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  2. National Building Specification - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Nature-based solutions - Wikipedia

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    The term nature-based solutions was put forward by practitioners in the late 2000s. At that time it was used by international organisations such as the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the World Bank in the context of finding new solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change effects by working with natural ecosystems rather than relying purely on engineering interventions.

  4. N-Bromosuccinimide - Wikipedia

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    N-Bromosuccinimide or NBS is a chemical reagent used in radical substitution, electrophilic addition, and electrophilic substitution reactions in organic chemistry. NBS can be a convenient source of Br • , the bromine radical.

  5. Common Arrangement of Work Sections - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Japanese architect brings example of 'paper tube home' to Maui

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    A renowned Japanese architect has brought an example of a quick-build home for displaced fire survivors to Maui. Shigeru Ban, who is known for building emergency housing using recyclable paper ...

  7. RIBA Product Selector - Wikipedia

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    RIBA Product Selector was a two-volume hardback directory of construction product manufacturers, service providers and advisory organisations for specifying building materials published by the commercial arm of the RIBA, RIBA Enterprises (now known as NBS Enterprises Ltd). It was published on an annual basis and distributed to construction ...

  8. Uniclass - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.