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.
Working with NBS National BIM Library content
We as designers are constantly searching for better content to improve our BIM libraries. At long last someone has stepped up to the challenge to create some standard content and what NBS have ...
Digital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Building Information Modelling and interoperability
One thing that makes buildings more difficult to build than say aeroplanes or cars is that traditionally the different members of the construction team work in silos. So, within a design team you may ...
Digital Transformation
Mark Bew on the NBS National BIM Library
On Wednesday 21 March, NBS officially launched the National BIM Library at Ecobuild.
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What will BIM mean for design fees?
In the 1980s, the construction industry disposed with typewriters and drawing boards and adopted computer software to produce construction documentation. Now, another revolution is happening in the ...
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BIM: mapping out the legal issues
As we prepare to adopt the BIM working process in most public sector contracts by 2016 with hopefully similar up take by private sector clients, it is worth having a look at the legal issues that may ...
Digital TransformationContracts and Law
NBS National BIM Report 2012
NBS's National BIM Survey has been released and reveals the latest BIM adoption figures.
Digital TransformationNBS National BIM Report
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BIM and the UK Construction Strategy
David Philp, Head of BIM Implementation at the Cabinet Office and BIM Programme Director at Balfour Beatty, takes a look at the UK Government Construction Strategy and what 2012 has in store for ...
Digital TransformationGovernment policy
CIBSE Building Services Conference - BIM and Engineering Services
I was invited to take part in panel discussion at the CIBSE Building Services Conference on BIM and service engineering, which took place on in London on 9 and 10 October 2012.
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BIM collaboration and engineering
Today we live in an information-rich world. A traditional 2D drawing to BIM is the hardback encyclopaedia to Wikipedia or even Web 2.0. The text is comforting and familiar but lacking in depth and ...
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BIM from the point of view of a small practice
David Miller Architects is a small practice based in central London. Our work load is fairly typical of a small practice being affordable housing, schools, student housing and some mixed use ...
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BIM opportunities - Part 1: What is BIM?
A variety of speakers – covering architectural practitioners, advisers, designers, academics, contractors (in UK and USA) and engineers, etc – answer a range of questions on BIM to explain the ...
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BIM opportunities - Part 7: The future for BIM
A variety of speakers – covering architectural practitioners, advisers, designers, academics, contractors (in UK and USA) and engineers, etc – answer a range of questions on BIM to explain the ...
