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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Over the last year, we’ve hosted a wide range of webinars covering everything you need to know about the construction industry.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Getting more from your NBS subscription Although NBS Chorus is about helping you work on your projects more efficiently and effectively, your subscription comes with many more features that you can ...
Earlier this year, NBS hosted a webinar on the theme of holistic specification of materials, presented by Taleen Josefsson, Thrive Project Leader at Chetwoods. In this article, Taleen provides ...
Background NBS Chorus includes the essential features needed to produce high-quality specifications in the cloud. The Chorus Pro level of subscription includes an enhanced set of features which ...
As seen in this specification example, specification plays a crucial role in every successful project, providing a clear representation of the built asset and creating a continuous, thorough, ...
Preliminaries - Contracts There are several contracts suitable for use in Ireland and we support four contracts published by RIAI and four published by the Irish Office of Government Procurement.
Before starting your Death Star specification. It is essential to set the scene with music. Every villain needs a theme tune...right? Things you will need Specification writing software – might we ...
Planning for NBS Create retirement From experience of working with many NBS Create customers, NBS can recommend a set of key steps to consider as the retirement of NBS Create software approaches and, ...
1. What clients need No two clients are the same, and each will have requirements specific to their own business needs. However, there is also much commonality across all projects and all sectors.
We recently hosted a webinar, Collaborative Specification Writing, featuring insights from NBS Innovation Director, Dr Stephen Hamil, NBS Head of Manufacturer Solutions, Lee Jones, and manufacturers ...
When the COVID-19 pandemic forced everyone to adapt last year, we moved our events offering entirely online. As part of that move, we rolled out an extensive range of webinars throughout 2020 with ...
1. The contract documents When working on basic construction projects, where the work is of a simple nature, then typically this work will be undertaken using a ‘small works’ standard form ...