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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

Sustainable Futures UK Report 2026

Explore the current state of sustainability in the UK construction industry based on the results from a comprehensive survey conducted by NBS.

Must Reads

  • Construction Products

    Visqueen launches Ultimate Self Adhesive Membrane for hydrocarbon and VOC-contaminated sites

    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 ...

  • Construction Products

    Siderise: Helping to bridge the gap between Gateway 2 approval and on-site fire protection

    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 ...

  • RIBA CPD

    RIBA CPD for Architects: Understanding Flooring Specification and Detailing

    For architects and specifiers, flooring details can have a significant impact on the safety, accessibility, durability and overall performance of a building. Yet the technical considerations ...

Go back to school with these TED talks on design and innovation

You may not have had a Power Rangers lunch box in a while but that's no excuse not to keep learning. To help out, we've compiled some of the best TED talks on the construction industry, innovation ...

Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation
NBS-LCA

Reduce embodied carbon from the start

Measure, compare and reduce upfront embodied carbon using trusted UK data and pre-built assemblies.

From long lost arts to new eras: we predict the construction jobs of the future

As we prepare to welcome several thousand schoolchildren to our Future Buildings exhibition over the next month, we turned our thoughts to the construction industry some of them may well work in. ...

Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation

The ten innovations disrupting the construction industry

Our Future Buildings exhibition at the Old Post Office opened earlier this month, exploring what our homes, offices and schools may look like in the future and the technology empowering the ...

Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation

Funding boost puts augmented reality to work for construction

Following implementation by Crossrail’s contractor Laing O’Rourke, which saw Soluis’ In-Site AR asset management tool demonstrate its benefits and feasibility onsite, Soluis is now developing the ...

Design and SpecificationDigital Transformation

What construction jobs will look like when robots can build things

By 2034/35, almost 20% of Australians (6.2 million) are projected to be aged 65 or over. One sector already feeling the impact of the ageing population is construction. In Queensland, the number of ...

Digital TransformationAustralia

'New tradesmen' are the future of UK construction

Research by construction industry insurers AXA reveals that a new generation of tradesmen and women is arising. Far from being short on skills, these younger people are bringing a greater diversity ...

Design and SpecificationVR and AR

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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 ...

Digital TransformationVR and AR