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All of our RIBA CPD Approved software training courses can be delivered on site or in public sessions.

Please choose the course for the product to which you subscribe.

Using NBS Engineering Services

An introduction to NBS Engineering Services. For Mechanical and Electrical Engineers who are creating and editing building services specifications.

This introductory course covers common elements but has session content tailored to the individual product. This includes the clauses used and the training manual received.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Recognize and understand the structure of work sections which is based on the Common Arrangement of Work sections (CAWS)
• Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus
• Create new clauses and add User Guidance
• Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification
• Format and print the specification
• Print specialist reports
• Create style sheets for your specification documents
• Set up user access to specifications and preliminaries
• Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process
• Create, edit and import project schedules

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Using NBS Building

An introduction to NBS Building. For specifiers who are creating and editing project specifications.

This introductory course covers common elements but has session content tailored to the individual product. This includes the clauses used and the training manual received.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Recognize and understand the structure of work sections which is based on the Common Arrangement of Work sections (CAWS)
• Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus
• Create new clauses and add User Guidance
• Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification
• Format and print the specification
• Print specialist reports
• Create style sheets for your specification documents
• Set up user access to specifications and preliminaries
• Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process.

Available course dates

Using NBS Landscape

An introduction to NBS Landscape. For landscape architects who are creating and editing landscape specifications.

This introductory course covers common elements but has session content tailored to the individual product. This includes the clauses used and the training manual received.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Recognize and understand the structure of work sections which is based on the Common Arrangement of Work sections (CAWS)
• Create and edit a specification, using clause editing tools, NBS Guidance and NBS Plus
• Create new clauses and add User Guidance
• Understand the concept of office standards as a useful basis for project specification
• Format and print the specification
• Print specialist reports
• Create style sheets for your specification documents
• Set up user access to specifications and preliminaries
• Understand the fundamentals of revisions and their use during the specification process

Available course dates

Specification Management and Administration

A more in-depth look at document management, maintenance and security. A half day course for delegates who have previously attended user level NBS training.

• Utilise the administrator tools - office settings - document permissions, file locations and document reuse
• Understand the use and benefits of project and document security options
• Create a user list to assist with effective document management
• Apply document permissions using the five access levels
• Create, maintain and manage office standards
• Benefit from tools such as ‘editing restrictions’
• Apply and manage revisions to support the audit trail process
• Use updating tools to enable safe reuse of project specifications
• Make efficient use of reports including Main Contractor’s Action Report, Maintenance Log and others
• Customise output using advanced formatting

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Using NBS Scheduler

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

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Using NBS Contract Administrator

By the end of the course you should be able to:

• Set up and use resources needed to create a project in NBS Contract Administrator
• Create a project within NBS Contract Administrator.
• Use the Help and Guidance to select and complete and print RIBA forms.
• Run reports and track costs and activities across a project.

Available course dates

Required skills

A working knowledge of Microsoft Windows. This should include the ability to open a word processing package, start a new file, undertake basic editing such as copy and paste, as well as printing and saving a document.

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