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.
Introducing the Periodic Table of BIM
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
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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.
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 ...
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BIM and the manufacturer: Ideal Standard
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 ...
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BIM and the manufacturer: Bruynzeel Storage Systems
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 ...
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BIM and the manufacturer: Twinfix
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 ...
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Building on BIM, diversity and change
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 ...
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Working towards a unified approach to BIM in Europe
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, ...
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Meeting the mandate - the Mott MacDonald story
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 ...
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BIM Task Group - April 4 mandate an 'internationally unparalleled achievement on our BIM journey'
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 ...
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BIM - the wider landscape of infrastructure, and the convergence with geospatial
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 ...
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National BIM Report 2016
The National BIM Report 2016 is the most comprehensive analysis of the state of BIM within the UK construction sector.
