Plan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services is the new edition of the guide to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007, the de facto standard project framework used by the construction industry. Now updated to reflect current procurement practice and the consequences of better risk management, this guide describes how the different parties in the contemporary multi-disciplinary team can work together effectively to complete work stages.

The Architect's Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects' long-established and recognised standard reference work for running architectural jobs and administering construction contracts. Providing a systematic operational framework that can be applied to any building type or procurement method, its comprehensive scope is logically laid out along the RIBA's Outline Plan of Work 2007.

The new Eighth Edition has been completely updated to reflect current practice and substantially reformatted to make it easier to use for today's practising architect. Now supported by a companion website, the book examines the architect's key obligations and actions to be undertaken at every work stage set out as a series of checklists.

Presents a collection of studies of construction projects that helps architects learn and expand the possibilities of their own work. This book includes projects selected for their use of innovative techniques. These insights could help overcome problems, reduce a project's cost, speed up work on site or help with an idea that is hard to achieve.

This second book in the Basics Architecture series explores the origins, context and application of building materials such as stone, brick, concrete, timber, steel, glass and composite materials in architectual design,  Construction + Materiality also takes a look at the future of construction and materiality in architecture, paying particular attention to issues of sustainablitiy and innovation.

Supported by examples from both classic and contemporary architects who have championed the use of the materials under discussion, and whose work is very much characterised by the application of its priniples, Construction + Materiality provides an invaluable resource tool for students and architecutural professionals alike. It offers an accessible introduction for anyone interested in architectural design and material application.

This Design and Development Guide is an essential book for those who are involved in the initiation, planning, design and building of facilities for the various performing arts, from local to metropolitan locations. It includes the stages in the development, decisions to be taken, information requirements, feasibility and advice necessary in the design and development of a new or adapted building. Part one of this guide provides the background information about the organisation of the performing arts, the prevailing issues, the client and various building types. In the second part, the author deals with the components of design and development, identifying the roles of the client, advisors and consultants, the stages to be achieved, including client's proposal feasibility, the process of briefing, design and building and eventually hand-over and opening night, with a consideration of the building use.

Don't let the brown paper book cover deceive you. This is no regular school textbook. Building is a comprehensive and sophisticated survey of the history of engineering design and innovation in the Western world from ancient Egyptian times to the present. Unprecedented in subject and scope, the volume is organized chronologically and follows key developments and achievements in building techniques over the centuries, from Egypt to Greece and Rome through the Gothic era, the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution, and today's digital modeling. Building includes more than 800 photographs, archival drawings, and specially commissioned diagrams, many from rare and hard-to-find sources.

This Building Bulletin on design for fire safety in schools gives comprehensive guidance on the life safety requirements to comply with Part B of the Building Regulations on Fire Safety.

It also describes appropriate strategies to reduce the risk from fires and recommends property protection measures that go beyond the life safety requirements of the Building Regulations.

It includes the new policy of the Department for Children, Families and Schools on sprinklers in schools and the expectation that the majority of new schools will have sprinkler systems installed for property protection. Risk analysis and cost benefit tools for assessing whether to install a sprinkler system in a new build or refurbished school are provided on an enclosed CD-Rom.

Architectural detailing is what makes a design unique, and an architect outstanding. Detail in Contemporary Timber Architecture provides analysis of both the technical and the aesthetic importance of details in modern timber architecture. Featuring the work of renowned architects from around the world, this book presents 50 of the most recently completed and influential timber designs for both residential and commercial architecture.

Each project is presented with colour photographs, site plans and sections and elevations, as well as numerous construction details. There is also a descriptive text, detailed captions and in-depth information for each project, including the location, client, architectural project team, main consultants and contractors.

This is the third revised edition of this book and, like so much of Birkhauser’s output, is bilingual in German/English. ‘Facades’ is a promotional vehicle for Schuco International, a major cladding contractor with substantial operations worldwide and annual turnover (in 2008) in excess of 2 billion Euros.

The book is a miscellany, catalogued under building uses including: offices, commercial, hotels, cultural, retail, leisure, educational and high-end homes and most of the featured projects are afforded a two-page spread. Featured buildings include OMA’s Dutch Embassy (Berlin), Hadid’s Ordrupgaard Museum (Copenhagen), Morphosis’ Hypo-Alpe-Adria Center (Klagenfurt), BDP’s ‘egg’ auditorium for Napier University, Murray + Dunlop’s Sentinel Building and 3D Architecture’s ‘Glasgow Herald’ revamp.

Part of the new Technical Review series, this RIBA CPD-approved book has been specifically written to present information in a way that is most useful to practising construction professionals in their day-to-day work and is packed with photographs, plans and sections of cutting-edge façades.