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.
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.
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 ...
This article from the NBS technical team outlines specification for brick slip technology, including history, technology, design, safety and testing.
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.
The one mantra that aptly describes the intention behind the introduction of statutory adjudication is 'pay first and argue later'. It captures the intention of parliament to ensure that cash flow in ...
Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.
In a keynote speech to a DTI conference in 2005, the Hon Barry Gardiner MP commented on a report in the press which claimed that SMEs spent the equivalent of more than 14 years chasing payment.
'Everybody has won and we all must have prizes...' Dodo - Alice's Adventure in Wonderland In December 2011 we were completing the update of our industry leading NBS Contract Administrator to ensure ...
The Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform had estimated in 2008 that it would take approximately three years after its commencement for the amendments to the Act 'to bed down and to ...