I'm a collector of NBS items from the past (see all posts tagged ' History ') so when I found this NBS Journal Edition One from ...

Richard W found this NBS Specification Manager manual from 1996 in the archives, thought I'd share it. Click for larger images. The man...

Found this on youtube. Promotional video from CPIC (Coordinate Project Information Committee) back in 1987. The members of CPIC contribu...

I got a nice email from Levitt Bernstein's Andy Jobling yesterday, he'd found some of the very first reviews of NBS from the Archit...

I got handed some old project documentation today that was used to help inform the development of the very first National Building Specifica...

Rewind back to Autumn 1990... ...the first bit of construction software written for the UK market on Microsoft Windows 3.0 * was released....

It's great to see our "40 years of NBS" website go live. For the next few weeks nostalgic pictures from the last forty years...

In recent conversations with architects, a few people have fondly recalled the days of using "stencils" provided by bathroom manuf...

Here is a genuine construction contract clause from the olden days. From presentation given at the BIM Summit Qatar that I attended. I...

I managed to get a copy of the first ever IFC promotional video "The End of Babel" from 1994 *. Fascinating to watch it nearly tw...

To those that have visited the blog this year - many thanks for your support. Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all. A summary of what's ...

With the recent release of the Annotator as part of the NBS Tools it is worth looking back a few years in time. In 1996, Annotaion Manag...