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Good Practice Guide Making Successful Planning Applications

How do you obtain permission? How can you satisfactorily tackle objections? How can you convince planning officers of the value of your work? Drawing on substantial experience from both applicant and local planning authority perspectives this book provides tactics and practical steps to help architects secure early validation of applications and successful outcomes. It’s a practical guide to understanding the planning system and maximizing the potential for successful outcomes. Readers will develop a greater understanding of the principles that are vital in the preparation and negotiation of applications against the very complex detail of regulatory arrangements. | Good Practice Guide Making Successful Planning Applications

GBP 32.00

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Architect's Guide to NEC4

This user friendly guide introduces explains and demystifies the NEC4 contract on a practical work-based level. Made for architects by an architect it explores the best approach to collaborative and contractual partnering work practices. Alongside explanations of the contracts and clauses it presents the key areas of distinction from alternative standard form contracts and examines the integrated project management principles that bring the NEC4 contracts together as a whole. It's the perfect companion book for professionals who are new to the NEC contract family and former users trying to understand the latest updates. | Architect's Guide to NEC4

GBP 27.00

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RIBA Climate Guide

Climate change is a threat to humankind which requires immediate action. The built environment has a vital role to play in responding to the climate emergency. There is a pressing need for architects to acquire the requisite skills and knowledge to design buildings that deliver sustainable outcomes meeting the RIBA 2030 Climate Challenge and mandatory competence in climate literacy. Equipping you with the key information that built environment professionals require to halt climate change and mitigate its impacts in your day-to-day work this book is organised around six overarching topics: 1. Human Factors 2. Circular Economy 3. Energy and Carbon 4. Water 5. Ecology and Biodiversity 6. Connectivity and Transport Featuring images and original illustrations each themed section will guide you through fundamental elements and competencies for creating a sustainable design and delivery framework that can be implemented by you in your practice. Contextualising the climate emergency within the built environment landscape the guide maps out the essential background knowledge around climate science international agreements legislations commitments and roadmaps. A collection of short building- and urban-scale case studies present key takeaways illustrating real-life applications of design strategies and industry-wide tools as well as standards that are deployed in climate-conscious built environments all around the world. | RIBA Climate Guide

GBP 40.00

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Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016

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 subject clearly distinguishing the different obligations due to various parties and the contractual issues arising during the course of a job - all backed up by the latest legislation and case law.

GBP 52.00

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Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

This book is an authoritative but uniquely accessible and highly illustrated guide to good acoustic design practice for architects interior designers and acoustic professionals. It provides a user-friendly introduction to architectural acoustics and acoustics technology where the market is crowded with dense and technical texts. It will go through each typology in turn explaining the key acoustic concepts with highly illustrated and international case studies that demonstrate cutting-edge practice and technology innovative design techniques and common challenges and solutions. | Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

GBP 52.00

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Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

Find that you’re spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study? Or that you have drifted into detailed design without formalising an appropriate form of appointment? This practical guide details the benefits of a feasibility study. Once you’ve secured the commission how do you ensure you’re following current best practice? Aimed at architects it identifies the pitfalls involved in undertaking a feasibility study and explains how to set boundaries organise the process and manage clients’ aspirations. By featuring recent live projects alongside advice from successful architectural practices it illustrates how a feasibility study can help achieve positive outcomes and avoid the dangers of a poorly defined brief and service proposal. Presenting the client’s as well as the architect’s perspective this publication highlights why a feasibility study is a sensible way of establishing viability prior to committing to a full-service commission. It underlines the significance of ‘adding value’ as an architect. | Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

GBP 25.00

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Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you how to analyse trouble pre-emptively tackle pitfalls and gives you confidence in decision-making to stay ahead. Featuring case studies with expert insight into sole shareholder and director experience of a small practice it’s aimed across all levels with straightforward honest and accessible advice. It is structured with people and organisations as the core framework exploring practice staff clients projects consultants and providers. It provides operational advice on the day-to-day running of practice and how to respond to disruption. | Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

GBP 32.00

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Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Written by a leading proponent of biophilic design this is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits principles and processes of biophilic design Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice across a range of international case studies – at different scales and different typologies. Starting with the principles of biophilic design and the principles and processes in practice the book then showcases a variety of interior spaces – residential retail workplace hospitality education healthcare and manufacturing. The final chapter looks ‘outside the walls’ giving a case study at the campus and city scale. With practical guidance and real-world solutions that can be directly-applied in day-to-day practice this is a must-have for designers interested in applying biophilic principles. | Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

GBP 47.00

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Guide to RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2018

