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The RIBA Good Practice Guide Series New Titles Other titles in the RIBA Good Practice Guide Series

Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide:

Building Condition Mediation Inspecting Works
Surveys
Mike Hoxley Andy Grossman Nicholas Jamieson

Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide:

Extensions of Time
Gillian Birkby, Albert Poole
and Frances Anderson
RIBA Publishing | August 2008 |
Code 64213 | Paperback | 102 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 298 0 | £17.95
Starting a Practice
Simon Foxell
RIBA Publishing | November 2006 |
Code 59233 | Paperback | 170 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 249 2 | £17.95
Keeping out of Trouble
Owen Luder
RIBA Publishing | January 2006 |
Code 55692 | Paperback| 160 pages |
ISBN 978 185946 181 5 | £17.95

Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide: Employment

Painless Financial Management
Brian Pinder-Ayres
RIBA Publishing | February 2008 |
Code 63509 | Paperback | 120 pages|
ISBN 978 1 85946 180 8 | £17.95
Brian Gegg and David Sharp
RIBA Publishing | January 2006 |
Code 55694 | Paperback | 112 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 182 2| £17.95

Concentrating on the private homes
sector – the source of most surveying
work – and based on the author’s
years of practical experience, this
new book takes the reader through
the key steps of a professional
building condition survey. Looking
at many practical case studies, it
explains the equipment and skills
that are needed, highlights the
critical defects to look out for, and
provides an invaluable overview
of how and what to inspect. From
taking instructions and agreeing
terms of engagement to the crucial
business of report writing, this book
is a perfect primer for construction
professionals about the expanding
business of building condition surveys.
RIBA Publishing | July 2009 |
Code 68971 | Paperback | 160 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 308 6 | £17.95
Guiding the reader through the
practicalities of mediation, this book
covers the essential questions,
such as: how to decide whether to
mediate; what to expect during the
mediation itself; and how to optimise
the opportunities that it offers. Written
by an expert in the field and using
numerous examples of successful
mediations, this book explains how
to ensure an effective resolution
in which you can be confident.
Importantly, it shows too that
mediation is not only used in dealing
with claims and legal disputes,but
is also an invaluable component
in effective conflict management
and dispute prevention.
RIBA Publishing | May 2009 |
Code 68700 | Paperback | 104 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 312 3 | £17.95
This title thoroughly explores all the
issues associated with inspecting
works on site, in particular the
architect’s contractual obligations
Forthcoming titles in the Riba Good Practice Guide Series
to inspect under both the RIBA
appointment documents and the
building contract. It looks at the
practical issues connected with
inspection duties, including planning,
the role of the clerk of works, team
briefing, inspection checklists,
defects, health and safety, progress
monitoring, security, completion
and covers all the likely inspection
watch points associated with Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide: Good Practice Guide:
Marketing Your Practice Fee Management Negotiating the Planning Maze
different building elements. Edited by Helen Elias Roland Philips 2nd Edition
Philip Moren and John Collins
RIBA Publishing | December 2009 | RIBA Publishing | November 2009 |
Code 58154 | Paperback | 144 pages | Code 61859 | Paperback | 148 pages | RIBA Publishing | November 2009 |
ISBN 978 1 85946 307 9 | £17.95 ISBN 978 1 85946 180 8 | £17.95 Code 69963 | Paperback | 184 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 346 8 | £17.95
RIBA Publishing | February 2009 |
Code 63510 | Paperback | 172 pages |
ISBN 978 1 85946 193 8 | £17.95

