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Discover how specification can support BREEAM New Construction V7, with practical guidance from NBS and BRE on assessment requirements, evidence and more sustainable project outcomes.
With tightening regulations and growing client demand, the construction industry is under increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable progress against carbon reduction targets. For specifiers, that ...
Because of how they are used, kitchens and bathrooms experience more moisture, more contact, and more ongoing maintenance. Standard emulsions are not designed for this level of use. Over time, ...
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 ...
What is early-stage specification? The addition of early-stage content provides a place to record information that forms the basis for the design development, which is information that is essential ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
How does Uniclass support interoperability? The classification of ‘things’ is integral to the successful delivery of interoperable data, allowing information to be organized and easily retrieved. To ...
Uniclass is published digitally in a set of tables, logically structured to support various classification needs for asset management, infrastructure operations, and built environment lifecycle ...
Light pollution is an unwanted by-product of artificial light. It's most problematic in urban settings where artificial light sources exist en masse.
What is Uniclass? Uniclass is a unified classification system for the built environment covering all sectors and roles, delivered by NBS.
1. The contract documents When working on basic construction projects, where the work is of a simple nature, then typically this work will be undertaken using a ‘small works’ standard form ...
1. The importance of specification Many smaller practices work on less complex construction projects. While there is no universal definition of what a ‘small works’ project is, it is generally ...
What are architectural specifications? A specification is a detailed description of the dimensions, construction, workmanship, materials etc., of work done or to be done on a project, prepared by an ...
Update: Since this article was first written, all the content from the NBS National BIM Library has moved across to NBS Source. ...
Across the world, at universities, aspiring architects and engineers receive hours and hours of training in how to design and prepare drawings, but in general receive little support or instruction on ...
You took BIM for Dummies to the Bahamas last year, so what should you read this time around? In advance of the holiday season we’ve compiled ten of the most popular paperbacks on big data, smart ...
According to HSE, within the UK there are 80,000 construction workers who suffer from work-related bad health each year and 64,000 who suffer non-fatal injuries.