Are you BIM ready? What your business needs to do before 2016
We round up articles from the 'Are you BIM ready? What your business needs to do before 2016' series.
From March to April 2012, we at NBS ran our first survey about contracts and legal issues within the UK construction industry.
01 June 2012
We summarize the requirements of the CDM Regulations, current fire legislation and HSE guidance, and review the implications for the design and specification of projects.
Rebecca De Cicco explores how BIM is impacting on all stages of the design process.
In the first of a two part series Emma Humphrey shares her experience as a budding building detective.
The concluding part of a two part series where Emma Humphrey turns building detective.
The UK development control system is designed to involve adjacent owners and occupiers at every stage of the process, and big problems will ensue for the developer who ignores it.
Earth is a material that has made a comeback into modern construction - we explore unfired clay bricks (earth bricks) as a construction material.
Stefan Mordue looks at the health and safety recommendations that have shaped our football stadia.
This programme takes a look at what "Secured by Design" is for and how they work with architects, explaining the approval process for its "Design and Access Statement", the practical building and planning advice it provides, and showing how designers can gain "Secured by Design" accreditation. The programme also looks at the history and underlying theory of designing against crime, discussing whether it is a positive development for architecture and the built environment.
An understanding of how sound behaves in modern offices, and how to control excessive airborne sound, or noise as it then becomes known, is essential. Through the use of computer modelling, noise mapping and a knowledge of processes including flanking and noise masking, this programme looks at how acoustic engineers tailor to achieve that control.
As part of the series of BITESized talks at the RIBA Village auditorium at Ecobuild 2013, Clair Hillier of RIBA Enterprises discusses intelligent proprietary specification.
This article is based on the presentation on the same topic presented by Dr Stephen Hamil at the ecobuild 2012 'Better with BIM' seminar series.
