- http://www.unlimited.com/ecobuild/
Friday, 28 January 2011
Friday, 21 January 2011
Construction Industry Attitude to New Technology
At NBS we have recently carried out a survey on the construction industry's attitude to new technology.
90% of 500 respondents said they had a positive attitude towards new technology with those over 55 proving the most willing to embrace new technology. Over half would increase their investment in new technology while over a third now use a Smartphone as part of their working lives.
To check out all of the findings go to theNBS.com...
- http://www.thenbs.com/topics/PracticeManagement/articles/theTechnologySurvey.asp
90% of 500 respondents said they had a positive attitude towards new technology with those over 55 proving the most willing to embrace new technology. Over half would increase their investment in new technology while over a third now use a Smartphone as part of their working lives.
To check out all of the findings go to theNBS.com...
- http://www.thenbs.com/topics/PracticeManagement/articles/theTechnologySurvey.asp
And featured at bdonline.co.uk...
Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Beta Testers Wanted
At the CIBSE BIM Conference in December I mentioned that at NBS we are currently working very hard to develop our specification software and data. We are turning our specification content from what currently is simple clause paragraphs of text into "objects" that have relationships and meaning.
John Gelder from our Technical Team also wrote about this in his article Near Future Specification Systems.
This will have enormous benefits to those involved in writing specification. In particular, the specification will become a document that is worked on throughout the time line to firstly create an outline specification, then the same document can be expanded to either a performance specification or traditional full specification. At each stage in the time line no information will have to be re-keyed and no information will be lost.
As this document will consist of "objects" that have relationships and meaning then the user will be able to report on this content as they wish to easily create contractor action reports, manufacturer products reports, reference document reports etc...
In February the NBS Beta Testers will be getting their first look at our developments.
John Gelder from our Technical Team also wrote about this in his article Near Future Specification Systems.
This will have enormous benefits to those involved in writing specification. In particular, the specification will become a document that is worked on throughout the time line to firstly create an outline specification, then the same document can be expanded to either a performance specification or traditional full specification. At each stage in the time line no information will have to be re-keyed and no information will be lost.
As this document will consist of "objects" that have relationships and meaning then the user will be able to report on this content as they wish to easily create contractor action reports, manufacturer products reports, reference document reports etc...
In February the NBS Beta Testers will be getting their first look at our developments.
If you are an existing NBS customer and would be interested in being one of the first to see and then feedback on these developments then please contact the Beta Test Coordinator Seth Okai seth.okai@thenbs.com.
Thursday, 13 January 2011
NBS Plus on manufacturer websites
I wrote a short article for the RIBA Insight January monthly briefing on how manufacturers can display their NBS product specification on their websites:
- RIBA-Insight.com
The screen-shot below show how Knauf AMF display their NBS Plus data on their website...
- RIBA-Insight.com
The screen-shot below show how Knauf AMF display their NBS Plus data on their website...
"One of the most popular recent additions to NBS Plus is its built-in facility to allow manufacturers and suppliers to display NBS product specifications on their website. The advantages of this include:
- That smaller practices that specify low-budget projects by writing notes on drawings can now easily also add a robust, concise NBS product specification from a supplier's own website
- When a supplier's NBS Plus content is updated (by a qualified member of our in-house NBS technical team), it's also automatically updated on the supplier's website
- Clear visibility of NBS Plus branding, making it easy for visitors to quickly identify 'NBS Plus suppliers' (companies that are clients of NBS Plus) and to feel confident that they are dealing with a trustworthy name."
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Merry Xmas and Happy New Year
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 gone on on the blog through 2010 is below.
Launching in January 2010 the blog has seen an increased number of visitors throughout the year. Key stats are over 2,000 unique visitors, 80 posts and ending the year on over 600 visitors per month.
The most popular posts were:
Launching in January 2010 the blog has seen an increased number of visitors throughout the year. Key stats are over 2,000 unique visitors, 80 posts and ending the year on over 600 visitors per month.
The most popular posts were:
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) - 431 visitors
An introduction to what BIM is and what benefits adopters are seeing. - Using NBS with AutoCAD, Revit or Microstation - 409 visitors
A walkthrough of how to export NBS project specification information to keynote format. - Annotating ArchiCAD models from NBS - 290 visitors
A tutorial video showing the NBS Link plug-in to ArchiCAD. - NBS Domestic Specification - coming soon as an online product - 210 visitors
The teaser post promoting the new specification product from NBS. - Exporting NBS annotations to Vectorworks NotesManager format - 191 visitors
A walkthrough of how to export NBS project spec info for use with Vectorworks.
The most common keywords that Google visitors found the site from most were:
- nbs archicad - 43 visitors
- nbs on the road - 22 visitors
- using both scheduler and building - 19 visitors
- bim conference - 18 visitors
- nbs software blog - 15 visitors
See you all next year in 2011. There'll be some nice new improvements to the NBS specification products to be blogged about. Please keep your comments coming to. Always great to read them.
New NBS work section I think for 2011-1 update - B19 Site made frozen water constructions
Wednesday, 8 December 2010
Near future specification systems
My colleague from the NBS Technical Team John Gelder has written a super article on his vision for the next generation of specification systems. It was written for the latest NBS Journal. But can also be read on thenbs.com - http://www.thenbs.com/topics/DesignSpecification/articles/nearFutureProjectSpecifications.asp
Introduction:
Conclusions:
Introduction:
John Gelder, NBS Content Development Manager, looks at how near-future project specifications might differ from current project specifications.
Generally, we'll see that project specifications will be much smarter than at present, able to work much harder, whilst requiring less effort to produce and use.
Conclusions:
When is this near-future? Some of what is described here could be available in a couple of years, some within five, and some will take longer. None of it depends on specifiers being expert in building information modelling. Provided the content and software developers get it right, you'll be using BIM without even knowing it!
Tuesday, 7 December 2010
NBS BIM 2010 Survey featured on bdonline
bdonline.co.uk has our NBS BIM 2010 Survey as the featured article.
- bdonline
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/news/survey-reveals-industry-split-over-bim/5010009.article - NBS Survey Presentation
http://www.thenbs.com/bim/What_BIM_is_and_how_it_is_being_used.asp
Friday, 3 December 2010
CIBSE BIM Conference
The winter weather did not manage to spoil the CIBSE BIM conference. Nearly all the delegates turned up which was good to see.
I’ll do a post on a couple of the presentations on the NBS BIM Blog in a day or two. But as a summary, it was good to see a range of presentations. Impressive case studies from Sam Collard from Laing O’Rourke and Dan Clipsom from Arup. Also, a very interesting presentation from Paul Coates from John McCall Architects discussing how they have successfully adopted BIM.
The delegates seemed interested in the NBS BIM Survey 2010 results and it was good to get the chance to speak at such an event. Keep tuned to theNBS.com/BIM for the release of this research paper in the next month or two.
I’ll do a post on a couple of the presentations on the NBS BIM Blog in a day or two. But as a summary, it was good to see a range of presentations. Impressive case studies from Sam Collard from Laing O’Rourke and Dan Clipsom from Arup. Also, a very interesting presentation from Paul Coates from John McCall Architects discussing how they have successfully adopted BIM.
The delegates seemed interested in the NBS BIM Survey 2010 results and it was good to get the chance to speak at such an event. Keep tuned to theNBS.com/BIM for the release of this research paper in the next month or two.
Chairman Terry Wyatt thanks Sarah Graham from IES for her presentation
Anne King from BSRIA presents the findings from their conference earlier in the year
The snowy Clapham Common
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