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Managing the building design process [electronic resource]

By: Language: English Publication details: Oxford Butterworth Heinemann 2006Edition: 2nd edDescription: eBookISBN:
  • 9780080461427
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 658.404
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Partial contents:
SECTION 1 The Basics -- Design and the designers -- Communication -- Permissions and approvals -- SECTION 2 The Design Period -- Design planning -- The design brief -- The Design: Function, Part 1 How buildings are used -- The Design: Function, Part 2 Design and construction constraints -- The design: aesthetics -- Construction information -- Pre-contract administration -- SECTION 3 Construction Period -- Construction supervision -- Completion -- Feedback
Summary: This text explains the designer's role in the creation of new buildings from development of the plan through to completion. The focus is on ensuring that the adopted design best meets the needs of the client, and putting that design into practice in the most effective manner. This text uses one key design project throughout, so that the reader can follow the process leading to the creation of a new building, with pertinent issues highlighted as they would arise in practice.
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Book Virtual Online EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 133803-2001

SECTION 1 The Basics -- Design and the designers -- Communication -- Permissions and approvals -- SECTION 2 The Design Period -- Design planning -- The design brief -- The Design: Function, Part 1 How buildings are used -- The Design: Function, Part 2 Design and construction constraints -- The design: aesthetics -- Construction information -- Pre-contract administration -- SECTION 3 Construction Period -- Construction supervision -- Completion -- Feedback

This text explains the designer's role in the creation of new buildings from development of the plan through to completion. The focus is on ensuring that the adopted design best meets the needs of the client, and putting that design into practice in the most effective manner. This text uses one key design project throughout, so that the reader can follow the process leading to the creation of a new building, with pertinent issues highlighted as they would arise in practice.

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