Are you BIM ready? What your business needs to do before 2016

Stephen Hamil, Director of Research and Innovation at NBS, looks at the top ten reasons why the use of a digital master system for writing and managing specifications is better than using a tool such as Microsoft Word

A good master specification system must follow the principles of the seven Cs - we take a look at each one in our downloadable infographic 

If you don’t know exactly which products are in a design, and exactly which products are in the subsequent completed building, there can be significant trouble ahead

Over the last year, we’ve worked closely with a select group of large scale, global practices to understand the growing digital needs and requirements of the built community.

There’s £600 billion of government investment in the pipeline, yet our workforce is ageing and short of the skills needed in traditional construction processes

We eavesdropped on a couple of this year’s sprints to find out what projects might be on the horizon

What jobs will we see coming out of the construction industry in the next decade - and which will disappear?

From Augmented Reality to 3D printing, we take a look at some of the technology turning construction on its head

This year’s showcase of arts, design and innovation is full of exciting ways to use technology - from VR headsets to light shows performed by drones. We pick our top five

We explore the ways the construction industry adds to the world’s production of plastic waste, as well as how it works to tackle it

Professor Rudi Klein looks at the contractual risks inherent within the supply chain

Refreshed 2016 JCT Contracts are now available. We take a look at what's changed and what these changes mean for users of our NBS specification tools and NBS Contract Administrator as of Spring 2018