A specification tool – Plus so much more

A new marketing campaign launched by RIBA Insight highlights just how often and how much NBS Plus, a feature within the industry-standard tool NBS, is now being used by specifiers. The fact that a product gets specified every minute through NBS Plus proves that the system works better than anything else in the product specification industry.

There is, quite simply, no other product or service in the market that performs the same function as NBS Plus. A library of manufacturers' product information linked to clauses within the NBS software suite, NBS Plus enables specifiers to search, select and insert product details directly into their specification with just one click of a mouse. It is incorporated into NBS Building, NBS Landscape, NBS Engineering Services and NBS Scheduler.

 

Specifiers love it because it's easy and gives them total control over their projects. Manufacturers adore it because inclusion in NBS adds credibility to their product, and because a project specification with their product and contact details on it is – in effect – a shopping list. Critically, both can appreciate that it places relevant and up-to-date product information in front of the specifier just when they need it.

NBS Building is used by over 5,000 UK practices, including 96 of the AJ UK Top 100. It features approximately 20,000 technical clauses written in NBS format by our in-house team of architects. All products within the suite also contain reference to further sources of technical information, including British Standards, and both NBS specification and NBS Plus data is available to ribaproductselector.com's 221,000+ visitors each month*. Product images and company logos can be used to reinforce branding and make the data look more attractive.

Using another facility available to all customers, dance and performing arts flooring specialists British Harlequin have incorporated live NBS data into their website to particularly good effect.

“We've found that architects ask us more and more about NBS specs. It's very useful to be able to direct them to NBS Plus,” says a company spokes person. “Specifiers love it because it's so easy to add our technical specification with just one click of the mouse.”

It takes less than a minute to find out how NBS Plus could be helping you.

* 221,186 ABCe October 2009

 

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