What Specifiers Want 2017 articles
Here we share some of the articles that feature in What Specifiers Want 2017.
Dr Stephen Hamil, Director of Design and Innovation at NBS, gives his thoughts on BIM Show Live 2014.
01 March 2014
An update on the status of references to Eurocodes in NBS.
Jenny Dobson rounds up findings from the NBS Specification Survey and introduces the NBS Specification Report 2013.
Roland Finch assesses measures in the 2014 budget on the construction industry.
Simon Lewis explores the The BIM Protocol, published by the Construction Industry Council (CIC) in February 2013 and its likely impact on all parties in the supply chain.
Public procurement is one of the major items of expenditure for purchasing authorities in Europe and an important element of the European Single Market. Here, Roland Finch takes a look at what’s new.
An introduction to The CIOB's Complex Projects Contract 2013 (CPC2013) permits employers to manage their own risks in projects which, by their nature, are sufficiently complicated that they cannot be managed effectively by intuition alone.
An introduction to the FIDIC contracts which are reputed as the leading contracts in international engineering and construction projects.
The final part of an eight-part series of articles examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to those changes for both new-build and retro-fitting. This time, wind.
The penultimate part of an eight-part series of articles examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to those changes for both new-build and retro-fitting. This time, drought.
The sixth in an eight-part series of articles examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to those changes for both new-build and retro-fitting. This time, subsidence.
The fifth in an eight-part series of articles examining the impact of climate change on the built environment, and the responses that can be made to those changes for both new-build and retro-fitting. This time, the second part looking at flooding.