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.
Classifying the natural environment
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 ...
What is Project Management? Project management is the application of processes, methods, knowledge, skills and experience to achieve the project objectives.
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
Rob Younger is currently a placement student at NBS as part of the PlanBEE initiative. Here he talks about his interest in the industry and what experiences he's had so far and where he hopes that ...
Why are T-levels being introduced? The aim is to put technical courses on an equal footing with academic courses through a new 'simpler' system that will replace 13,000 qualifications with 15 new ...
What is the apprenticeship levy? From April 2017 funding of new apprenticeships will come from a apprenticeship levy on employers rather than taxpayers.
Have you ever considered a career in construction? The construction industry is one of the UK's biggest and most diverse employers - in fact, around one in ten jobs is in or related to the ...
When we started our placements at NBS, we had both signed up for a different sort of placement experience compared to our peers, who were mostly practice based. However our experience at NBS has been ...