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.
BS 8300 - Designing for Disability
This programme investigates the recent changes to BS 8300 'Design of buildings and their approaches to meet the needs of disabled people'. BS 8300:2009 is a full amendment to the 2001 version, and ...
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Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Approved Inspectors came into existence in 1985. Initially, they provided an alternative model of dwelling approval to that provided by local authorities' Building Inspectors, but since 1998 they ...
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Design of Steel Structures to Eurocode 3
Eurocode 3 is the new standard for the design of steel structures. It is wider in scope than other Eurocodes due to the diversity of steel structures, the range of design options and the possible ...
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Building Regulations Update
This programme looks at the Building Regulations, examining the drawbacks of the current system and how the Regulations could be improved.
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Building Regulations Explained - Overview
Parts L, J, F and G of the Building Regulations Approved Documents have been amended. From October 2010, energy efficiency standards, improved ventilation rates and significant carbon reduction ...
Standards and RegulationsFire safety
Building Regulations Explained - Part F and J
The Building Regulations Approved Document F: ‘Ventilation’ and Part J: ‘Combustion appliances and fuel storage systems’ have been amended.
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Fire Stopping
High profile fires like the one at Lakanal House in Camberwell in 2009, re-emphasise the fundamental importance of fire safety measures. This programme takes a look at principles of fire safety, ...
Standards and RegulationsFire safety
Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design
Eurocode 7 is Europe's first geotechnical design code to share a common philosophy with the design methodology for structures.
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Building Regulations Explained - Part G
The Building Regulations Approved Document G: ‘Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency’ came into force in April 2010. Together with the Code for Sustainable Homes, it ensures a reduction ...
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Building Regulations Explained - Part L
The Building Regulations Approved Document L: ‘Conservation of fuel and power’ has been amended. From October 2010, work to existing stock, new build, domestic and non-domestic buildings have to ...
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Standards in construction
Whether or not one accepts that waste and inefficiency accounts for 30% of the turnover of our sector, there are statistics that indicate that we replace only 1% of our building stock annually, ...
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
When is water wholesome?
Guide to Part G of the Building Regulations: Sanitation, hot water safety and water efficiency: 2010 edition by Nick Price is an essential reference handbook to understanding the new and ...
