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Construction and Design Manuals 22 items

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SPON'S 2021 12 items

New from RIBA

RETHINK Design Guide: Architecture for a post-pandemic world

£27.50

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Featured Collections

JCT Contracts Bestsellers

JCT:Minor Works Building Contract 2016 (MW)

Joint Contract Tribunal

£42.00

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JCT: Minor Works Building Contract with contractor's design 2016

Joint Contract Tribunal

£42.00

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JCT: Minor Works Sub-Contract with sub-contractor's design 2016

Joint Contract Tribunal

£30.00

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JCT: Standard Building Contract With Approximate Quantities (SBC/AQ)

Joint Contract Tribunal

£86.40

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JCT:Standard Building Contract With Quantities (SBC/Q)

Joint Contract Tribunal

£86.40

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JCT:Standard Building Contract Without Quantities 2016

Joint Contract Tribunal

£86.40

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JCT: Design and Build Contract 2016 (DB)

Joint Contract Tribunal

£86.40

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JCT: Intermediate Building Contract 2016 (IC)

£76.80

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JCT: Intermediate Building Contract with Contractor's Design 2016 (ICD)

Joint Contract Tribunal

£76.80

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Books from RIBA

101 Rules of Thumb for Low Energy Architecture

Heywood, Huw

Sets out the essential elements of low energy architecture in a fresh, intuitive way. With reliable, simple rules that will provide new ideas and refresh the designer's palette, each page focuses on a single piece of advice along with an illustration. There are also plenty of tips and more detailed information for those who wish to dig deeper.

£19.95

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101 Rules of Thumb for Sustainable Buildings and Cities

Heywood, Huw

£19.95

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20/20 Visions: Collaborative Planning and Placemaking

Campion, Charles

20/20 Visions is an inspiring and visually stimulating introduction to the practice of participatory planning, featuring a set of 20 international case studies that illustrate the effectiveness of engaging communities and stakeholders in the participative design process

£32.00

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A Gendered Profession: The Question of Representation in Space Making

Harriss, Harriet

£30.00 £37.00

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Age-friendly Housing

Park, Julia &

£40.00

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Architect's Guide to NEC4

Forward, Frances

An essential companion guide to the NEC4 contract suite

£15.00 £25.00

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Architectural Acoustics: A guide to integrated thinking

Patel, Raj

£45.00

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Are you an inclusive designer?

Fleck, Julie

£42.50

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Automatic for the City: Designing for People In the Age of The Driverless Car

Bobisse, Riccardo

£45.00

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Avoiding and Resolving Disputes: A Short Guide for Architects

Kavanagh, Bart

£21.00 £24.00

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Biomimicry in Architecture

Pawlyn , Michael

Biomimicry in Architecture is a comprehensive guide to how the natural world can be a source of inspiration for architects and designers alike. Topics covered include structures, materials, waste, water, thermal control, light and energy.

£32.00

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Building in Arcadia: The case for well-designed rural development

Reed, Ruth

£35.00

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Building Revolutions: Applying the Circular Economy to the Built Environment

Cheshire, David

£37.00

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CDM 2015: A Practical Guide for Architects and Designers

Bussey, Paul

£27.00

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Clerk of Works and Site Inspector Handbook: 2018 edition

ICWCI

£50.00

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Climax City: Masterplanning and the Complexity of Urban Growth

Rudlin, David

Climax City untangles the complexity of urban growth and masterplanning and embraces the chaos of the city

£40.00

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Colour and Create Architecture: Georgie finds a new home

Bermejo Olaizola, Nerea

£9.99

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A Commercial Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect

Ostime, N

£10.00

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Complex City: London's Changing Character

Manning, Jane

This is a visual, geographic and narrative journey that explains why London is the way it is today.

