Making Specification Safer: The BBA and NBS
24 March 2025
See how a partnership between the BBA, RIBA & NBS helps heighten safety standards from the earlie...
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The EU Construction Products Regulations 2024 and Digital Product Passports
07 May 2025
This article is about the rules concerning placing construction products on the market in the United Kingdom. It has been written in light of the EU Construction Product Regulations 2024 (CPR 2024) being publ...
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Latest Product Developments in NBS Source
12 March 2025
At NBS, we’re committed to continuous improvement, ensuring our platform evolves to meet the need...
15 reasons why specifications are still important
03 May 2024
Digital tools have transformed the specification process. Manufacturers who can understand and ad...
Building Safety: The Time To Act Is Now
13 February 2024
Recap Dame Judith Hackitt’s excellent speech on upcoming changes to the Building Safety Act and w...
NBS' 2023 Wrapped
20 December 2023
From industry-leading research and events to exciting new product developments to continually del...
A look back at the NBS Construction Leaders’ Summit 2023
18 October 2023
A day after the summit, NBS Innovation Director Dr Stephen Hamil reflects on what we learned from...
Display your sustainability content on NBS Source
19 June 2023
Specifiers want to know the sustainability credentials of your products as part of their decision...
Understanding the specification process: A specifier's perspective
10 February 2023
We recently hosted a webinar explaining exactly how the specification process works, including th...
NBS in 2022: Key Highlights
19 December 2022
Here’s how NBS has helped the construction industry this year and a look ahead at what we’ve got ...
7 specification essentials for RIBA CPD
17 September 2021
For manufacturers, getting your CPD RIBA-approved puts your products right in front of architects...
Manufacturers, RIBA CPD and the RIBA health and safety test
17 August 2021
Find out more about the health and safety test that the RIBA has just launched and the opportunit...
NBS Source & NBS Chorus - one connected solution
15 July 2021
NBS has been placing manufacturer’s products, systems and materials in front of specifiers since ...
Become part of the specification
11 February 2021
Lee Jones, Head of Manufacturer Solutions at NBS, explains how as manufacturers you can work dire...
Post-Brexit conformity marking and designated standards; how the new rules affect you
28 January 2021
With new regulations around UK construction products having come into effect on 01 January 2021, ...
12 Days of Digital Construction
18 December 2020
This Christmas, after such a transformational, innovative and challenging year we’re bringing you...
What the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 means for manufacturers
26 August 2020
The RIBA Plan of Work, first developed in 1963, has become the standard for organizing constructi...
Third-party certification with NBS Source
15 May 2020
Over recent years, one of the most popular requests for improvements from construction profession...
Permalinks with NBS Source
14 May 2020
Within NBS Source, each item (whether it is a product, a company, a case study or a PDF) has a sh...
Enhanced Data with NBS Source
14 May 2020
With the launch of our new platform, NBS Source, we at NBS have enhanced the data structure for m...
Review: 'Building a Safer Future'. The governments response and reformed building safety regulations.
06 April 2020
The UK Government has published their response to the ‘Building a Safer Future’ consultation. Thi...