The Access Audit Handbook is an important new multimedia planning tool for auditing the accessibility of buildings and services, and for writing reports in appropriate formats in the context of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, funding requirements and best practice in building management.

Architect's Legal Handbook is the most widely used reference on the law for architects in practice as well as the established leading textbook on law for architectural students. The ninth edition includes all the latest developments in the law that affect an architect’s work and comprehensive coverage of relevant UK law topics.

Most significantly, the chapter on the JCT contracts has been completely revised to cover the 2005 update. 

Construction Business Management describes in detail what the business side of the construction equation requires of the construction firm owner.

This is a practical guide for architects or other design professionals looking for a good job. Better job-hunting skills lead to better jobs. Here, a seasoned architect shows how anyone, from student intern to project manager, can go after and find the best opportunities in virtually every aspect of building-related work, whether getting started, changing an area of speciality or career or seeking an upgrade.

The Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 has changed the shape and complexity of the planning system in England and Wales significantly, in an effort to make it faster, fairer and more predictable.

This guide summarises the key changes, some of which remain to be clarified and brought into effect, and gives practical, straightforward and up-to-date advice on dealing with the transformed system.

Guide to SBC05 acts as a working aid to the operation and administration of the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract (SBC05) which replaces the former JCT98. It provides a straightforward and comprehensive analysis of the new form in light of today's legal and practice landscape.

The guide points out the important new changes to the contract itself by reflecting on up-to-date cases that serve as valuable lessons to the unwary. The contract's provisions, procedures and supplementary conditions are organised and defined by subject together with useful indexes and a clause comparison table, thus providing the hard-pressed practitioner with a comprehensive and concise reference guide for specific guidance during the course of the job.

This practical book on selling and marketing will help architects, engineers, project managers, facilities managers, surveyors, and contractors ‘sell’ themselves to prospective clients.

As clients become more sophisticated at both local and international level, and as competition in the construction industry increases, both contractors and consultants have to take a more professional approach to selling themselves. This is especially true for PFI bids where vast resources are committed to winning multi-million pound contracts.

Through a simple-to-follow process, illustrated with plenty of diagrams and checklists, Marketing & Selling Professional Services in Architecture & Construction sets out the seven key aspects of selling and marketing professional services.

The Joint Contracts Tribunal issued a new Design and Build Form in 2005, a successor to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor's Design. It looks substantially different from its predecessor and it is different in structure and often in its wording. This major new edition of David Chappell's well regarded book has been substantially revised to take account of the new contract terms and different structure. It also considers: the latest RIBA Terms of Engagement the standard novation agreements from the CIC and City of London Law Society; and, more than 70 additional cases.