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National Building Specification logo. NBS (National Building Specification) is a UK-based business providing construction specification information used by architects, engineers and other building professionals to describe the materials, standards and workmanship of a construction project. [1]
The Common Arrangement is the authoritative UK classification of work sections for building work, for use in arranging project specifications and bills of quantities. Over 300 work sections are defined in detail to give: good coordination between drawings, specifications and bills of quantities; predictability of location of relevant information
"50 Divisions" is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the United States and Canada. [5] Standardizing the presentation of such information improves communication among all parties.
The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada.
This arrangement of specification section information is otherwise known as “three-part format” [7] and is expected and commonplace throughout the North American construction industry. CSI first published SectionFormat in 1969, the most current edition was published in 2008.
MasterFormat is a standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada. [1] Sometimes referred to as the "Dewey Decimal System" of building construction, MasterFormat is a product of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI) and Construction Specifications Canada (CSC).
BS 47 Steel Fishplates for Bullhead and Flat Bottom Railway Rails, Specification and Sections of; BS 48 Specification for Wrought Iron of Smithing Quality for Shipbuilding (Grade D) BS 49 Specification for Ammeters and Voltmeters; BS 50 Third Report on Locomotives for Indian Railways (Superseding Nos. 5 and 26)
Uniclass 2015 is a unified classification system for all sectors of the UK construction industry. [1] It contains consistent tables classifying items of all scales, from entire systems such as a railway to individual product items such as anchor plates, flue liners or LED lamps.