysis, free from NBS
NBS National BIM Report 2017 The annual NBS National BIM Report is now recognised as one of the industry’s most comprehensive reviews into the use of BIM. Now in its seventh year, the latest report ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Designing and procuring an electronic access system
Identifying risks In order to procure an electronic access control system, you first need to understand the risks you are guarding against in order to develop the underlying requirements for that ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
Graphisoft ARCHICAD Library Part Maker
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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Uniclass 2015 - April 2017 update
The April 2017 Update features minor changes to seven tables in response to user requests, respecting the need for a period of stability and minimum change to assist adoption of the Uniclass 2015 ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Unlocking the secrets of street ambience
Our research uses global data to describe how to achieve the ideal functions of a main street. We have done this by developing a systems abstraction hierarchy, which allows a main street to be ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Take an Old Post Office tour
Back in March we offered visitors to our Facebook page an exclusive behind the scenes tour of our newly-refurbished office space.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Smart home and light market gains momentum
What are smart devices? A 'smart' or 'intelligent' device is an electronic device that's typically connected to the internet (and potentially a network of other smart devices) offering the potential ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
PAS 1192-6 shines light on hazards and risks
Described by some as 'BIM for Health and Safety' a new PAS, 1192-6, is now available in draft form and attempts to exploit the opportunities afforded by digital construction to deliver better health ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
ICE takes temperature of infrastructure sector's digital transformation
For all the talk about the digital construction revolution, what benefits are clients and end users actually seeing on the ground? Is digital construction providing a boost to productivity and ...
