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.
digital-transformation
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.
Making the switch to BIM
This article is part of the Getting started with BIM series brought to you in association with Graphisoft.
Digital TransformationGetting started with BIM
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard - Geometry Requirements
Last time we looked at Section 2: Information Requirements, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 3: Geometry Requirements.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
The construction industry's wishlist for 2017
Predictions are always notoriously difficult. This year they are trickier than ever. The UK is getting to grips with what Brexit will mean. Uncertainty persists and that’s likely continue in 2017 and ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
The NBS BIG BIM Crossword
Print this page and get your writing implement of choice at the ready, set to tackle the grid of BIM-fuelled dreams..
Digital TransformationNBS Annual 2017
The top Medium posts about construction you need to read
What is Medium? Launched in 2012 by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, Medium is a publishing platform that features a uniform, minimalistic design that serves to put the writing in the spotlight.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
EU referendum survey (Q4 2016) - The findings
The effects of the Brexit decision are still unfolding.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard - Information Requirements
Last time we looked at Section 1: General Requirements, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 2: Information Requirements.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Five things we learnt at Autodesk University 2016
Autodesk's conference for those who design, build, make and create has drawn to a close, bringing the curtain down on a packed three day programme at The Venetian in Las Vegas, USA.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard - General Requirements
Last time we looked at what the standard is and why standardisation is so important, this time we delve into the guidance relating to Section 1: General requirements.
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Design Engineering Refocused
Design Engineering Refocused Hanif Kara, Daniel Bosia
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
How to ensure smart cities benefit everyone
Technology has the power to help people live in communities that are more responsive to their needs and that can actually improve their lives. For example, Beijing, notorious for air pollution, is ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Exploring the NBS BIM Object Standard
In the first part of a new series we explore what the standard is and why standardisation is so important.
