NBS Landscape Support

A recent Windows 10 update introduced an option that is currently not compatible with NBS Building or NBS Landscape. We recommend you switch this option off when using these products.

This article explains how you can edit the officesettings.xml file within NBS Building, NBS Engineering Services and NBS Landscape. It is mainly aimed for users who have a network setup and have access to the same locations on the server.

This article describes how to do a clean reinstall of NBS Building and NBS Landscape.

Unable to retrieve data from the security.sms file when launching NBS Building or NBS Landscape.

A guide to getting started with Tommy Hodgson, one of our NBS Trainers. He gives a general guide to the NBS Building user interface, the main functions, and some useful hints and tips along the way.

'A required registry setting cannot be found' error message upon opening NBS Building.

In this article we provide guidelines on how you can reduce the length of your NBS Building or NBS Landscape specification, making it more concise, clear, and easier for your clients to read.

A guide to exporting sections of your specification to PDF format. In this video, we show you how to easily export all sections, a selection of sections or reports to individual PDFs, including how to add a your company stylesheet in the process. This function is available in version 5.6.4 or later.

This article provides information on using Mac OS X with NBS products.

Important - NBS is ending support for Windows XP and Vista.

A quick guide to help save time and create consistency in the specifications produced in your practice by introducing and explaining what Office Standards are, how to create them and how to use them in NBS Building, NBS Landscape and NBS Engineering Services.

NBS provide preliminaries for use with the JCT Prime Cost Contract. These are only included in NBS Building and NBS Create.