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RIBA CPD Overview
Further information on some of the training offered by NBS, Div of RIBA Enterprises Ltd and the locations served is available:
RIBA CPD Overview for NBS, Div of RIBA Enterprises Ltd
 

NBS, Div of RIBA Enterprises Ltd

Overview
NBS provide market leading solutions in the areas of specification writing, contract administration, technical information, learning and CPD.
NBS - more than the National Building Specification.

CPD Material (8)

Online Learning
NBS Educator
NBS Educator is a website-based series of six presentations in three formats for newcomers to the profession and those needing initial information on:
- Briefs: an introduction
- Contract documentation: an introduction
- Schedules of work: an introduction
- Specifications: an introduction
- Specifications: problems in practice
- Specifications: product selection process
It also contains reading lists and links in four other related modules:
- Health and safety plans
- Conditions of contract
- Production drawings
- Bills of quantities.
NBS Educator is available at www.thenbs.com/training/educator/index.asp
Material type: Online Learning
Course
Using NBS Engineering Services
On completion of the course you will be confident that you can:
- Recognise and understand the structure of work sections which is based upon the Common Arrangement Work Sections (CAWS).
- Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus.
- Supplement existing NBS Guidance with your own office knowledge.
- Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification, saving time in the specification writing process and ensuring consistency. - Format and print the specification.
- Print specialist reports.
- Define user access to specifications and preliminaries.
- Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process.
- Create, edit and import project schedules
Material type: Course
Course
Specification Management and Administration
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Utilise administration tools to ensure office wide functionality and performance, helping to maintain a standard layout of documents created within the software.
- Retrospectively apply document permissions, ensuring that as the project grows, so do the team who can work on the specification.
- Understand office standards and the recommended steps in their creation.
- Use updating tools to enable safe reuse of project specifications.
- Discuss good practice in using NBS Specification writing software.
Material type: Course
Course
Using NBS Contract Administrator
By the end of the course you will be able to:
- Set up and use resources needed to create a project within NBS Contract Administrator
- Create a project within NBS Contract Administrator.
- Use the expert written help and Guidance to select, complete and print RIBA Forms, making it easier for those unfamiliar with the Contract Administration process.
- Run reports and track costs and activities across a project, removing the need to manually update a separate records of costs.
Material type: Course
Course
Using NBS Building
On completion of the course you will be confident that you can:
- Recognise and understand the structure of work sections which is based upon the Common Arrangement Work Sections (CAWS).
- Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus.
- Supplement existing NBS Guidance with your own office knowledge.
- Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification, saving time in the specification writing process and ensuring consistency. - Format and print the specification.
- Print specialist reports.
- Define user access to specifications and preliminaries.
- Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process.

Material type: Course
Course
Using NBS Landscape
On completion of the course you will be confident that you can:
- Recognise and understand the structure of work sections which is based upon the Common Arrangement Work Sections (CAWS).
- Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus.
- Supplement existing NBS Guidance with your own office knowledge.
- Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification, saving time in the specification writing process and ensuring consistency. Format and print the specification.
- Print specialist reports.
- Define user access to specifications and preliminaries.
- Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process.
Material type: Course
Course
Using NBS Scheduler
This seminar is for NBS Scheduler users who wish to prepare schedules of work for smaller scale new build or refurbishment projects where a bill of quantities is not required:
– write schedules of work using the NBS Libraries or based on a NBS Template or previous schedule
– edit your schedule to be project specific by adding or removing NBS properties, work items and constructions
– create user-defined constructions, work items and properties
– format and print the finished document
– attach trades to work items and produce a trade report
– write, format and print your prelims
Material type: Course
Online Learning
NBS TV
Built Environment video content offering high quality b2b professional programming for:
- Architects
- Surveyors
- Civil Engineers
- Planners and
- other related construction professionals

The video programmes provide an easy, effective and enjoyable way to stay up to date and gain CPD points. Through a wide range of video programmes - available as a benefit of subscription to both NBS and Campus subscribers,, current professional challenges are identified and investigated. An insight is provided into topical planning, legal, regulatory and technological issues, using debate and in-depth interviews. Informative documentaries and stimulating case studies along with valuable input from the RIBA, RICS, ICE, RTPI, an independent editorial panel and leading architects and construction industry professionals, advisors and consultants, ensures that viewers gain maximum exposure to new developments within the industry. Inspiring location reports and in-depth interviews with leading experts and specialists take you from the comfort of your seat, straight to the heart of the latest projects, developments and legal and regulatory updates.
Material type: Online Learning

Classifications

NBS, Div of RIBA Enterprises Ltd has CPD Materials in the following areas: -

RIBA Core Curriculum areas