RIBA Publishing

This practical handbook combines real-world advice on designing modular housing with a compelling argument for off-site construction as a means for architects taking a greater role and achieving more influence in their housing projects.

.Building regulations for access to and use of buildings in dwellings and buildings other than dwellings and provides a baseline for accessibility in the built environment.

The book will be invaluable for planners, councillors, highway engineers and anyone involved in planning, creating or changing places. This

Architects have the opportunity to take the lead in redefining how buildings are designed to achieve a low carbon future.

This book sets out how the Lead Designer can perform effectively and efficiently in the digital world, addressing clients' new whole life project requirements and new ways of constructing and assembling buildings.

Renowned architects Sara Caples and Everardo Jefferson explore how, when done well, building for social equity can directly enhance the formal, experimental and creative language of architecture.

Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis. However, this is not simply another theoretical text about energy performance in buildings. This book is for anyone who wants to better understand how energy is used in buildings, and how to drive down operational energy use – whether you’re an architect, student, client, building services engineer, contractor, building operator or other stakeholder.

Increasingly, many of us can work anywhere, so what is the meaning of the dedicated workspace? With 30 detailed case studies of all kinds of workspaces - from traditional workspaces to sheds and studios - this book argues that a specific place to work is still needed but that the kind of space is changing fast and good design is key.

Terry Farrell is one of Britain's most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global practice, this autobiography includes anecdotes and invaluable insights into Terry's life and work.

Uniquely Future Schools not only provides design guidance on themes in schools architecture and a wealth of recent innovative projects drawn from the UK but also an understanding of the socio-political and economic context that any practice must work within when taking on a schools project.

This book incorporates UK and international case studies and essays to identify the overlaps in the interests of energy and building conservation.

All the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips

This is the only practical guide to biophilic design principles for interior designers. Describing the key benefits, principles and processes of biophilic design, Nature Inside illustrates the implementation of biophilic design in interior design practice, across a range of international case studies.