Architecture

• Barbour 

Barbour is a health and safety information service providing information sourced from over 900 providers. Information within it includes legislation, technical guides and best practice along with director level briefings and employee training guides. The legislation diary identifies all known upcoming changes in legislation relating to different health and safety topics.

The following video from Barbour shows you how to get the best from this resource

• BCIS Online 

The Building Costs Information Service provides independent cost information to the construction industry.

• Construction Information Service 

A key source of up-to-date technical information for the architecture and construction industries. Information includes building regulations, advice notes, British Standards, government reports as well as journal articles, e.g. from the Architects' Journal and books such as the Metric Handbook. You can also link out to the AJ website and read digital editions of the Architects' Journal. Watch the video to find out how.

You can access Architect's Journal from 2014 onwards for the University of Portsmouth.

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• Digimap 

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

Digimap is a collection of EDINA services that deliver maps and map data of Great Britain. We subscribe to the complete collection which provides access to modern and historic Ordnance Survey mapping, geological mapping, aerial photography, Lidar data, demographic data and more.

• Material District 

'Join Now' to access full details of this website of innovative materials.

• NHBC Standards 

The NHBC Standards give the technical requirements, performance standards and guidance for the design and construction of new homes acceptable to NHBC (National House Building Council).

• Product Selector Plus 

Access building product information online. This database provides access to resources such as catalogues and technical summaries.