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.
Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.
The construction industry faces growing challenges when building on increasingly complex brownfield sites. Alongside the need for effective waterproofing, developers and contractors must now address ...
While the new building safety regime hasn’t fundamentally changed what requirements higher-risk buildings (HRBs) must meet to comply with the Building Regulations, it has significantly increased the ...
For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Towards the end of 2014 and into early 2015, the team here at Ecoprod became increasingly aware of the ‘BIM Movement‘, as I like to call it, primarily through our contact with architects and ...
Since May 2015, leading UK provider of innovative and design-driven bathroom solutions, Ideal Standard International , has partnered with NBS to host its Building Information Modelling (BIM) objects ...
Bruynzeel Storage Systems is a Dutch manufacturing company with sales offices in nine European countries, and more than 30 dealerships worldwide, so writes Andy Duck, the company's Marketing and ...
My first thoughts on hearing about BIM (Building Information Modelling) were: how is this going to work?, so writes Vicky Evans, Managing Director at Twinfix . A great concept in theory, but how will ...
As we move into the future it is important to try to understand how our industry will begin to evolve, learn and create opportunities for ourselves and our businesses. BIM has become a critical ...
Europe is now host to the greatest regional concentration of government-led BIM programmes in the world. Finland and Norway were first to set standards, followed by procurement policies from the UK, ...
Such is the strength of market forces and competition, there is an unrelenting quest to streamline process, minimise waste and promote effective working to drive positive change in how organisations ...
The successful delivery of the Government Construction Strategy (GCS) Level 2 BIM objectives represents ‘an internationally unparalleled achievement on the journey towards the digitalisation of the ...
As we move forward in our progression of BIM implementation across the infrastructure industry, I am realising that some of our most useful insights are occurring within the overlap and disruptive ...
The National BIM Report 2016 is the most comprehensive analysis of the state of BIM within the UK construction sector.