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.
green-walls
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.
What we learnt at Northumbrian Water's Innovation Festival 2018
In 2017 Northumbrian Water Group’s first Innovation Festival landed in the North East, and this year it was bigger and better than ever.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
From long lost arts to new eras: we predict the construction jobs of the future
As we prepare to welcome several thousand schoolchildren to our Future Buildings exhibition over the next month, we turned our thoughts to the construction industry some of them may well work in. ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
The ten innovations disrupting the construction industry
Our Future Buildings exhibition at the Old Post Office opened earlier this month, exploring what our homes, offices and schools may look like in the future and the technology empowering the ...
Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
Creating greener, smarter communities: apply to take part
Do you want to make the world a better place? To make a difference to society, the environment and the economy? Do you have an idea for a business that could:
SustainabilitySmart cities
Digestive 'smart' bricks set to power homes and recycle waste water
A new project to transform building facades into ‘biological computers’ made up of ‘digestive’ bricks that can create useful products from waste has been launched at Newcastle University.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The NBS guide to façade greening (3/3)
This time, we investigate the performance of the façade greening systems mentioned in previous parts, with reference to a range of recent research projects.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
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The NBS guide to façade greening (2/3)
This time we continue our exploration of systems available and their likely benefits and detractions in more detail.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
The NBS guide to façade greening (1/3)
This time we clarify some core concepts and terminology, ahead of an exploration of systems available and their likely benefits.
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Green wall success means Newcastle’s really growing places
We’ve touched on the benefits of ‘living walls’ or ‘green walls’ before on theNBS.com but with summer hopefully just around the corner it felt like a good time to venture outdoors to explore two ...
SustainabilityGreen walls
Living facade at EEA HQ
Architects generally overlook the impact their decisions have upon biodiversity. Yet at a local and global level design decisions, especially in the area of material choice and specification, have ...
Design and SpecificationGreen walls
The growth of living walls
A growing trend for green walls is emerging, boosting biodiversity in our towns and cities. According to a recent report by the UK Green Building Council (UK-GBC) , Biodiversity and the Built ...