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Practice Management
Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book 2010
Davis Langdon
Compiled by Davis Langdon, Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book provides the most accurate, detailed
and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index,
updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions.
This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for Major Works contracts exceeding
£3,500,000 in value.
Taylor & Francis | August 2009 | Code 68924 | Hardback | 1024 pages | ISBN 978 0 41555 256 1 | £145.00
Architect’s Job Book, Eighth Edition
3DReid
This new edition has been completely updated to reflect current practice and substantially reformatted to make it
easier to use for today’s practising architect. The book examines the architect’s key obligations and actions to
be undertaken at every work stage set out as a series of checklists. The guidance is amplified by useful notes
as well as references to supplementary guidance material at the end of every chapter.
RIBA Publishing | July 2008 | Code 61857 | Paperback | 304 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 252 2 | £60.00
Green Guide to the Architect’s Job Book, Second Edition
Sandy Halliday
Totally up-to-date and compatible with the Architect’s Job Book, the Green Guide to the Architect’s Job
Book nonetheless stands alone as a straightforward, practical aide-memoire based on hard-won experience
in the real world for architects and, importantly, project managers and clients, many of whom are actively
seeking sustainable buildings.
RIBA Publishing | August 2007 | Code 55696 | Paperback | 88 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 186 0 | £15.00
Plan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services
Roland Phillips
This is the guide to the RIBA Outline Plan of Work 2007, the de facto standard project framework used
by the construction industry. It reflects 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.
Plan of Work: Multi-Disciplinary Services builds on its well-established reputation for providing a flexible
model for preparing designs with a cost plan and an invaluable roadmap for monitoring their construction.
RIBA Publishing | July 2008 | Code 61856 | Paperback | 96 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 195 2 | £40.00
Architect’s Pocket Book, Third Edition
Charlotte Baden-Powell RIBA Bookshops
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Now in its third edition, the Architect’s Pocket Book is an essential reference that helps the Elsevier Pocket
thousands of students and professionals find the information they need, every day. Book range.  all students on construction-related HND or degree courses, but these clauses can contain convoluted language,
This best-selling pocket book has been fully revised, complete with new and updated Architect’s Pocket
diagrams, tables and symbol guides, so it will continue to provide readers with crucial Book now only
facts that would otherwise have to be looked up in less convenient and portable sources. £15.99 (rrp. £17.99).
Architectural Press | April 2008 | Code 64935 | Paperback | 384 pages | ISBN 978 0 75068 617 4 | £15.99
Metric Handbook Planning and Design Data, Third Edition
Edited by David Littlefield
The internationally bestselling Metric Handbook is a unique authoritative reference for solving everyday planning
problems. This edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice – in particular
the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional.
Architectural Press | January 2008 | Code 26429 | Paperback | 816 pages | ISBN 978 0 75065 281 0 | £34.99
Architectural Management: International Research & Practice
Edited by Stephen Emmitt, Matthijs Prins and Ad den Otter
Looking back at over a decade of research into architectural management, this book considers the present
challenges and opportunities, and also looks to the future. It provides a review of earlier work and developments
as well as setting the theme for new research areas. The book divides into six sections representing topical
themes, each section containing two research-based chapters and one practical case study. Case studies
will be from six European countries - Belgium, Denmark, Finland, The Netherlands, Norway, and the UK.
Architectural Management represents the state of the art of architectural management research and practice
and includes contributions from leading international figures in the field.
Wiley-Blackwell | April 2009 | Code 67422 | Hardback | 344 pages | ISBN 978 1 40517 786 3 | £69.50
A guide to letter contracts for very small projects, surveys and reports
Roland Phillips
A guide to letter contracts presents for the first time a safe way to word a letter contract for very small projects.
At its heart are two annotated model letters, one for a business client and the other for a domestic client.
Expressed in plain English, the models include provisions that may be modified to suit project requirements.
RIBA Publishing | June 2009 | Code 68969 | 40 pages | Paperback | ISBN 978 1 85946 314 7 | £15.00
Architects’ Fees 2009
Mirza & Nacey Research Ltd
