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.
BIM 2050
2050. It seems like a long way off when you say it. But just what will the construction industry be like 37 years from now?
Digital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
BIM and its potential to support sustainable building
Building Information Modelling (BIM) has been advocated for its potential delivery of more innovative, cost-efficient buildings through more integrated information and collaboration. Yet the inherent ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
IFC / COBie Report 2012
The Government is committed to Building Information Modelling (BIM) and the use of open-standard data so that the construction industry can deliver greater value and be more efficient. The ...
ReportsDigital Transformation
The BIM Protocol - what's next?
As is well known, the Government wants the majority of its service providers to be using 3D BIM to what is known as Level 2 by April 2016. Level 2 requires the presentation of data in specific, ...
Digital Transformation
Realising the potential of BIM
Faithful+Gould, through their role on pioneering projects such as HMYOI Cookham Wood for the Ministry of Justice, the first UK Government BIM early adopter project, are embracing the opportunity to ...
Digital Transformation
BIM legal issues from a practical perspective
With every new seminar, conference and article the construction industry comes closer to the 2016 date for the full implementation of 'Level 2' BIM in government projects. In this article Nunelah ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
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What's going on in the world of BIM?
Building Information Modelling has been one of the most talked about topics of 2012. The movement from fragmented information, held by different people at different points in the construction ...
Digital TransformationNBS National BIM Report
The importance of the 'I' in BIM
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is here to stay. However, which companies in the construction industry are really fully utilising the full power of BIM? It is true that a large number of ...
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CDM and BIM - Virtually sorted
BIM for Health and Safety The 2012 Association for Project Safety (APS) convention held in Newcastle, entitled, 'The Changing face of construction', focused on Building Information Modelling (BIM) ...
Digital Transformation
BIM a year on
It has now been a year since the Government construction strategy was published by the Cabinet Office, on 31 May 2011. An efficient construction industry was highlighted in the government's plan for ...
Digital TransformationGovernment policy
BIM and construction law
One of the many undoubted benefits of BIM is its inherent ability to reduce the potential for disputes arising from clashing programmes and design details. However, by highlighting a landmark case in ...
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BIM: A change in the design process?
Architectural standards of communication and the way we have produced information in the past have been ingrained in our minds for many years as a standard to the method of delivering information in ...
