National Building Specification
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. Its information is now used by over 5000 offices.
A specification often forms part of the tender documentation along with mechanical drawings for a contractor to price and then forms part of the contract documentation for the builder to construct the building.

The benefit of utilising NBS is that our products via NBS source can be downloaded directly to NBS chorus.
NBS chorus can:
- Improve accuracy to keep your specification accurate with high quality content maintained by NBS’s team of specialists,
- Work faster to create specifications up to 70% faster than using Microsoft Word or other software
- Develop your design model and spec simultaneously
- Collaborate seamlessly by inviting multiple users to develop specification collaboratively
- Work Anywhere NBS Chorus is cloud based
- Specify better with informed manufacturer product decisions in the specification environment with NBS source