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.
New build homes to get superfast broadband
The Government has worked with Openreach - BT’s local access network business - and the Home Builders Federation (HBF) on an agreement which aims to deliver superfast broadband connectivity to new ...
Design and SpecificationGovernment policy
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Alternative housing: a different approach to materials, styles and community thinking (Part two)
Great Britain is in a housing crisis. Everywhere you look, some version of that headline is making the rounds. In some places, it’s a daily conversation. Of course, as we all know, it’s not just a ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
The future will be built on open data - here's why
Data has the power to revolutionise and disrupt the way societies are governed. None more so than open data, which is free to access, free to use and can be shared by anyone. It’s non-personal and ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Alternative housing: a different approach to materials, styles and community thinking (Part one)
Great Britain is in a housing crisis. Everywhere you look, some version of that headline is making the rounds. In some places, it’s a daily conversation. Of course, as we all know, it’s not just a ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
Ecobuild partners with NBS to curate Digital Building Theatre
Ecobuild has partnered with NBS, the knowledge management arm of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), to create a dedicated Digital Building Theatre at this year’s event. The theatre ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Ecobuild 2016 : What's on?
Ecobuild 2016 presents a mix of suppliers that offer thousands of new and innovative products and services as well as offering a programme set to inspire, educate and solve your every day challenges. ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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The new theNBS.com
Today marks a new chapter in the life of theNBS.com as we launch our new site that puts the foundations in place for us to provide you with a better service.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Getting around the new theNBS.com
Welcome to the new theNBS.com site.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Creating the 'smart cities' of the future
The prospect of the ‘city of the future’ has long tantalised designers, writers and film makers alike. From the utopian ideals of the Italian Futurists to the dystopian rain-drenched canyons of ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Retrofit insulation (2/2)
Introduction Besides the continual drive to build new dwellings to ever most stringent thermal performance requirements, running in tandem is the push to improve the existing building stock. This ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The NBS guide to façade greening (3/3)
This time, we investigate the performance of the façade greening systems mentioned in previous parts, with reference to a range of recent research projects.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Retrofit insulation (1/2)
Introduction Besides the continual drive to build new dwellings to ever most stringent thermal performance requirements, running in tandem is the push to improve the existing building stock. This ...
