Architect's Pocket Book 4E (Routledge Pocket Books)
by Jonathan Hetreed, Ann Ross, and Charlotte Baden-Powell
This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis - on site or in the studio. It provides guidance on a range of tasks, from complying with the Building Regulations, including the recent revisions to Part L, to helping with planning, use of materials and detailing. Compact and easy to use, the Architect's Pocket Book has sold well over 65,000 copies to the nation's architects, architecture students, designers and construction professiona...
For courses in Construction Management, Construction Contract Administration, and Construction Inspection.Drawing on the author's extensive experience in construction engineering, administration, and education, this text/reference addresses each of the principal contract administration duties in logical order-from the hands-on viewpoint of a resident engineer on a construction project. It specifically addresses the responsibility and authority of the Resident Project Representative, unlike other...
Breaking the Development Log Jam: New Strategies for Building Community Support
by Douglas R Porter
Habitus: A Sense of Place (Routledge Revivals) (Urban and Regional Planning and Development)
by Emma Rooksby
This title was first published in 2002: Habitus is a concept developed by the late French philosopher, Pierre Bourdieu, as a 'sense of one's place...a sense of the other's place'. It relates to our perceptions of space and place and how these perceptions affect our actions, not only in shaping the form of environments, but also simply in our experience and interaction with places. Habitus implies that a web of complex processes inseparably links the physical, the social and the mental. Inspired...
Communication in Construction
by Andrew Dainty, David Moore, Mike Murray, and Michael Murray
Communication within project-based environments presents special challenges. This is especially true within the construction industry, where interaction tends to be characterised by unfamiliar groups of people coming together for short periods before disbanding to work on other endeavours. This book examines communication at a number of levels ranging from interpersonal interactions between project participants to corporate communication between organizations. Several non-typical perspectives o...
Risk Management in Project Organisations (CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT)
by Peter Edwards and Paul Bowen
This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.While based on the experience of the construction industry, the book also acts as a broader project management text, meeting the needs of project managers and students in many disciplines and professions from architecture and construction through engineering and commerce to IT, fi...
Developing Around Transit
by Robert Dunphy, Robert Cervero, Fred Dock, Maureen McAvey, and Douglas R Porter