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NBS Chorus

FOR MANUFACTURERS

Collaborate with architects and specifiers directly within the specification environment.

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The specification landscape is changing, putting more demands on both specifiers and manufacturers to create data-rich and detailed project specifications. Manufacturers have been working with architects, specifiers and designers on their project specifications for decades, but the process can be long and challenging for all involved.

Listing your systems and products on NBS Source is the best method of being discovered by specifiers at the point of specification. However, it's now possible to strengthen this position even further by offering a full specification writing consultancy service from the point where your systems and products are being considered. This will allow you to better advise on which products are suitable for a specific project need and how they should be installed to ensure that the required performance is met. On more complex projects, the expertise of construction manufacturers is vital and being able to collaborate digitally on the same specification can ensure the best outcome and also eliminate the chance of being substituted at a later stage.

Which is why we’ve created NBS Chorus for Manufacturers, as it enables building product manufacturers to produce digital specifications for their products in the format specifiers require. More than that, it gives manufacturers the ability to work directly with their clients in the project environment - collaborating directly on the specification.
Collaborate

Collaborate

Thousands of products are written in a specification, which can be complicated and time-consuming. Chorus for Manufacturers allows the architect or specifier to invite the manufacturer into the specification environment to contribute to their particular part, helping to make the entire collaboration process quicker, more efficient and more accurate, saving both parties’ time and money. 

Build relationships

Build relationships

Over 3,500 practices (including Architects, Designers, Contractors and Engineers) use NBS Chorus to create their specifications. For manufacturers that offer a spec-writing service, Chorus for Manufacturers gives them unrivalled access to work in partnership with specifiers.

Work safer

Work safer

As a manufacturer, you can provide detailed information about your products and the systems that compliment them, in the correct format, helping prevent mis-specification and product substitution. Not only that, when specification decisions are made in Chorus, it can create an audit trail, supporting the golden thread of information and a reference point on when decisions were made.

Work smarter

Work smarter

NBS Chorus is very easy to use. You no longer have to worry about keeping up to date with the latest regulations and standards – our team of experts do it for you - reducing the risk of things going wrong! Using Chorus for Manufacturers you can write your specifications compliant to the UK BIM Framework using Uniclass 2015, and Common Arrangement of Works (CAWS – often referred to as an NBS Building spec) with full support from our technical team of experts.

Work anywhere

Work anywhere

NBS Chorus for Manufacturers is hosted online, so no complicated downloads, or IT updates needed, just log in on a web browser to get started and you can update specs at any time across devices, platforms and offices. Wherever you are, or whatever you’re working on, Chorus will keep the specification, and your product data in sync.

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