Small Projects Handbook

Nigel Ostime

RIBA Publishing

The Architecture Drawing Book: RIBA Collections

Charles Hind

Fiona Orsini

Susan Pugh

This book explains the contemporary management processes and strategies employed by practising professionals during the running of construction projects. It takes its framework from the RIBA Plan of Work and the editors have successfully used this framework to evaluate the architect's role at each stage of the construction process.  The book presents construction as an interactive activity where the best skills of designers, constructors, and facility managers are employed to maximise user delight and function, and enhance the overall quality of the built environment. The editors have integrated the best expertise drawn from the academic world and have commissioned authors from many countries. Academics and practitioners have been hamessed together to produce chapters on each step in the Plan of Work: these chapters contain the very best theoretical analysis provided by the academic partner with case illustrations supplied by the practitioner. This combination of theory and practice provides ideas and applications to all steps in the architect's role.

Architect's Handbook of Construction Project Management

Arts & Photography

Langford, David

Architecture

Re-readings: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings (500 Tips)

Re-readings is an authoritative testament to the complex process of remodelling existing buildings. Although buildings have always been reused, the process of doing so has rarely been treated as an artform. In recent years, however, a huge amount of press coverage has been devoted to remodelling projects such as the Tate Modern in London, the Baltic Art Factory in Gateshead, the Grand Louvre pyramid and courtyard, and the Reichstag in Berlin, to name but a few.  By attracting prestigious architects to its practice, it would appear that remodelling, once the dowdy cousin of the more glamorous architecture, has gained a new respectability. Re-readings responds to remodelling as an artform, making sense of the considerable structural, aesthetic, environmental, contextual and programmatic challenges of remodelling existing buildings. Illustrated throughout with a rich international portfolio of case studies, it explains the theory behind the way that architects and designers interpret and adapt buildings.

STONE, SALLY

This new edition of Designing for Accessibility is an up-to-date and user-friendly good practice guide based on the 2004 Approved Document M and BS 8300:2001, in the context of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (DDA). It includes extensive plans and dimensional data illustrating internal and external features that commonly need attention in public buildings. The design recommendations occasionally go beyond those specified in Part M and BS 8300, reflecting good practice derived from user experience, good design and, where possible, empirical research.

Designing for Accessibility

Lacey, Andrew

Now updated in line with the new Part M to the Building Regulations and BS 8300:2001, the Good Loo Design Guide takes an inclusive approach to the provision of WCs to suit a wide a range of users, and gives guidance on various WC layouts.The Good Loo Design Guide includes advice on planning, distribution and management issues and on resolving potential conflicts between the needs of disabled people and other users. In situations where it may not be possible to follow all best practice guidelines (for example, in very small buildings), this guide will assist in thinking through the issues and coming up with creative solutions which will go a long way towards meeting the needs of many disabled people. Architects, developers, building control officers and other building professionals will find this a useful guide in helping to design the enabling environments that disabled people seek.

Good Loo Design Guide 2004

Manchester, a radical, gritty northern metropolis initiated a new way of working in the 18th century, creating extraordinary wealth for the whole nation, defining a new way of living with suburbs for the middle classes, and inner city terraces for the working classes. In the 21st century, Manchester is undergoing a remarkable renaissance, transforming itself through an investment in physical infrastructure, prestige projects and quality architecture. Manchester creates one third of the Northwest region's wealth and is determined to become a leading European city, with a wide range of imaginative strategies in place to achieve this aim.  Manchester: Shaping the City demonstrates the constant spirit and originality of Manchester's people and the physical, social and economic improvements, which continue to drive the city forward. It includes a timeline of critical regeneration activity and events over the last twenty years using case studies such as No 1 Springfields, Urbis, No 1 Deansgate and Beetham Tower, to name but a few, to illustrate the processes involved in this major physical regeneration of the city, and the contribution of these processes to future projects. The book is just the beginning of the next chapter in Manchester's history. A city that has proved it has the ambition, confidence, and determination to keep its place amongst the key regional cities in Europe.

Manchester: Shaping the City

Institute Of British Architects

Manchester City Council

What can good design offer the hospital, a functionally distinct building type showing considerable consistency of component parts and key issues around the world? Few well-known architects have been involved in the design of hospitals and even fewer big architectural awards have been won. And yet in almost no other building type are the consequences of getting the design wrong quite so serious. Richly illustrated in full colour, "Changing Hospital Architecture" shows what can be achieved by reflecting on the UK's current huge hospital building programme in the light of historical and international experience. It is aimed at architects and other construction professionals in the health sector as well as health policy makers, and points to potential exemplars, presents key issues and occasionally signals caution.An international survey of case studies is drawn from countries with developed industrial economies and healthcare practices of direct relevance to the UK. The introduction is followed by three chapters that set the scene: a post-War history of the British hospital; an examination of the crucial and undervalued early inception stages of a hospital; and, a revealing analysis of the changing context of the financing and construction of hospitals. Four chapters present evidence from around the world, spotlighting the UK, Europe, the USA and Australia. Finally, the book closes with a speculation on the architectural form of the future hospital.

Changing Hospital Architecture

International Construction Contract Management is a comprehensive, easy to understand and practical reference book for construction professionals working on overseas projects. Written by Bryan Morgan, a surveyor and contract claims consultant with over 40 years' experience of construction contract and claims-related management from around the world, this book has been designed specifically to help in overcoming the day-to-day contractual problems encountered in the field. Organised topic by topic in alphabetical order and supplemented by sample forms and checklists, International Construction Contract Management will be of use to architects, engineers, project managers, contract managers, claims consultants, quantity surveyors, contract administrators and contract engineers.

International Construction Contract Management: An alphabetical reference guide

Morgan, D. Bryan

Part of the 'Specifiers' Handbooks for Inclusive Design series', Automatic Door Systems covers detailed aspects of automatic door systems. It offers practical guidance to help specifiers understand the different types of automatic door systems available, the factors contributing to their design and specification, and related legislation, building regulations and designs, and is supported by case study examples which illustrate different types of system in a range of situations.

Automatic Door Systems: Specifiers Handbook for Inclusive Design (Specifers' Handbook for Inclusive Design Series)

Grant, Alison

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