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The Building Surveyor’s Institute of Japan (BSIJ) has adopted NBS’s Uniclass unified classification system.

NBS has launched a Uniclass tool aimed at increasing adoption levels of the unified classification structure.

That Uniclass 2015 is the classification system used to organise information across all construction industry disciplines is something of a given, but how else can the system be used?

A Uniclass Advisory Board (UAB) has been launched with a remit to advise on potential improvements to Uniclass 2015, the classification system used to organise information across all construction industry disciplines.

The in-house estates team at the Houses of Parliament has called in support from NBS to help classify its historic items for a BIM environment using the Uniclass system.