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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

Sustainable Futures UK Report 2026

Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.

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  • Construction Products

    Siderise: Helping to bridge the gap between Gateway 2 approval and on-site fire protection

    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 ...

  • RIBA CPD

    RIBA CPD for Architects: Understanding Flooring Specification and Detailing

    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 ...

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    Designing sustainability into construction – proof over promises in sustainable construction

    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 ...

Park Theatre by David Hughes Architects

"It's a wonderful design" - Sir Ian McKellan

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Reduce embodied carbon from the start

Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.

Constructing the 2013 Serpentine Gallery

The 2013 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, by architect Sou Fujimoto, is a metallic mesh of 27,000 bits of steel joined together to give the impression of a light, cloud-like structure.

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Scale Lane Swing Bridge, Hull

The Scale Lane swing bridge over the River Hull opened to the public in July, the result of a 2007 design competition won by London-based architects McDowell+Benedetti, engineer Alan Baxter ...

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The student experience: Placement with Gradon Architecture and NBS

When we started our placements at NBS, we had both signed up for a different sort of placement experience compared to our peers, who were mostly practice based. However our experience at NBS has been ...

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The race to Rio 2016

2 October 2009 was a game changing day for the country of Brazil: it was announced that Rio de Janeiro would be the host city for the 2016 Olympic Games, as well as having previously been awarded ...

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The Relevance of Ronan Point Today

Ronan Point, a tower block in east London which suffered a fatal partial collapse in 1968 due to a gas explosion, was a critical event that changed the way UK engineers considered robustness.

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PAS1192-2: new BIM standards

The Government has mandated that all construction companies tendering for Government work should achieve "Level 2" BIM by 2016.

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Crossrail

The programme also examines the economic worth of Crossrail and asks how the team will steer it through the planning departments of 22 local authorities.

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Specifying products has just become simpler

Discover how NBS Create has been designed to enable you to quickly and easily specify construction products either generically or by using manufacturer and product references. This guide also ...

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Eric Lyons and Span

This programme provides a brief guide to the work of the architect Eric Lyons and property development company Span Developments. It places Lyons' architecture in the context of post-war ...

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Polyclinic for the Destitute, Old Delhi

Romi Khosla Design Studio's Polyclinic for the Destitute near Old Delhi's Lahori Gate, opened at the end of 2012. Although the building has been completed, it is not officially open. This is the ...

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Specification in a BIM world

As part of the series of BITESized talks at the RIBA Village auditorium at Ecobuild 2013, Dr Stephen Hamil of RIBA Enterprises discusses specification in a BIM world.

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