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.
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
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 ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
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 ...
Noisy phone calls, loud typing, disruptive cleaning, constant office gossip… there’s no end to the cacophony of sounds that can be a distraction at work. Acoustic design is sometimes assumed to only ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
We recently hosted a webinar where our panel of industry experts answered your questions about everything to do with specification. Tina Pringle, Director of Technical Information, Dr Stephen Hamil, ...
Recently at NBS we have made a full set of sample specifications available to download in both Uniclass and CAWS (Common Arrangement of Work Sections) format.
After another busy year, we wanted to reflect on some of the key highlights of 2022.
1. NBS - a global platform When launching NBS Chorus in 2019, we set out to create a best-in-class specification platform that worked with pre-written content libraries for building projects around ...
Defining sustainable development There are two widely-accepted definitions of what constitutes sustainable development:
NBS is the official specification and product data partner of CIBSE. The partnership brings together a wealth of information, content, and resources from both organisations, providing support ...
1. Better coordinated design and specification One of the most popular features of NBS Chorus is the ability to plug the platform into design tools such as Autodesk Revit, Graphisoft Archicad or ...
This article is from the RIBA Construction Contracts and Law Report 2022. It has been reproduced for the NBS website with added illustrations showing how NBS tools can be used to address the ...
The RIBA Plan of Work This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work
This is part of a series of articles looking at The Digital Plan of Work