This latest title from the author provides comprehensive guidance to RIBA's two updated building contracts: the RIBA Domestic Building Contract 2018 and the RIBA Concise Building Contract 2018. Introducing the contracts' features and benefits and covering all aspects of their use from choosing and forming the right one for your project to guiding the parties through all its various stages the Guide has been expanded with increased assistance on choice of form tendering and contract formation. Additional detail on role and liabilities of contract administrator has been added along with a new section on practical completion and completion including certification. Assuming no current knowledge of the law or contract administration this acts as a standalone guide for new users of the RIBA contracts as well as a valuable update for previous users. It is an ideal companion for anybody using the latest building contracts. | Guide to RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2018

GBP 35.00

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RIBA Health and Safety Guide

To ensure chartered architects are reaching a high standard of health and safety knowledge and the life safety of building users the RIBA has introduced an online test based on a comprehensive curriculum to test for competency. This guide is designed to improve industry understanding of issues in accordance with CDM Regulations and prepare architects for the health and safety test. It provides practitioners with the required knowledge regarding site safety hazards and design risk management to discharge their professional services and legal duties competently and safely. The 2nd edition features an update to the content relating to design risk management and statue to reflect the changes proposed by the Act and the Regulations as well as a review of the relationship between these and the existing regime under the CDM Regulations. It includes a new chapter that sets out some of the detail of duties under the Act and the Regulations including practical examples of how designer/architects might discharge their duties as designers and lead designers considering how it compares to existing duties under the CDM Regulations. | RIBA Health and Safety Guide

GBP 29.00

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RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

Ethical practice distinguishes an RIBA chartered architect from other design professionals. The RIBA Code of Professional Conduct requires practitioners to uphold high standards while encouraging and empowering them to reflect critically and to continually strive to improve. The Grenfell Tower tragedy was a significant reminder of the ethical responsibilities of the architect and the importance of ethical decision-making. By making ethical practice one of its mandatory competences the RIBA has made it a requirement that students and professionals develop a fundamental level of awareness and understanding of ethics. This guide is designed to improve industry’s grasp of ethical decision-making as it relates to the wider world society clients the workplace the profession and the individual. Each chapter introduces an ethical duty setting out the relevant legal regulatory and professional context before exploring the detailed subject matter and key principles. It includes an ethical dilemma for each duty and views and experiences from inside the profession. Delving into issues of equity diversity and inclusion social value wellbeing and integrity it does not seek our ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers. Rather it encourages reflection on different interests consequences and considerations in order to reach a considered and balanced position. While ethical practice is invaluable in itself it is also vital for establishing trust with clients improving transparency enhancing reputation attracting and retaining high-quality staff avoiding disputes and for a high-level of accountability that benefits the entire industry and society more broadly. | RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

GBP 30.00

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How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

Studying architecture is hugely exciting and rewarding. It entails developing design skills problem-solving abilities and tapping into creativity as well as acquiring cultural technical and professional knowledge. This book is the go-to guide for students throughout their architectural education. It introduces architecture students to all they need to know to get on an architecture course thrive at school and be prepared for the realities of becoming a practising architect. Split into three main sections – Part I (BA or BSC in Architecture) Part II (Masters or Diploma) and Part III (Advanced Diploma in Professional Practice) – it offers direction on all aspects of an architectural education. These range from initial tutorials the first crit and essay-writing through to the development of final project and thesis work. Covering all bases it is a comprehensive guide for a student’s passage from university preparation through to undergraduate and graduate study and out into the profession. It features RIBA UK architecture schools and those validated overseas as well as a short final chapter on architectural education elsewhere in the world. | How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

GBP 24.00

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Good Practice Guide Fees

Architects are finding the procurement landscape increasingly complex and competitive. This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects professional services contracts how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills. It also includes information on how to monitor and manage fees and the resources required to deliver projects managing change in the scope of the project and related services where to add value and to highlight risk areas that may impact on sustaining the business. Case studies explain good and bad practice to illustrate effective fee management drawn from the authors’ direct experience as practitioners and investigating client complaints. | Good Practice Guide Fees

GBP 32.00

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Interior Design A Professional Guide

This is a benchmark book which encourages interior designers to raise their professional status and offers their clients an insight into the complex profession of modern interior design. It demystifies what an interior designer does and showcases the range of skills that interior designers can bring to a project to help achieve a successful outcome. The book attempts to explain the broad scope of the interior design profession including:• the wide range of projects and specialisms• the people roles and relationships• the skills and knowledge that designers need• the benefits of using a designer• the importance of a good client-designer relationship. Case Studies illustrate key points pinpointing important project types and showcasing designers working in specialist fields and include comments from clients and end-users. | Interior Design A Professional Guide

