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.
Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
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 ...
It is often said that variety is the spice of life, but the reality is that we live in a world that is defined by standards, many of which we take for granted.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
The NBS National BIM Survey has long served as an essential barometer for construction professionals, manufacturers and policy makers but, ahead of the 2016 deadline for the use of Level 2 BIM on ...
In the move to comply with the UK government’s mandate to work to BIM Level 2 by 2016, organisations are likely to encounter challenges in the process. Time and capital need to be invested, and ...
In the UK, through BIM, we are at the forefront of a significant change in how buildings are conceived, designed, built and maintained. This change has the potential to bring improved efficiencies ...
The first International BIM Survey, carried out by NBS and international partners, has revealed that UK consultants who do not adopt Building Information Modelling (BIM) could struggle to secure ...
This is the sixth in an eight-part series of articles, Climate Change Adaptation in Buildings, examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to ...
Following the success of the NBS National Construction Contracts and Law Survey 2012, we ran our second survey in this area from June to July of this year.
Richard Waterhouse, CEO, NBS and RIBA Enterprises introduces the 2012 NBS Sustainability Survey...
The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform had estimated in 2008 that it would take approximately three years after its commencement for the amendments to the Act 'to bed down and to ...
Building Information Modelling has been one of the most talked about topics of 2012. The movement from fragmented information, held by different people at different points in the construction ...
From March to April 2012, we at NBS ran our first survey about contracts and legal issues within the UK construction industry. We ran the survey to understand, amongst other things:
NBS's National BIM Survey has been released and reveals the latest BIM adoption figures.