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Author Charles Campion
Release Date 2019/08

Community involvement in planning and placemaking through early, inclusive participatory methods can build consensus, speed up planning and add social, economic and environmental value to projects, leading to healthier, happier and more sustainable places. 20/20 Visions i....

Guide to RIBA Professional Services Contracts 2018

Author Ian Davies
Release Date 2019/08

The 2018 edition of this guide explains how to use, understand and get the most out of the RIBA Professional Services Contracts, which have been updated from the RIBA Agreements 2010 (and 2012 revision). With guidance on how to choose, prepare and complete the right contr....

Guide to JCT Design and Build Contract 2016

Author Sarah Lupton
Release Date 2019/08

Guide to JCT Design and Build Contract 2016, the new edition of the author's ever popular Guide to DB11, is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Design & Build Building Contract suite 2016. All of the contract's provisions, proc....

Domestic Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect

Author Nigel Ostime
Release Date 2019/08

If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-date regarding legislation, it sets out everything you need to be aware of, for a large or small domestic project. The right arc....

The Design Companion for Planning and Placemaking

Author TfL and TfL and UDL
Release Date 2019/08

This book is an essential primer to help those involved in planning secure higher standards of　building, open space and neighbourhood design and the delivery of better places. The UK Government’s policy for design in the planning system is contained in the National Planni....

Financial Management

Author Brian Pinder-Ayres
Release Date 2019/08

Most newly qualified architects have scant knowledge about the practicalities of running a practice and in particular the challenges of managing the financial side of the business. This book highlights the major financial risks and how these can be avoided.The chapters gi....

Building Revolutions

Author Dave Cheshire
Release Date 2019/08

The construction industry operates within a linear economy of make, use, dispose. Buildings are stripped out and torn down with astonishing regularity while new buildings are constructed from hard-won virgin materials. But raw materials are becoming scarce, and the demand....

Biomimicry in Architecture, 2nd Edition

Author Michael Pawlyn
Release Date 2019/08

When searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly restorative - we often find that nature got there first. Over 3.5 billion years of natural history have evolved innumerable examples of....

A Gendered Profession

Author James Benedict Brown , Harriet Harriss , Ruth Morrow
Release Date 2019/08

The issue of gender inequality in architecture has been part of the profession’s discourse for many years, yet the continuing gender imbalance in architectural education and practice remains a difficult subject. This book seeks to change that. It provides the first ever a....

Contemporary Vernacular Design

Author Clare Nash
Release Date 2019/08

This book presents 25 international housing schemes that draw on traditional vernacular principles whilst taking into account modern day materials, methods and financial or energy requirements. The aim is to show how, despite mass housing needs, we can design quality mode....

Light in Architecture

Author Elisa Valero Ramos
Release Date 2019/08

Light in Architecture explores the role and use of light in and around buildings from the time that Stonehenge was built through to the present day, illustrating how a greater understanding of this intangible and free material will lead us to better architecture and, ulti....

Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016

Author Sarah Lupton
Release Date 2019/08

Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016 is a practical guide to the operation and administration of JCTs IC16 suite of building contracts including both IC and ICD. All of the contracts provisions, procedures and conditions are organised and explained by subjec....

Commercial Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect

Author Nigel Ostime
Release Date 2019/08

If you need to understand about engaging the services of an architect, this updated RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up-to-date regarding legislation, it sets out everything you need to be aware of, for a large or small commercial project. The right a....

BIM for Construction Health and Safety

Author Stefan Mordue , Roland Finch
Release Date 2019/08

What is BIM and how does it affect the health and safety professional? How are BIM technologies used on a practical level? What opportunities are there for the use of BIM in the health and safety arena?This concise and practical guide aims to answer all these questions an....

Guide to the RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2014

Author Sarah Lupton
Release Date 2019/08

This latest title from Sarah Lupton, best-selling author of construction contract guides, provides comprehensive guidance to the RIBA’s two new building contracts: the RIBA Domestic Building Contract 2014 and the RIBA Concise Building Contract 2014.Introducing the contrac....

Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, 6th Edition

Author Saul K. Fenster , Ansel C. Ugural
Release Date 2019/07

The Leading Practical Guide to Stress Analysis–Updated with State-of-the-Art Methods, Applications, and ProblemsThis widely acclaimed exploration of real-world stress analysis reflects advanced methods and applications used in today's mechanical, civil, marine, ae....

Avoiding and Resolving Disputes

Author Bart Kavanagh
Release Date 2019/07

Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes – from tips on avoiding them in the first place and informally negotiating issues as they arise, to how to go about settling full-blown disput....

New Design for Old Buildings

Author Roger Hunt , Iain Boyd
Release Date 2019/07

This book is a celebration of good new design for old buildings and the SPAB philosophy that good new architecture can sit happily alongside old and is preferable to pastiche. Endorsing the value of architects who are engaged to work in the historic environment, this book....

Principal Designer's Handbook

Author Association for Project Safety
Release Date 2019/07

The new CDM regulations came into force on 6th April 2015 changing the face of pre-construction health and safety management on construction projects, large and small. This handbook provides a comprehensive road map to undertaking the new Principal Designer role brings pr....

Sustainability

Author Sandy Halliday , Richard Atkins
Release Date 2019/07

Sustainability is part of a brand new series providing must-read practical guidance to running efficient and successful projects using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013. Each guide takes a core project task – in this case those associated with achieving sustainable design an....

How Buildings Work

Author Huw A Evans
Release Date 2019/07

An understanding of building physics is fundamental for the design and construction of safe, functional, energy efficient buildings. Without it, occupants’ health and comfort is compromised, energy bills become unmanageable, or the building fabric itself can fail. But it’....

Future Campus

Author Ian Taylor
Release Date 2019/07

This book is to help architects, design teams and University clients (estates departments, and academics) in their pursuit of practical and innovative solutions for the creation of enabling higher education learning environments. It includes abundant examples of solu....

Revolution

Author Drew Plunkett
Release Date 2019/07

The last half of the twentieth century saw the emergence, evolution and consolidation of a distinct interior design practice and profession. This book is invaluable for students and practitioners, providing a detailed specialist, contemporary historical analysis of their ....

Planning, Politics and City-Making

Author Peter Bishop , Lesley Williams
Release Date 2019/07

Whilst there is extensive literature analysing the design and function of new buildings and places, the actual process through which development proposals are actually fashioned – through complex negotiation and deal making, involving many different stakeholders with diff....

An Architect's Guide to Public Procurement

Author Fin Garvey
Release Date 2019/07

There is suspicion in the UK and across Europe that the upcoming introduction of new European Directives will encourage a regime of conservatism and legal risk aversion, fostering the delivery of mediocre and banal building design. This book dispels these myths and instea....

Future Schools

Author Nick Mirchandani , Sharon Wright
Release Date 2019/07

Uniquely Future Schools not only provides design guidance on themes in schools architecture and a wealth of recent innovative projects drawn from the UK but also an understanding of the socio-political and economic context that any practice must work within when taking on....

Construction

Author Phil Holden
Release Date 2019/07

This is the third in a must-have series of step-by-step guides to using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 on your project. Drawing together stages 4, 5 and 6 this book explains what needs to have been achieved for Technical Design to begin, how to achieve success in the cons....

Briefing

Author Paul Fletcher , Hilary Satchwell
Release Date 2019/07

This is the first in a must-have series of step-by-step guides to using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 on your project. Drawing together Stages 7, 0 and 1 this book is about much more than briefing; it guides you through the brand new Stage 0 – Strategic Definition – as w....

Design

Author Tim Bailey
Release Date 2019/07

This is the second in a must-have series of step-by-step guides to using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 on your project. Drawing together stages 2 and 3 this book explains the importance of the Concept Design and Developed Design, how to achieve a balance of creativity an....

Designed to Perform

Author Tom Dollard
Release Date 2019/07

This book is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It takes the form of an annotated details book, with photos taken from live construction sites, with the content based around diagrams, drawings and....

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