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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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.
Can we secure a sustainable future for Olympic venues?
By playing host to one of the world’s biggest sporting events Olympic host cities have the opportunity to kick-start significant programmes of investment and change. Change that not only delivers the ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
PAS 2080 is the first publicly available specification in the world that specifically addresses managing carbon in infrastructure.
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Designing the rural: A global countryside in flux
Designing the rural: A global countryside in flux Guest Edited by Joshua Bolchover, John Lin and Christiane Lange The rise of the megalopolis has prompted us to yearn for the countryside and ...
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BRE study provides hot data on cool air trends
A new BRE report sheds important light on electricity usage by air conditioning in UK offices and retail environments.
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The expos and conferences you have to attend in 2016
With half the year over we round up the best conferences, exhibitions, expos and networking events still to come that can add value to your working life....
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EU Referendum Survey - the findings
On 23 June, the UK electorate expressed its desire to leave the EU. What this means for the construction industry generally, and for the design profession in particular, is unclear.
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Social responsibility and the construction industry
If you stop and think about it, the impact the construction industry has upon society is immense: the built environment that we create influences both the physical and psychological wellbeing of the ...
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EU Referendum Survey
Following the UK’s referendum on our future in Europe, I would like to invite you to take part in an NBS survey about what the result means for our sector.
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£10,000 bounty for digital solutions to cone zone catastrophes
The average British motorist is said to spend 30 hours a year stuck in traffic. Staring at the snarl up ahead it’s only natural that drivers start to question whose bright idea the works were and why ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Elevation’s new sensation: thyssenkrupp look to take a towering lead in lift market
Our urge to reach for the skies and create ever-taller buildings shows no signs of abating but our lofty ambitions have always been limited by the need to get people up and down the structures. The ...
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The problem with reinforced concrete
By itself, concrete is a very durable construction material. The magnificent Pantheon in Rome, the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome, is in excellent condition after nearly 1,900 years. And ...
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Still time to nominate your Principal Designer of the Year
As we've discovered in our recent series looking at changes to the Construction Design and Management regulations, the Principal Designer plays a crucial role when it comes to influencing how risks ...