£35.00

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Contexts: The Work of Hodder + Partners

Hodder, Stephen

£22.00 £25.00

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Defining Contemporary Professionalism: For Architects in Practice and Education

Jones, Alan

£35.00

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Design for Climate Change

Gething, William with Puckett, Katie

£32.00 £39.50

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Designed to Perform: An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes

Dollard, Tom

£27.00

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Desire Lines: A Guide to Community Participation in Designing Places

Malone, Lesley

This is a practical guide to running public consultations, co-design and community engagement to help practitioners make the most of local knowledge and insight for the benefit of design.

£20.00 £25.00

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A Domestic Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect

Ostime, N

£10.00

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Energy Modelling in Architecture: A practice guide

Oliveira, Sonja;

£40.00

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EnerPHit: A Step by Step Guide to Low Energy Retrofit

Traynor, James

£45.00

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Environmental Design Pocketbook

Pelsmakers, Sofie

£27.00

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Eric Lyons and Span

Lyons: Simma, Barbara

£32.00

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Financial Management

Ayres B Pinder-

£17.95

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From Idea to Site: A project guide to creating better landscapes

Thirlwall, Claire

£40.00

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Future Campus

Taylor, Ian, ed.

£42.00

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Future Healthcare Design

Singha, Sumita

£45.00

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Future Office: Next-generation workplace design

Gillen, Nicola

£35.00

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Guide to JCT Design and Build Building Contract

Lupton, Sarah

£47.50

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Guide to JCT Intermediate Building Contract 2016

Lupton, Sarah

£47.50

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Guide to RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2018

Lupton S

Guide to the RIBA Domestic and Concise Building Contracts 2018 is a user-friendly guide that explains how to use, understand and make the most of the latest RIBA building contracts.

£30.00

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Guide to JCT Minor Works Building Contract 2016

Lupton, Sarah

£39.50

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Guide to JCT Standard Building Contract 2016

Lupton, Sarah

£47.50

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Happy by Design: A Guide to Architecture and Mental Wellbeing

Ben Channon

£20.00

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Healthy Homes: Designing with light and air for sustainability and wellbeing

Baker, Nick & Koen Steemers

£40.00

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Healthy Placemaking: Wellbeing Through Urban Design

London, Fred

£35.00

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Home Extension Design

Owen, Julian

£45.00

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Houses: Created by Peter Aldington

Aldington, Peter

£60.00

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Housing Fit For Purpose: Performance, Feedback and Learning

Stevenson, Fionn

Housing Fit for Purpose sets out a research-focused approach to looking at the challenges facing the built environment in approaching the design, construction and management of housing.

£30.00

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How to extend your Victorian terraced house

Green, Jaqueline

£45.00

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How to Thrive at Architecture School: A Student Guide

Spiller, Neil

£22.50

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HR for Creative Companies

Marks, Kate

£22.00

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Interior Design: A Professional Guide

Grove, Jenny

£30.00

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An Introduction to Architectural Conservation: Philosophy, Legislation and Practice

Evans, Nick Lee-

£30.00 £39.50

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An Introduction to Passive House: Building for the Future

Bere, Justin

£28.00 £35.00

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Law in Practice

Wevill, John

The definitive jargon-free, professional guide to construction law

£42.00

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The Lead Designer's Handbook: Managing design and the design team in the digital age

Sinclair, Dale

£35.00

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Lives in Architecture: Terry Farrell

Farrell, Terry

£32.00

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Loft Conversion Handbook

Construction Products Association

£24.00 £30.00

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Mediated Space: The architecture of news, advertising and entertainment

Brown, James

£30.00 £35.00

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Mobilising Housing Histories: Learning from London's Past for a Sustainable Future

Guillery, Peter & David Kroll

£40.00 £42.00

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The Modular Housing Handbook

Bayliss, Simon;Bergin, Rory

£40.00

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Nature Inside: A biophilic design guide

Browning, William D.

