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 ...
What is sustainable specification? Sustainable specification is a specifying style that emphasizes responsibly selecting manufacturing and building methods, services, materials and products to align ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
This is the latest in our quarterly updating programme for Uniclass. It includes updates to eight tables and is predominantly for the addition of new classifications and corrections to existing ...
How does Uniclass support interoperability? The classification of ‘things’ is integral to the successful delivery of interoperable data, allowing information to be organized and easily retrieved. To ...
This article looks at the benefits of using the Uniclass classification structure when structuring manufacturer product information. It provides an insight into how NBS does this in the NBS Source ...
Light pollution is an unwanted by-product of artificial light. It's most problematic in urban settings where artificial light sources exist en masse.
The specification libraries in NBS Chorus are structured either by Common Arrangement of Work Sections (CAWS) or Uniclass. Understandably, one of the most common questions that we receive at NBS is ...
Introduction The writing of a specification is a process where information is developed from the concept design stage through to tender, and potentially through to a record of what is built at ...
Within the NBS Chorus software platform we have developed content packages that are tailored to specific user requirements. For example, users can subscribe to separate libraries for ‘architectural’, ...
Throughout the year, we’ve focussed on the improving the way the construction industry specifies projects, finds products and uses data. We’ve also aimed to tackle the major issues of the day, ...
Update July 2022 - The BIM Toolkit has now been retired. For support in creating digital plans of work and classifying information please see the following page: ...
In September NBS hosted its second digital conference of 2021 the Construction Leaders’ Summit: Building Better, chaired by Richard Waterhouse who was joined by leading figures in the construction ...
Specifications for architecture, engineering, landscape, and the built environment give construction teams a detailed overview of the project work, required performance, and product selections. This ...