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.
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.
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.
National BIM Report for Manufacturers 2016
The National BIM Report is the most comprehensive analysis of the state of BIM within the UK construction sector.
ReportsDigital Transformation
Reduce embodied carbon from the start
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Introducing the NBS National BIM Report for Manufacturers 2016
Change is constant. Over the past five years, the construction sector has embarked on a period of rapid change as it transforms into a truly digital industry, so writes Ian Chapman, Director of the ...
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BIM and the digital revolution
Statistically, it is more than likely that you are reading this article in a digital form, whether online or in a downloaded .pdf. You may have found the article via Twitter, a newsletter or a blog ...
Digital TransformationSurveys
Origin3 studio and our transition to BIM
Origin3 Studio is a relatively new practice formed in 2011. The ‘BIM transition’ was easier for us than most as we didn’t have to concern ourselves with gradual transitions, so writes Russ Green, ...
Digital TransformationSurveys
Presenting product information fit for BIM
Architects have been delivering construction information, drawings and specifications for centuries, so why now the focus on the importance of ‘data’? What has changed? The emergence of BIM and VDC ...
Digital TransformationSurveys
The impact of BIM on product selection throughout the project timeline
Who chooses products? When and how do they do it? David Bain, Research Manager at NBS explores how to put your products at the heart of the project timeline.
Digital TransformationSurveys
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BIM and the manufacturer: Ecoprod
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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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 ...
