I got a nice email from Levitt Bernstein’s Andy Jobling yesterday, he’d found some of the very first reviews of NBS from the Architects’ Journal from back in 1974. Since I started working on developing NBS in 1999 Andy has always been one of those that has been hugely supportive with ideas on our customer groups and also one-to-one sessions. So a big thanks to Andy for sending this through.Click the scans below to see them at a larger size.
10th July 1974 – Architects’ Journal
Some interesting points from the first article:
- An interesting debate over specification responsibility – architect or quantity surveyor?
- Drawings, specifications, bills and schedules were not coordinated adequately
- Controversary on classification 🙂 – SMM or CI/SfB?
- Computers mentioned – but generally ‘architect makes amends to clauses and hands it to a secretary to type the clause in full‘
- Stressing that specification needs to be done by a professional – Modify NBS ‘wisely rather than wilfully‘.
- Mentions of names…