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.
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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.
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.
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 ...
Design and SpecificationStudents
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 ...
Design and SpecificationSports grounds
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.
