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The CSI Construction Contract Administration Practice Guide

von John Wiley & Sons

Get the must-have reference on construction contract administration -- and the essential study aid for the Certified Construction Contract Administrator (CCCA) Exam.

The CSI Construction Contract Administration...

The Architect's Guide to Small Firm Management: Making Chaos Work for Your Small Firm

von Rena M. Klein

The definitive guide to management success for sole practitioners and leaders of small design firms

Owning and operating a small architectural design firm can be challenging, with tight project deadlines, on-the-fly...

The Csi Construction Specifications Practice Guide

von John Wiley & Sons

The must-have specifications writing reference—and essential study aid for the Certified Construction Specifier (CCS) Exam

The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive references specifically and carefully...

Positioning for Architecture and Design Firms

von Jack Reigle

An essential guide for a firm of any size to effectively position itself in the marketplace

For an architecture or design firm to survive and prosper in the new economy, it needs to redefine and reinvigorate...

Professional Real Estate Development: The ULI Guide to the Business

von Richard B. Peiser & David Hamilton

This basic primer covers the nuts and bolts of developing all types of real estate, including multifamily, office, retail, and industrial projects. Thoroughly updated, this new edition includes numerous case...

Translucent Building Skins: Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

von Scott Murray

Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics,...

The CSI Construction Product Representation Practice Guide

von Construction Specifications Institute

The must-have reference on construction product representation—and the essential study aid for the Certified Construction Product Representative (CCPR) Exam

The CSI Practice Guides are a library of comprehensive...

The Digital Document

von Bruce Duyshart

Documents, such as drawings, memos and specifications, form an essential function in the design and construction industry. Throughout the lifecycle of a built asset, starting from an initial design idea, right...

Prospects for an Ethics of Architecture

von William M. Taylor & Michael P. Levine

Bringing together the reflections of an architectural theorist and a philosopher, this book encourages philosophers and architects, scholars and designers alike, to reconsider what they do as well as what...

Briefing Your Architect

von 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...

Architectural Design Procedures

von Arthur Thompson

This book explains how architects obtain and administer work from the moment the contract is signed, to the handing over of the finished building to the client and is an indispensible guide to all architecture...

Innovation in Architecture: A Path to the Future

von Alan J. Brookes & Dominique Poole

In this highly original book, through a series of essays, key architects and engineers in Europe, Australia, and the USA describe the ideas and development behind the innovative technology in their chosen projects,...

Negligence in Construction

von Ben Patten

What is professional negligence? What are the obligations of construction professionals in contract and in tort? In what circumstances might the difference between the obligations be important?

These questions...

Future Practice: Conversations from the Edge of Architecture

von Rory Hyde

Designers around the world are carving out opportunities for new kinds of engagement, new kinds of collaboration, new kinds of design outcomes, and new kinds of practice; overturning the inherited assumptions...

Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice

von Katie Lloyd Thomas

Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work, this book reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse....

Accessible Housing: Quality, Disability and Design

von Rob Imrie

Considering the interrelationships between disability and housing design with a focus on the role of policy in addressing the housing needs of disabled people, this book sets out some of the broader debates...

Reinventing the Workplace

von John Worthington

At the beginning of the 1990s over 60 per cent of the working population was in 'white collar' employment and approximately two thirds of this number were direct users of information technology to enhance their...

Towards a New Architect

von Yasmin Shariff & Jane Tankard

After three years of education, architecture students have to start out on their first year of practical training as the initial step in a career in the professional world--all too often without enough clear...

Legal and Contractual Procedures for Architects

von Robert Greenstreet, David Chappell & Michael Dunn

A practical guide which provides a route map through the legal and contractual maze of everyday architectural practice. Clear flow-charts, checklists, guides to action and sample documents enable the reader...

Architect's Legal Handbook

von Anthony Speaight

The Architect's Legal Handbook is the established leading textbook on law for architectural students and most widely used reference on the law for architects in practice.

This eighth edition includes all the...