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Architect's Guide to NEC4

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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Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

Shaping our cities streets and public spaces urban design informs the places we live. It is a complex multi-disciplinary process requiring the input of a wide variety of stakeholders and design and construction professionals. Each urban project invariably throws up a new set of problems and strategic decisions for the design team. This guide distils the essential information required for the expert direction of the day-to-day work of urban design from strategic design to masterplanning through to character assessment and collaboration. Compact and accessible with over 250 hand-drawn figures and plans it's the perfect everyday companion for junior practitioners and experienced heads alike across the built environment. | Essential Urban Design A Handbook for Architects Designers and Planners

GBP 37.00
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Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

How do we design in a climate emergency? A new social and ecological prerogative demands appropriate material choices a re-invention of construction and evolving building programmes that look at lifecycle embodied energy and energy use. Highly illustrated with practical information and simple explanations for design ideas this book is the perfect introduction to sustainable design for architecture students. It presents key concepts in relation to the embodied energy of construction material properties and environmental performance of buildings in an accessible way. In explaining the principles and technologies by which we heat cool moderate and mitigate it demystifies environmental design as a technical exercise and enables students to create sustainable buildings with impact. Keep this sourcebook with you. Features: Amphibious House (Baca Architects) Ashen Cabin (HANNAH) Bunhill 2 Energy Centre (Ramboll Cullinan Studio McGurk Architects and Colloide) Cork House (Matthew Barnett Howland Oliver Wilton and Dido Milne) Dymaxion House (Richard Buckminster Fuller) Eastgate Centre (Mick Pearce) Neuron Pod (Will Alsop – aLL Design and AKT II) Quik House (Adam Kalkin) and Tension Pavilion (StructureMode and Weber Industries). Covers: Acoustics bamboo construction biopolymer bioremediation CLT climatic envelope computational fluid dynamics earthen architecture fabric formwork hempcrete insulation mycelium biofabrication paper construction passive solar heating pneumatic structures solar geometry tensegrity structures thermal mass and more. | Environmental Design Sourcebook Innovative Ideas for a Sustainable Built Environment

GBP 35.00
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21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

Many people dream of commissioning an architect to design their perfect home. It is a commitment that takes time and money but having a bespoke space built around your specific needs interests and desires can be life-changing. So what makes an award-winning 21st-century house? The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has been championing outstanding work for over 180 years and the internationally recognised RIBA awards celebrate the very best in British architecture. The winning houses featured here showcase truly innovative design contemporary materials and techniques and inspired responses to historical and urban settings as well as areas of natural beauty. By working closely with clients every step of the way the architects’ extraordinary buildings redefine what ‘home’ looks like. This compilation of some of the best RIBA award-winning houses from the last ten years offers an essential source of ideas and inspiration for the contemporary British home. From a sustainable townhouse to a modern cottage a hillside home to a lakeside escape these houses are show-stopping examples of architects surpassing their clients’ loftiest dreams. Featuring: The best RIBA award-winning houses from the last decade Houses from each region of the UK A rich variety of projects – from new builds to conversions to extensions Case studies from esteemed practices including: Alison Brooks Architects Chris Dyson Architects Foster Lomas Henning Stummel Architects Mole Architects and Tonkin Liu Guidance for working with architects. | 21st Century Houses RIBA Award-Winning Homes

GBP 45.00
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