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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Windows From our earliest times, the need for light has been central to our needs as humans. Letting light into a cave or crude structure allowed its inhabitants to better perform tasks and navigate ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Last time we looked at Exploring the NBS BIM object standard - Functional, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 5: Metadata Requirements.
Last time we looked at Exploring the NBS BIM object standard - Geometry, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 4: Geometry Requirements.
What is it about this thing called BIM? Here we are, at the end of the year in which the UK government BIM mandate was implemented. Six years after Paul Morrell’s BIM Strategy was outlined and five ...
Uncertainty has been the watchword for 2016.
Last time we looked at Section 2: Information Requirements, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 3: Geometry Requirements.
Predictions are always notoriously difficult. This year they are trickier than ever. The UK is getting to grips with what Brexit will mean. Uncertainty persists and that’s likely continue in 2017 and ...
What is Medium? Launched in 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Medium is a publishing platform that features a uniform, minimalistic design that serves to put the writing in the spotlight.
The effects of the Brexit decision are still unfolding.
All material contains moisture to greater or lesser degrees. Those that are porous – concrete, mortar, wood – begin their life with their pores filled with water. As they dry, the water content drops ...
Last time we looked at Section 1: General Requirements, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 2: Information Requirements.
Autodesk's conference for those who design, build, make and create has drawn to a close, bringing the curtain down on a packed three day programme at The Venetian in Las Vegas, USA.