Construction Information Service (CIS)

CIS is produced jointly with NBS especially for architects, civil and structural engineers, building control officers, building services engineers and other professionals in the construction industry. CIS provides fundamental industry information and legislation, as well as additional sector material. The extensive range of full-text scanned documents cover all aspects of the building, engineering, design and construction process, allowing you to complete projects accurately and on time.

Delivered Online or on Cd-ROM CIS has more than 3,000 key users that rely on rapid access to the information they require. It is proven in use at many networked locations as well as on stand alone personal computers. No other information service has a comparable track record.

Benefits at a glance:

• Search facility on LANTAC, search for building regulation approvals issued under LANTAC, consisting of Type Approval and a group of other schemes including: System Approval, Non-Residential Approval and Temporary Structures Approval.
• A new and revised documents feature - enables the user to view the latest additions at the click of a button
• In partnership with industry leaders Emap, CIS now provides access to AJ+, NCE+, CN+ and news feed services, giving up to the minute construction news and events
• CIS online features PreCIS, a designated online site designed to help the customer gain more from their CIS subscription including an exclusive members area containing industry news and articles and access to CIS Roundup, the monthly topical bulletin for CIS users
• A neat document summary viewer - allows users to scan document summaries from within the results list
• An upgraded browse by feature - now presents at a glance, the number of documents available for a particular publisher, subject or series
• Enhanced graphics - carefully designed to provide the user with an appealing and professional interface, while allowing fast location and operation of relevant features.

CIS can be supplied only to members of the British Standards Institution or to subscribers who become members within one year of delivery.

CIS can also be used in conjunction with NBS's BRAD, NBS Engineering Service, Specification Manager, Specification Writer, Landscape and Scheduler.

CIS - Editorial Profile
The construction industry is enormously varied. To meet the specialist needs of users from such a wide range of disciplines, CIS is offered in sections so that customers may mix and match to create the information resource they need.We begin with the Core Service, which is the basic service. Optional sections cover supplementary material; they are not available separately from the Core Service.

Construction Information Service (CIS) is marketed by our UK office.