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.
Smart home and light market gains momentum
What are smart devices? A 'smart' or 'intelligent' device is an electronic device that's typically connected to the internet (and potentially a network of other smart devices) offering the potential ...
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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.
ICE takes temperature of infrastructure sector's digital transformation
For all the talk about the digital construction revolution, what benefits are clients and end users actually seeing on the ground? Is digital construction providing a boost to productivity and ...
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Designing homes for water efficiency
The UK climate makes it easy to think of water as a plentiful resource that we don't need to worry about. This couldn't be further from the truth - according to Waterwise the UK has less available ...
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Green offices make for healthy, happy and more productive staff
Employers, building owners, designers and developers throughout the world are showing that it pays to invest in greener offices that keep their occupants healthy and happy.
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Developing an embodied carbon brief for clients
In recent years construction industry clients have achieved significant reductions in the operational energy used by structures, thereby reducing carbon emissions. The next challenge is to reduce the ...
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Grab your free Ecobuild 2017 tickets
NBS had a great time at Ecobuild 2016 and this year's show is set to be even better. Organisers UBM have overhauled the floorplan to deliver an exciting new format that will deliver an immersive ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
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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
4D Hyperlocal - A cultural toolkit for the open-source city
4D Hyperlocal: A Cultural Toolkit for the Open-Source City Guest edited by Lucy Bullivant
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Has bendable concrete cracked the maintenance burden?
Billions of pounds are spent every year dealing with the resulting cracks and, in recent years, scientists have been experimenting with a range of self-healing technologies. Now researchers in ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The 20th century saw a 23 fold increase in natural resources used for building
That's according to research from Heinz Schandl and Fridolin Krausmann.
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What is the Internet of Things and what does it mean for construction?
What is the Internet of Things? In simple terms the Internet of Things (IoT) involves a whole world of connected gadgets and gizmos that interact with each other to monitor, report and switch things ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Regenerative development and design
Regenerative Development and Design Pamela Mang, Ben Haggard, Regenesis
