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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historic-buildings
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.
historic-buildings
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.
CAWS content updates for alteration, refurbishment and retrofit work
In 2024, over 50,000 refurbishment projects were undertaken in the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (see the breakdown of sectors below). This constitutes around a third of all ...
Design and SpecificationResources
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
While new builds are designed to be energy-efficient from the outset, most of the building stock we have existed before modern energy-efficiency home standards were introduced. This is true now and ...
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Heritage Open Days return for 2017
From 7 to 10 September 2017, a host of places and spaces – many of which are usually off limits – will be free for visitors to explore.
Historic BuildingsMuseums
100 years 100 buildings
100 Years 100 Buildings John Hill
Design and SpecificationSustainability
Alternative housing: a different approach to materials, styles and community thinking (Part two)
Great Britain is in a housing crisis. Everywhere you look, some version of that headline is making the rounds. In some places, it’s a daily conversation. Of course, as we all know, it’s not just a ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
Alternative housing: a different approach to materials, styles and community thinking (Part one)
Great Britain is in a housing crisis. Everywhere you look, some version of that headline is making the rounds. In some places, it’s a daily conversation. Of course, as we all know, it’s not just a ...
Design and SpecificationConstruction Products
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Heritage Open Days set to celebrate England's architecture
The doors to some of England’s most interesting and unique buildings are set to be thrown open next month as part of the annual Heritage Open Days festival.
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
A palace unfit for the Queen?
When you think of a palace your mind likely pictures high ceilinged rooms and the very finest finishings – a picture of opulence and grandeur. Pity then, poor Queen Elizabeth II whose London abode ...
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
Parliament restoration: Options tabled for overhaul of Palace of Westminster
A report has set out possible options for the restoration of the Palace of Westminster at significant cost to the taxpayer. We explore some of the options.
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
An historic building day (2/2)
In the concluding part of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
An historic building day (1/2)
In the first of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective...
Design and SpecificationHistoric Buildings
Fire safety and heritage buildings
Peter Barker, Senior Consultant at Chiltern International Fire , outlines the issues and offers practical advice on managing the fire risk in historic buildings.