The Fees Bureau’s Architects Fees survey report is now in its eleventh annual edition, presenting fee data for
over 40 market sectors. Only with this guide will you find out what the average ‘going rates’ are currently being
charged by other private architectural practices. These will help you when you set your own fees for a job.
Fee rates are analysed by building type (new build or refurbishment) and contract type (traditional or design &
build). In addition hourly charge-out rates are analysed for different types of staff, by region and by size of practice.
Mirza & Nacey | June 2009 | Code 67052 | Paperback | ISBN 978 1 90320 279 1 | £195.00
Shortcuts Book 1 Structure and Fabric
Shortcuts Book 2 Sustainability and Practice
Comprising hand-drawn sketches, technical drawings, and punchy articles. The Shortcuts books take you right
to the heart of a key topic in architecture and construction. They are quick and reliable guides to the welter of
diverse (and sometimes conflicting) technical guidance that tends to bombard and bamboozle us.
Book 1 | NBS | March 2009 | Code 67742 | 240 pages | Paperback | ISBN 978 18594 6321 5 | £25.00
Book 2 | NBS | March 2009 | Code 67743 | 208 pages | Paperback | ISBN 978 18594 6322 2 | £25.00
JCT 2005: CLAUSE BY CLAUSE
The Joint Contracts Tribunals’ suite of contracts (commonly known as JCT 2005) is the most commonly used
in the UK to procure major building work. Understanding the contracts, and which to use, is vital knowledge for
leading to confusion. This easy-to-follow guide takes the reader through the JCT 2005 building contracts
clause by clause, in a clear format, in simple but effective language that eliminates misinterpretation.
Butterworth Heinemann | November 2009 | Code 68994 | Paperback | 264 pages | ISBN 978 1 85617 518 0 | £24.99
Managing Construction Projects
Project management is one of the critical but difficult skills required by the construction industry. This book is
a unique, well written study of construction project management, focusing on information management and
its impact upon project management, giving the reader a thorough understanding of the construction project
process, the uncertainties within projects and the tools to manage those uncertainties and successfully
complete complex construction projects.
Wiley-Blackwell | November 2009 | Code 68900 | 512 pages | ISBN 978 1 40518 457 1 | £36.50
Legal and Regulatory
Which Contract? Fourth Edition
Sarah Lupton, Stanley Cox and Hugh Clamp
The indispensable Which Contract? is the most up-to-date and reliable comparative analysis of the burgeoning
number of standard forms of building contract currently available in the UK. An invaluable desktop companion
to be turned to at the start of every new project and is recommended to any professional whose clients expect
him or her to know the contemporary procurement landscape inside out.
RIBA Publishing | July 2007 | Code 58319 | Paperback | 360 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 237 9 | £45.00
Guide to DB05 Guides to MW05, SBC05 and IC05 are also available
Sarah Lupton
Guide to DB05 is a practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Design and Build Contract (DB05).
It covers the JCT05 2009 Revisions and points out the important new changes to the contract by reflecting on
up-to-date cases which serve as valuable lessons to the unwary. The contract’s provisions, procedures, and
supplementary conditions are organised and defined by subject and supported by useful indexes, while a clause
comparison table allows for a quick and easy way to understand how DB05 relates to the old contract, WCD98.
RIBA Publishing | July 2009 | Code 61861 | Paperback | 192 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 269 0 | £39.95
Smith, Currie & Hancock’s Common Sense Construction Law:
A Practical Guide for the Construction Professional
Thomas J. Kelleher JR
Knowledge of construction law and employment law is essential to running a successful construction business.
This Fourth Edition of this bestselling book provides a practical introduction to the significant legal topics and
questions affecting construction industry professionals. It translates the sometimes-confusing theories, principles,
and established rules that regulate the business into clear, lay-person’s English.
Wiley | July 2009 | Code 68737 | Hardback | 698 pages | ISBN 978 0 47023 136 4 | £75.00
Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time, Third Edition
Brian Eggleston
Retaining the overall approach of the previous editions, the author clarifies, in a highly readable but legally
rigorous way, the many misunderstandings on time and damages which abound in the construction industry.
This third edition takes account of a large volume of new case law since the previous edition was published
over ten years ago, includes a new chapter on delay analysis and features significantly expanded chapters on
penalty clauses, the effects of conditions precedent and time-bars, and the complexities of causation.
Wiley-Blackwell | December 2008 | Code 67084 | Hardback | 408 pages | ISBN 978 1 40511 815 6 | £69.50
Managing Health and Safety in Construction - Construction
(Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM)
