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Discover a powerful carbon platform built for everyday projects. In this webinar, we’re sharing an exclusive first look at NBS LCA – a new platform developed by NBS to help construction professionals understand, compare and report on lifecycle carbon more efficiently. Join the session to see the new platform in action and hear from sustainability experts from BDP and Knauf UK & Ireland about their approach to carbon decisions.
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Why approved CPD should be the foundation of your content marketing strategy
Approved Continued Professional Development has long been recognised as one of the most effective ways for construction product manufacturers to educate architects and specifiers. Developed around ...
Design and Specification
How to Create Specification-Led Content | NBS
Learn how manufacturers can create specification-led content that supports real design decisions, from technical data and certifications to case studies and BIM assets in NBS Source.
Design and Specification
Manufacturer Marketing 101: How to Speak a Specifier’s Language
Connecting with architects is key to a manufacturer's success, but many businesses target them too late. In fact, the specification process offers manufacturers opportunities to collaborate with ...
Five reasons why getting specified is important for manufacturers
In this article, NBS Head of Manufacturer Solutions Lee Jones takes a look at five key points that re-enforce why getting specified is important for manufacturers, and key to being a player in ...
Design and Specification
Five top tips to deliver engaging CPD
Make sure your CPD content is improving your chances of getting your products specified by following these top tips.
RIBA CPDSales and marketing
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Become part of the specification
Lee Jones, Head of Manufacturer Solutions at NBS, explains how as manufacturers you can work directly with specifiers on project specifications by offering spec-writing services.
Design and SpecificationBusiness
Post-Brexit conformity marking and designated standards; how the new rules affect you
With new regulations around UK construction products having come into effect on 01 January 2021, you may be confused about exactly how this will affect you.
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
The Specification Marketing Cycle
Marketing | Sales The Specification Marketing Cycle 31 October 2024 | By NBS A free downloadable tool to help plan and make the most of your construction marketing activities.
Sales and marketing
Turn technical expertise into specification influence
Educate architects through RIBA-approved CPD, strengthen your industry credibility and position your brand earlier in project decision-making.
This Christmas, after such a transformational, innovative and challenging year we’re bringing you the 12 things we’ve learned about digital construction.
Design and SpecificationBusiness
It’s all about trust
Anna Hern, Managing Director at Ridgemount PR, shares her opinion with us, on CPD and how manufacturers can create engaging CPD content.
RIBA CPDSales and marketing
What the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 means for manufacturers
The RIBA Plan of Work, first developed in 1963, has become the standard for organizing construction projects. In 2013, RIBA Plan of Work had a complete overhaul, and again in 2020, significant ...
Design and SpecificationRIBA Plan of Work 2020
Third-party certification with NBS Source
Over recent years, one of the most popular requests for improvements from construction professionals who use NBS has been the request for prominent evidence of third-party certifications regarding ...
Design and SpecificationStandards and Regulations
Permalinks with NBS Source
Within NBS Source, each item (whether it is a product, a company, a case study or a PDF) has a short, permanent hyperlink. Within NBS, we are calling these short, permanent hyperlinks ‘permalinks’.
