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Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013

The RIBA Plan of Work 2013 is the definitive framework for the contemporary building design and construction process. It provides a stage-by-stage model to assist all members of the project team to manage the process from inception to completion and beyond. This practical guide explains how the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 can be applied for optimal results in construction projects, revealing the Plan of Work as much more than just a project framework. It can be used as a tool to ensure best outcomes and guide thinking across a range of key themes including whole life costs, procurement routes, BIM, and social and environmental sustainability.

With useful explanations of the various stages and technical terms, this book is packed with guidance and tips for using the Plan of Work to ensure genuinely integrated projects. Intended as complementary to the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Online, the RIBA Job Book, and Assembling the Project Team, it is aimed at construction professionals industry-wide, from architectural practices to clients and contractors, as well as students studying for their professional examinations.

RIBA Plan of Work Online

Visit the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Online tool to download a copy of the RIBA Plan of Work or to customise a Plan of Work for your practice or project.

RIBA Job Book (9th edition)

The RIBA Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ long-established and recognised standard reference for running construction projects. This major new update fully reflects the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 and contemporary working practice. It embraces themes of collaboration within the project team, better briefing, advances in information technology and BIM, and the continued importance of sustainability including valuable detail on a range of ‘cradle to grave’ processes in a building project.

Applicable to all forms of procurement and to all sizes and types of project, the RIBA Job Book provides a systematic operational framework that is comprehensive in scope and easy-to-follow, and which examines step-by-step the key obligations of the architect or lead consultant. Setting out all the actions to be undertaken throughout a project, it includes invaluable checklists, notes and practical guidance. Its straightforward, no-nonsense coverage will form the cornerstone of any construction project, or office quality management system, making it essential reading for anyone in architectural practice or, indeed, for students undertaking their Part 3 examinations.

A Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect (2013 edition)

If you need to know about engaging the services of an architect, this RIBA guide is for you. Straightforward and completely up to date, it sets out everything that you as a client – whether for domestic, commercial, small or large projects – needs to be aware of.

As well as explaining the considerable added value that the right architect can bring to the success of your project, the guide talks you through the formal appointment mechanisms that architects as professionals will expect to transact with you.

General background information outlining the importance of the brief and project management is supported by an explanation of the industry-standard ‘RIBA Plan of Work 2013’. Importantly, the various options for calculating fees are described. Finally, the guide briefly introduces you to other major legislation affecting your project.

Aimed at all construction clients – especially those who have never carried out this role before – the guide offers a quick and easy overview of the value, mechanisms and context of appointing an architect. It is an ideal publication for architects to give to their clients, or indeed for clients to read before employing an architect for their project.

Project Management 10th Edition

Dennis Lock's masterly exposition of the principles and practice of project management has been pre-eminent in its field for 45 years and was among the first books to treat project management as a holistic subject. But Project Management has been kept completely up to date by regular and sensitive revisions to ensure that it remains fresh and totally relevant. Poject Management explains the entire project management process in great detail, demonstrating techniques from simple charts to detailed computer applications. Everything is reinforced with clear diagrams and case examples, many new for this edition. The author has expanded discussion of topics such as supply chain management and the project management office (PMO), and there are new chapters about implementing change management projects and the role of senior managers in supporting projects.

Product Development and Architecture

In the construction sector, demand is steadily increasing for innovative products. Product Development and Architecture presents selected examples that illustrate how the planning disciplines can contribute to such innovations in building. Introductory essays comprehensively explain the thematic and methodological framework. Case studies exemplify the transformation of ideas into prototypes or products. Creating dynamics, shifting boundaries, building and expanding networks, conserving resources, developing and optimizing planning tools, as well as implementing use-additive processes — all these processes are discussed in order to clarify the necessary collaboration between various actors in the construction industry. Groundbreaking solutions clearly explain the role applied sciences play in the active collaboration between university and industry, as well as the interdisciplinary integration of disciplines and experts. This publication presents interdisciplinary collaborative projects such as the “Seaweed Facade,” which resulted in the realization of a building with a bioreactor facade at the Inter- national Building Exhibition in Hamburg in 2012, or the "Printed Envelope,” the result of a collaborative research project in which free forms for the facade design were generated from 3D computer-generated processes.

Guide to Using the RIBA Plan of Work 2013

RIBA Plan of Work Online

Visit the RIBA Plan of Work 2013 Online tool to download a copy of the RIBA Plan of Work or to customise a Plan of Work for your practice or project.

RIBA Job Book (9th edition)

A Client's Guide to Engaging an Architect (2013 edition)

Eco-minimalism (2nd edition)

Building energy-efficient, ecologically benign and sustainable buildings is complex since it comprises of a set of interdependent factors influenced by little-understood science. Buildings are all too often ‘greenwashed’ with eco-bling, which is at best unnecessary and at worst counterproductive and ecologically damaging.

This book exposes the pitfalls of such greenwashing in an immediate, visually-arresting and authoritative manner. Its central message is that eco-bling should be ditched in favour of ‘eco-minimalism’ – the holistic, considered and appropriate deployment of building science in support of truly ecological, affordable sustainable architecture.

Written by the highly respected architect Howard Liddell OBE, the book is based on original experience and research from over 30 years at the vanguard of ‘green’ architecture. A critique of the technical fix approach is counterbalanced with the good-housekeeping eco-minimal alternative aimed at aspirant green architects, other construction professionals, developers, and owners for projects at all scales.