GBP 33.00

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Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Desire lines are the paths that people create through regular usage. They appear where people repeatedly choose to walk and usually signify a route from A to B that’s quicker than the formal path provided. In most cases they indicate the mismatch between what local people want and what designers think people want. By employing some social research basics in the design development process placemakers can work more meaningfully with local communities to meet their needs and aspirations. This is a practical guide to running public consultations co-design and community engagement to help practitioners make the most of local knowledge and insight for the benefit of design. It offers guidance on managing community participation and unapologetically aims to encourage designers to start thinking like social researchers when they undertake these programmes. It’s intended for placemakers - architects urban designers landscape architects and other built environment professionals involved in the planning and design of public realm - who want to develop more people-centred community-led design approaches. | Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

GBP 32.00

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Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Architecture needs women. How can the built environment be designed without the expert input of half the population? In spite of the significant number of women choosing to study architecture as undergraduates once qualified women remain in the minority. As professionals their expertise is often overlooked their work devalued and their contribution to the canon forgotten. Yet women’s work is critical to the sustainability of a profession that must aspire to design high-quality buildings for the whole of society. How can architecture attract recruit and retain women? And how can women find ways to thrive within it? Underpinned by inclusion internationalism and intersectionality this practical guide looks back as well as forward exploring the history of women working in architecture as well as interrogating the contemporary landscape. It provides guidance tips and examples for navigating key points in an architect’s career including education practice projects and promotion. Inspiring case studies of women and women-led practices consider what success means and how to negotiate a route to a fruitful career and a balanced life as an architect. The book covers women architects from all walks of life all sizes of practice and from all over the world including Jeanne Gang Yasmeen Lari and Anupama Kundoo as well as many other historical and contemporary women architects and emerging practices. Featuring guidance on: Understanding the barriers and history of women in architecture Expanding the opportunities and visibility of women in leading roles The importance of role models and mentoring. With a foreword by Jane Duncan OBE PPRIBA. | Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

GBP 35.00

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Retrofitting for Flood Resilience A Guide to Building & Community Design

This book educates and introduce readers to the ways in which we can adapt to the threat of flooding throughout the built and natural environment. It offers advice on how to better understand the nature of flood risk whilst highlighting the key approaches and principles necessary for developing community and property-level flood resilience. As a comprehensive and practical manual this book includes richly illustrated diagrams on a variety of concepts and strategies to use when designing for flood resilience. It is vital resource for anyone looking to adapt to the threat of flood risk. Highly practical handbook for architects students engineers urban planners and other built environment professionals Richly illustrated with practical examples and case studies Draws on research with the Cabinet Office Environment Agency & Local Community as well as input from academic and industry experts homeowners and residents of communities at risk of flooding. | Retrofitting for Flood Resilience A Guide to Building & Community Design

GBP 45.00

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How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

You are a great designer but no-one knows. Now what? This indispensable book written by one of the most influential marketers in architecture will demystify Public Relations and marketing for all architects whether in large practices or practicing as sole practitioners. It bridges the distance between architects and marketing by giving practical tips best practice and anecdotes from an author with 20 years’ experience in architecture marketing. It explains all aspects of PR and Business Development for architects: for example how to write a good press release; how to make a fee proposal; how to prepare for a pitch. It gives examples of how others do it well and the pitfalls to avoid. In addition it discusses more general aspects which are linked to PR and BD such as being a good employer ethics for architects and the challenges when working abroad. Featuring vital insights from a wide variety of architects from multinational practices to small offices this book is an essential companion to any architectural office. | How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

GBP 34.00

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Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

Ten years ago Clare Nash was struggling with a common problem: how to be an architect and still have a life. With no job no savings and no clients in the midst of a recession Clare set up her own practice with little more than a few postcards in local shop windows and a very simple website. Determined to better combine her life and family with professional work she created an innovative practice that is flexible and forward-looking based around remote working and the possibilities offered by improving technology. Bursting with tips ideas and how-tos on all aspects of designing a working life that suits you and your business this book explains in clear and accessible language how to avoid the common pitfalls of long hours and low pay. It explores how to juggle work with family commitments how to set your own career path and design priorities and how to instil a flexible working culture within a busy lifestyle. Encompasses the full range of life-work challenges: Money fees and cashflow Playing to your personal strengths Outsourcing areas of weakness Building a happy and productive remote-working team Creating a compelling marketing strategy Juggling parenthood and work Studying and honing workplace skills Provides the inside view from innovative practices: alma-nac Gbolade Design Studio Harrison Stringfellow Architects Invisible Studio Architects Office S&M Architects POoR Collective Pride Road Architects and Transition by Design. | Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

