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.
New NBS survey to map digital technologies
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Tell us what you think about BIM by taking part in the NBS National BIM Survey.
Digital TransformationSurveys
Help shape the construction knowledge on theNBS.com
Tell us what you think about the Knowledge section of theNBS.com. It'll only take a few minutes and help shape the service we offer construction professionals.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Have your say in the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2017
I’m pleased to invite you to take part in our fourth survey covering construction contracts used during the past 12 months.
Contracts and LawNBS National Construction Contracts and Law Surve
RIBA research shows how architects can build professional resilience
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
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The latest construction industry research and analysis, free from NBS
NBS National BIM Report 2017 The annual NBS National BIM Report is now recognised as one of the industry’s most comprehensive reviews into the use of BIM. Now in its seventh year, the latest report ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
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Five trends to watch in the NBS National BIM Survey 2017
What is the NBS National BIM Survey? Over the last seven years the NBS National BIM Survey (and the resulting NBS National BIM Report) has become an essential resource for construction professionals ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
NBS research finds users value Approved Documents
Last year NBS Research, working with the Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG), asked for your views on the Building Regulations Approved Documents (ADs).
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Have your say in our EU Referendum Survey
Four months after UK’s referendum on our future in Europe, I would like to invite you to take part in a follow-up NBS survey about the future of our sector.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
National BIM Report for Manufacturers 2016
The National BIM Report is the most comprehensive analysis of the state of BIM within the UK construction sector.
ReportsDigital Transformation
Introducing the NBS National BIM Report for Manufacturers 2016
Change is constant. Over the past five years, the construction sector has embarked on a period of rapid change as it transforms into a truly digital industry, so writes Ian Chapman, Director of the ...
ReportsDigital Transformation
BIM and the digital revolution
Statistically, it is more than likely that you are reading this article in a digital form, whether online or in a downloaded .pdf. You may have found the article via Twitter, a newsletter or a blog ...