£40.00

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Nature of the City: Green Infrastructure from the Ground Up

Armour, Tom

£35.00

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New Design for Old Buildings

Hunt, Roger & Iain Boyd

£40.00

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New Life in Public Squares

Burns, Marie

£40.00

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New Towns: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth

Lock, Katy

£40.00

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Part 3 Handbook

Brookhouse, Stephen

£32.00

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PHPP Illustrated: A designer's companion to the Passivhaus Planning Package

Lewis, S

£42.00

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Planning, Politics and City Making: A Case Study of King's Cross

Bishop, Peter & Lesley Williams

£37.00 £42.00

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Principal Designer's Handbook: and Guide to the CDM Regulations 2015

APS - Association for Project Safety

£27.00

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Radical Housing: Designing multi-generational and co-living housing for all

Dove, Caroline

£40.00

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Redefining Brutalism

Henley, Simon

£32.00

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Rereadings 2: Interior Architecture and the Design Principles of Remodelling Existing Buildings

Brooker, Graeme & Stone, Sally

£40.00

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Rescue and reuse: Communities, heritage and architecture

Morrison, Ian

£40.00

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Rethinking Modernity: Between the local and the international

Katsakou, Antigoni

£35.00

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Retrofitting for Flood Resilience: A Guide to Building & Community Design

Barsley, Edward

£40.00

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Revisiting Postmodernism

Furman, Adam Nathaniel & Farrell, Terry

£35.00

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Revolution: Interior Design from 1950

Plunkett, Drew

£37.00 £42.00

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Handbook of Practice Management

Ostime, Nigel

The professional architect's business management bible.

£52.50

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RIBA Health and Safety Guide

RIBA

£25.00

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RIBA Job Book (10th Edition)

Ostime, Nigel

The RIBA Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects' long-established and recognised standard reference for running architectural projects and administering construction contracts. This new edition fully reflects the RIBA Plan of Work 2020

£75.00

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Small Practice and the Sole Practitioner

Davys, Marianne : Architects Ltd

£32.00

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Small Projects Handbook

Ostime, Nigel

£35.00

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Smart Buildings: Technology and the Design of the Built Environment

Bakker, Ron

£45.00

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Social Housing: Definitions and Design Exemplars

Karakusevic, Paul & Batchelor, Abigail

£42.00

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Starting a Practice: A Plan of Work

Foxell, Simon

£25.00 £32.00

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Targeting Zero: Embodied and Whole Life Carbon Explained

Sturgis, Simon

£37.00

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Taste: A cultural history of the home interior

Plunkett, Drew

£40.00

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The Re-Use Atlas: A Designer's Guide Towards a Circular Economy

Baker-Brown, Duncan

£37.00

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The Urban Block: A Guide for Urban Designers, Architects and Town Planners

Tarbatt, Jonathan

£40.00

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Think Like An Architect: How to develop critical, creative and collaborative problem-solving skills

Deutsch, Randy

Do you know how to think like an architect? Do you know why you should? How do you make sure that you have the critical thinking tools necessary to prosper in your academic and professional career? This book gives you the answers.

£32.00

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This is Temporary: how transient projects are redefining architecture

Hill, Cate St

£28.00 £32.00

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Transforming Towns: Designing for Smaller Communities

Jones, Matthew

£35.00

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Urban Lighting for People: Evidence-Based Lighting Design for the Built Environment

Davoudian, Navaz

An essential guide that illuminates the way for evidence-based urban lighting

£40.00

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Urban Schools: Designing for High Density

Taylor, Helen & Wright, Sharon

£40.00

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Value in the View: Conserving Historic Urban Views

Brigden, Tom

Value in the View: Conserving Historic Urban Views is a highly engaging guide that will aid practitioners in the implementation of policy and design of development within historic urban contexts, as well as contributing to scholarly debate on the protection of views in architecture and planning.

£25.00 £32.00

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Wellbeing in Interiors: Philosophy, design and value in practice

Grigoriou, Elina

This highly illustrated guide explores how the design of interior spaces can impact on wellbeing, enabling interior designers and project teams to understand how specific decisions about sustainable design and materials can be implemented on a day to day basis.

£35.00

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