GBP 30.00

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Loft Conversion Handbook

This book is an easy-to-use handbook providing architects and builders with up-to-date guidance on managing loft conversions and ensuring they achieve compliance with the Building Regulations. It brings together solutions offered in the Approved Documents and third tier guidance such as industry literature in one concise and fully illustrated guide. Starting with chapters on the existing structure the guide is then divided into chapters on the main considerations for a loft conversion covering topics such as fire safety windows and doors and insulation. This is an essential read for anyone looking for a guide which simplifies the building regulations process and offers solutions where applicable to achieve minimum good practice and advanced construction standards. | Loft Conversion Handbook

GBP 33.00

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PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Passive House is a leading low energy building standard. An important tool for designing Passive House buildings is the Passive House Planning Package (PHPP). This book is an essential guide to the PHPP and sets out clear and easy-to-follow steps for inputting and understanding a building in PHPP. Fully-revised and updated this new edition provides essential updates on the latest version of the Planning Package - an essential read for any architects designers and students wanting utilise the PHPP as a design tool. A short pragmatic guide ideal for the time-poor A very visual easy-to-use guide allowing you to quickly get to grips with PHPP Designed for both practitioners and students - you don't need prior experience of low-energy or Passive House design. | PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

GBP 47.00

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Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

How is technology shaping our built environment and changing the practice of architecture? This book explores how buildings and spaces are designed built used and better understood through technology. A practical guide to technical advances including Internet of Things (IoT) 3D printing innovative materials and robotics Smart Buildings also outlines the opportunities for architecture including improved communication flexibility wellbeing productivity and data collection. Bringing together multidisciplinary contributions and case studies from across the globe this book provides an inspiring practical guide on how technology can inspire new architectural ideas improving quality comfort health and wellbeing in the built environment | Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

GBP 45.00

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Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

This is a practical guide to delivering green infrastructure from the ground up and bringing nature in to the built environment. Exploring the process of delivery through an array of design approaches and case studies it demystifies the concept and provides the tools for practical implementation - highlighting the challenges and opportunities on both small and large projects. | Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

GBP 38.00

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Home Extension Design

This book is a practical guide for homeowners with checklists and guidance on how to make their project successful. Most people considering a significant alteration to their home have no experience or knowledge of the process that has to be followed to make their project successful and the consequences of things going wrong are serious. As with the first edition this fully-revised guide distils all of the practical information needed to run a project from dream to reality highlighting the pitfalls along the way and suggesting ways to avoid them. Peppered with inspirational case studies and giving indications of costs and timescales Home Extension Design 2e demystifies both the building process and all the surrounding issues to do with design sustainability budgeting planning regulations and the use of building contracts. This book is the essential go-to resource for reliable independent advice on how to set up and run a building project.

GBP 45.00

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How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

Brimming with design ideas drawings and photographs of exemplary projects this is a must-have highly visual guide to extending a Victorian terraced house for designers architects and homeowners. An essential resource for designing and delivering a wide variety of extensions it features case studies from the full gamut of nineteenth-century terrace house types. Detailed plans reveal floor by floor a range of options for extending and/or reconfiguring space. Colour-coded before-and-after plans show at a glance which walls have been removed or changed in each option. This is complemented by extensive colour photography of realised built work. Ideas and inspiration are supplemented by practical guidance with ‘rules of thumb’ for design and key information on permitted development rights. All plans are drawn to scale so that they may be measured from and used for planning any renovation project. Covering different types of briefs and design solutions this indispensable guide to renovating Victorian terraces features extensions loft conversions basements and interior remodelling. It contains over 150 floor plans and 100 full-page colour images. | How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

GBP 45.00

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Good Practice Guide Making Successful Planning Applications

Architect's Guide to NEC4

RIBA Climate Guide

Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016

Architectural Acoustics A guide to integrated thinking

Feasibility Studies An Architect’s Guide

Good Practice Guide Business Resilience

Nature Inside A biophilic design guide

Guide to RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2018

RIBA Health and Safety Guide

RIBA Ethical Practice Guide

How to Thrive at Architecture School A Student Guide

Good Practice Guide Fees

Interior Design A Professional Guide

Desire Lines A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Thrive A field guide for women in architecture

Retrofitting for Flood Resilience A Guide to Building & Community Design

How To Win Work The architect's guide to business development and marketing

Design your life An architect’s guide to achieving a work/life balance

Loft Conversion Handbook

PHPP Illustrated A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Smart Buildings Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

Nature of the City Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Home Extension Design

How to Extend Your Victorian Terraced House

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