Health and Safety Commission
This Approved Code of Practice provides practical guidance on complying with the duties set out in the
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 (CDM 2007).
The key aim of CDM 2007 is to integrate health and safety into the management of the project and to encourage
everyone involved to work together to improve the planning and management of projects; identify risks early
on; target effort where it can do the most good in terms of health and safety and discourage unnecessary
bureaucracy. These Regulations are intended to focus planning and management throughout construction
projects, from design concept onwards.
HSE Books | March 2007 | Code 60880 | Paperback | 122 pages | ISBN 978 0 71766 223 4 | £15.00
NBS Domestic Specification
NBS
This title is a concise, comprehensive and user-friendly tool for writing specifications for use on small
domestic projects. It accurately describes the products and materials to be used in a building or extending a
house. Using this guide will improve quality, save time, reduce uncertainty and help to avoid disputes.
NBS | November 2008 | Code 67168 | Paperback | 92 pages | ISBN 978 1 85946 318 5 | £28.75 (inc VAT)
Construction and Technical
Building Construction Handbook, Seventh Edition
Roy Chudley and Roger Greeno
Building Construction Handbook is an authoritative reference for all students and professionals. It is full of detailed
drawings that clearly illustrate the construction of building elements. The principles and processes of construction
are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive coverage of building construction
practice and techniques, representing both traditional procedures and modern developments, are also included
to provide the most comprehensive and easy to understand guide to building construction.
Butterworth-Heinemann | March 2008 | Code 65089 | Paperback | 763 pages | ISBN 978 0 75068 622 8 | £23.99
Building Information Modeling: A Strategic Implementation Guide for Architects,
Engineers, Constructors, and Real Estate Asset Managers
Dana K. Smith and Michael Tardif
With this strategic guide to building information modelling (BIM), you’ll learn how to implement this new technology
as part of a comprehensive systems approach to the design, construction, management, operation, maintenance,
and use of buildings. The authors, among the leading experts and pioneers in BIM, show you how BIM supports
more streamlined, integrated, and efficient business processes throughout the life cycle of buildings, from
their initial conception through their eventual retirement or reuse. The result is better quality buildings, lower
construction and operating costs, shorter project turnaround times, and a higher quality of building information
to support better business decisions.
Wiley-Blackwell | April 2009 | Code 68735 | Hardback | 216 pages | ISBN 978 0 47025 003 7 | £50.00
Photoshop in Architectural Graphics
Horst Sondermann
Photoshop is commonly used in all workflow phases, whether to generate and process planning layouts, to produce
material textures for virtual modelling or for the final assembly of photographed and rendered image components
This volume features solutions for typical everyday tasks and helps planners, architects and students achieve
satisfying results with the help of Photoshop software.
Springer Verlag | February 2009 | Code 62491 | Hardback | 238 pages | 978 3 21171 591 8 | £40.99
Pinpoint: Key Facts + Figures for Sustainable Building
Bruno Keller and Stephan Rutz
This manual presents the most important information on all the key aspects of sustainable building in a
concise and clearly organised form. It offers practical advice on how to put sustainable building methods into
practice using helpful graphics, illustrations and examples of work, together with step by step instructions.
Birkhäuser | October 2009 | Code 69001 | 288 pages | ISBN 978 3 03460 120 7 | £45.00
Architect’s Handbook of Construction Detailing, Second Edition
David Kent Ballast
Significantly updated with revisions to nearly all the key details, this Second Edition focuses on the key areas
where you are most likely to encounter problems, such as exterior cladding, roofing, doors, and masonry.
Featuring thoroughly redrawn illustrations and the latest industry standard references.
Wiley | August 2009 | Code 69171 | 512 pages | ISBN 978 0 47038 191 5 | £57.50
Handbook of Detailing The Graphic Anatomy of Construction
Ralph W. Liebing
Liebing is a professor in the field of planning rendering and detailing. His new book, The Handbook of Detailing is
about the function of the drafted details. Not the exemplary rendering of details but the best rendering for the
respective purpose whether at the construction site or the office. The author zeros in on frequent weaknesses in
detailing and shows positive examples. He consciously does without modifying copies of actual details and offers
examples and comments that can be adjusted to create the optimal effect for the circumstances of any project.
Springer | August 2009 | Hardback | Code 69559 | 424 pages | ISBN 978 3 21199 134 3 | £55.99
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