Search thousands of construction products, manufacturers and supporting resources in one place. Use filters to narrow results by product type, certification, sustainability data, BIM availability and more, helping you move from a broad search to relevant options quickly.
NBS Source brings together the information needed to research products without relying on multiple websites or inconsistent sources. Browse by category, search by manufacturer or use detailed filters to focus on the products that meet your project requirements.
With structured product information presented clearly, it is easier to review suitable options, identify relevant documentation and progress your research with less time spent searching.
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Decisions made in NBS per month
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Find products faster
Compare with confidence
Review structured product information in a clear, consistent format. Compare performance, technical values, certifications, sustainability credentials and supporting documents without having to search across multiple manufacturer websites.
Product information is organised to make differences easier to understand, helping you assess which options are most suitable for the project. Supporting documents, including technical literature, certificates, environmental information and BIM objects, can be accessed alongside the product details.
This gives you a more complete view of each product and helps you make comparisons based on the information that matters, rather than relying on incomplete or differently formatted data.
Specify more easily
Bring product research closer to your specification workflow. NBS Source connects with NBS Chorus, allowing you to explore suitable products and use relevant manufacturer information while developing your specification.
Search for products from within the specification process, review the information provided by manufacturers and identify options that align with the requirements of the clause. This reduces the need to move between disconnected systems and helps keep product decisions closer to the specification.
By connecting product research and specification, teams can work more efficiently and create clearer links between project requirements and the products selected to meet them.
Reduce uncertainty
Access maintained, structured information directly from construction product manufacturers. Clearer and more complete product data helps reduce uncertainty, identify missing information and support more confident decisions throughout the design process.
Review technical details, certifications, sustainability information and supporting resources in one place, making it easier to understand whether a product meets the needs of the project. Consistent information also helps teams identify where further clarification may be required before a decision is made.
With better visibility of the available evidence, you can reduce assumptions, improve communication and support product decisions that are easier to understand, record and justify.
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Frequently asked questions
NBS Source aims to help you find everything you need to make a decision in one place – product properties, certifications, associated literature, specification clauses and digital objects. With NBS Source, you will be able to add the products data straight into your NBS specification or design model in the click of a button, saving you countless hours of hunting down products on the web or in printed brochures.
It will also allow manufacturers to be much more efficient in maintaining their product information, for example by confirming product information is current and also archiving de-listed products and adding new products. This means that you will always have access to the most up-to-date product information.
NBS Source is available in the places you need it, whether that’s in a web browser, on a mobile device, in your specification or in your design model. NBS Source can be accessed through the website: https://source.thenbs.com/
NBS Source currently works in parallel to NBS Chorus, our cloud-based specification platform, and design tools such as Autodesk Revit. However, in the near future, NBS Source will be fully integrated within both of these tools.
Today there are over 30,000 products from over 1,200 manufacturers. This includes many thousands of pieces of product literature, digital objects and specification clauses.
We know that in addition to this, specifiers want highly detailed, structured technical product information, in a consistent format so they can easily make decisions and add them to their projects. This is exactly what we are creating with NBS Source – through our ‘enhanced data’.
NBS will work with all of our partner manufacturers to collect a complete set of extensive, high-quality product data, structured to industry standards, including all relevant performance criteria and certifications. This is known as our ‘enhanced data’ and will allow powerful search, comparison and other features.
We have already started this authoring process and we will enhance all of this product data working with our manufacturer partners.
Designers and specifiers can support us in this journey by requesting that manufacturers not already within the NBS provide their product data through NBS Source.
If the product data format is consistent, then decision making is easier. Specifiers have a duty to ensure that they choose the right products. Too frequently, they have found it harder than it needs to be to make an informed choice between products. Information presented varies between products and between manufacturers, and specifiers can’t easily tell if they are comparing similar products or not. This wastes valuable time and creates the risk of mis-specifying.
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Explore products from leading manufacturers, assess suitability and access the information you need to specify with confidence.