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.
standards-and-regulations
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.
Government strategies to decrease the production of carbon emissions
Through Government authority, policies can ensure that reducing carbon emissions is a matter of law and all within the UK must comply. Some of the objectives set out by the Government include ...
SustainabilityStandards and Regulations
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
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The construction industry expos and conferences you have to attend in 2018
January February March April May June July August September October November December February 2018 28 February and 1 March BIM Show Live Where? Boiler Shop, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne What? Over the course ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Uniclass 2015 - October 2017 update
Project Management Table Following an extended period of consultation, the Project Management Table has been published. The Project Management table consists of Uniclass 2015 codes which provide a ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What we learnt at Digital Construction Week 2017
After a VIP reception on Wednesday evening, the show proper got underway on Thursday with a 'state of the nation' address from Digital Built Britain's Mark Bew.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
10 ways to make the most of your visit to this year's Digital Construction Week
This year’s Digital Construction Week offers the chance to meet the Government’s Digital Built Britain core team; join workshops and clinics covering everything from BIM to VR/AR; while checking out ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
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New standards for lifts (EN 81-20 and EN 81-50)
Two new European standards for the design and manufacture of lifts were introduced in August 2014 - EN 81-20: 2014 and EN 81-50: 2014.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What is the BuildingSMART data dictionary?
Construction is an industry awash with technical terms, understanding which of these terms have parity of concept and which are distinct (however subtly), is at the heart of clear communication.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
What is the PAS 1192 framework?
A series of PAS documents set out the requirements for achieving BIM Level 2 by establishing a framework for collaborative working and information requirements.
Standards and RegulationsDigital Transformation
What are safety briefings and toolbox talks?
Those who commission, design, construct and operate buildings have obligations to control the risks that those using the facilities might reasonably incur both during the construction and operation ...
Standards and RegulationsHealth and Safety
Uniclass 2015 - July 2017 update
This July issue is the next in the three-monthly Uniclass 2015 updating programme. The Uniclass 2015 tables were last updated in April 2017. Between updates, we liaise regularly with a growing number ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Gas Appliance Directive to be replaced by Gas Appliance Regulation
Placing a CE Marking on a product means it has been declared as complying with all applicable regulations. The CE Marking of gas appliances is currently regulated by the EU Gas Appliances Directive ...
