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  1. Altering Houses and Small Scale Residential Developments

    By Ann Bridger, Colin Bridger

    'Altering Houses and Small-scale Residential Development' is a practical guide for home owners and those undertaking residential building projects. It is also useful for students and emerging professionals concerned with the built environment, especially small-scale development procedures....

    Published July 27th 1998 by Routledge

  2. Construction - Craft to Industry

    By Gyula Sebestyen

    This book provides a unique and comprehensive survey of changes and trends in the construction industry focusing on the post-war years and emphasizing their contemporary and future relevance....

    Published March 4th 1998 by Taylor & Francis

  3. Getting There by Design

    By Kenneth Allinson

    There was military project management. There was construction project management. Then there was business project management, a tool described as 'the wave of the future'. Where are architects in all this, professionals whose work has always been project-driven? There is design management in...

    Published January 11th 1998 by Routledge

  4. Computing in Architectural Practice

    By Jaki Howes, Christopher Woodward

    This book provides a concise introduction for small and medium sized architectural practices considering introducing computers or using them more widely....

    Published December 3rd 1997 by Taylor & Francis

  5. Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm

    By Selwyn Goldsmith

    Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm.Goldsmith's new paradigm is based on the concept of...

    Published November 12th 1997 by Routledge

  6. Briefing Your Architect

    2nd Edition

    By Frank Salisbury

    This book sets out the essential activities and inter-relationships involving the client organization and multi-disciplinary design team as they progress through each phase of the job. It guides the client through the preliminary steps needed to start up work; seeking out and appraising a site,...

    Published November 12th 1997 by Routledge

  7. Marketing for Architects and Engineers

    A new approach

    By Brian Richardson

    Professional services marketing is a relatively new form of marketing that has been recogonized only since the late 1980s. Most of the attempts to write about marketing for professional services have been a regurgitation of the traditional marketing approach that has evolved since the 1960s and...

    Published November 6th 1996 by Taylor & Francis

  8. Care Homes for Older People

    A briefing and design guide

    By Judith Torrington

    The provision of care for older people has changed radically over the past ten years and building facilities need to reflect this change. Written by an architect and specialist in the design of residential and nursing homes, this book describes the needs of the users, provides detailed design...

    Published August 21st 1996 by Taylor & Francis

  9. Barrier-Free Design

    By James Holmes-Seidle

    This book for architects, interior designers, building managers, students, conference organisers looks at first principles to provide the user with the 'tools' to make their own decisions rather than a 'cookbook' approach. It is intended that designs and product information can be taken straight...

    Published January 18th 1996 by Routledge

  10. Design and the Economics of Building

    By D. Jaggar, R R Morton

    A textbook on design economics for students of architecture, building and quantity surveying, it examines the links between design and the costs of building as well as more general economic issues and their significance for designers and builders....

    Published July 26th 1995 by Taylor & Francis