NBS

RIBA Enterprises

Stephen Hamil – Head of Software Development

NBS

1. NBS a) History

b) What we do

c) Demonstration

2. NBS and CAD a) Exporting information from your specification

b) Linking this to your CAD model

c) Automated checking of annotations

NBS - History

NBS - History

NBS - History

NBS – What we do

• NBS is a brand. The company is called RIBA Enterprises.

• Owned by Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)

• Book shops, appointments, CPD, but the main revenue is from NBS

• Twenty five architects, engineers, landscape architects, quantity surveyors write and maintain NBS technical content

NBS – What we do

National Building Specification The best technical guidance and clause options to those writing specifications

NBS – What we do

The Construction Information Service Key technical information critical to all construction projects in one easy-to-

use online package

NBS – What we do

Building Regulations Approved Documents The latest documents online searchable and linked to from NBS

NBS – What we do

NBS Plus Around 20,000 product specifications from 600 manufacturers

NBS and CAD – Two information models

• NBS – Detailed material properties

– Execution and completion information

– Links to manufacturer, regulations and standards

• CAD – Visualisations

– Schedules and quantities

– Geometrics

So how to coordinate this project information?

NBS and CAD – Two information models

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