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| Watts Pocket Handbook 2010 |
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Price: £26.95
Author(s): Watts Group Plc |
| The 'Watts Pocket Handbook' is the essential guide to property and construction, as used by professionals since 1983. It enjoys a unique position in the property market. Written by practising experts for professionals and students, it is filled to the (more) |
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| Spon`s First Stage Estimating Handbook: 2010 |
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Price: £45.00
Author(s): Spain, Bryan |
| Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook is the only comprehensive and reliable source of first stage estimating costs. Covering the whole spectrum of building costs and a wide range of related M&E work and landscaping work, vital cost data is presented (more) |
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| Good Practice Guide: Marketing Your Practice |
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Price: £19.95
Author(s): Elias, H |
| Drawing on the expertise of a range of industry insiders, this practical and accessible guide shows how effective marketing can give your practice the edge. With examples, tips, and guidelines that can easily be applied to a practice of any size, (more) |
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| Rough Guide to Sustainability - 3rd Edition |
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Price: £29.95
Author(s): Edwards, B |
| The comprehensively updated and restructured 3rd Edition of the 'Rough Guide to Sustainability' offers comprehensive essays on key topics and theoretical debates . Packed with illustrations, this is an essential reference book for design and built (more) |
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| Good Practice Guide: Mediation |
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Price: £19.95
Author(s): Grossman, A |
| A clear and practical guide to Mediation from the RIBA's Good Practice Guide series. This title includes chapter summaries on the key features in mediation. Meets the RIBA CPD requirements for the study of Practice Management. Guiding the reader through (more) |
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| Good Practice Guide: Fee Management |
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Price: £19.95
Author(s): Phillips, Rowland |
| 'Fee Management' is a straightforward professional guide for architects about calculating and negotiating fees to maximise profits. Clear and practical advice puts equal emphasis on good administrative procedures and on the softer skills of negotiation (more) |
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| Building Visionaries - The Unsung Heroes |
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Price: £20.00
Author(s): Collier, Caroline |
| The pages of history are full of the names of great architects and engineers, but little is said about the people who made their visions into reality – the resourceful and ingenious builders. This is the story of the men and women who took a plan and (more) |
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| Building Modern China |
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Price: £14.99
Author(s): CIOB |
| China's 'opening up' released a huge, pent up demand for buildings and infrastructure. New towns and cities appeared everywhere, and the biggest urbanization process the world has ever seen got underway. China's construction industry was ill equipped to (more) |
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| Good Practice Guide: Building Condition Surveys |
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Price: £19.95
Author(s): Hoxley, Mike |
| Introduces the core knowledge, best practice, and essential skills needed to undertake building condition surveys. This book takes the reader through the key steps of a professional building condition survey, concentrating on the private homes sector - (more) |
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| A Surveyor's Guide to the RICS HomeBuyer Service |
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Price: £39.50
Author(s): Parnham, P |
| This step by step companion gives expert advice and helpful tips for contracting with the client, conducting and recording the inspection , and producing a HBR report. Expanding on the official RICS guidance, this book gives clear explanations of the (more) |
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| Guide to DB05 |
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Price: £39.95
Author(s): Lupton, Sarah |
| This is a very practical guide to the operation and administration of the JCT Design and Build Contract (DB05). It covers the recent 2009 revisions (revision 2) to take account of the contract's new provisions, including those on sustainability and those (more) |
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| JCT (MTC) Measured Term Contract: Revision 2 2009 |
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Price: £33.64
Author(s): JCTribunal |
| Appropriate: for Employers who have a regular flow of maintenance and minor works, including improvements, to be carried out by a single contractor over a specified period of time and under a single contract; Where the work is to be instructed from time (more) |
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| Spon's Architects and Builders Price Book 2010 |
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Price: £145.00
Author(s): 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, (more) |
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| Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2010 |
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Price: £115.00
Author(s): Davis Langdon |
| Now in its 29th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2010 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. All the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts are covered, (more) |
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| Fire Prevention on Construction Sites: 7th Edition |
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Price: £20.00
Author(s): FPA |
| The Joint Code of Practice on the Protection from Fire of Construction Sites and Buildings Undergoing Renovation: - Compliance with the requirements of the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 and UK fire safety legislation. - Guidance (more) |
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| Project Management:Best Practices |
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Price: £57.50
Author(s): Kerzner, Harold |
| This is a revised follow up to the best selling Project Management Best Practices book and the earlier Advanced Project Management 2E text. As with the prior edition the book will contain contributions from global companies and will supply information on (more) |
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| Water Regulations In Brief |
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Price: £19.99
Author(s): Tricker, Ray |
| An essential reference for self certificating plumbers, building services engineers, civil engineers, and trainee plumbers following either C&G 6129 or NVQ level 3. A topic-based approach provides the reader with an exceptionally quick source of (more) |
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| Labour Conditions for Construction |
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Price: £99.99
Author(s): Lawrence, R; Werna, E |
| This authoritative guide promotes safe, healthy and non-exploitative working conditions for the construction industry. It combines theoretical analysis and case-studies from around the world, offering recommendations for best practice. The book results (more) |
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| Sustainable Architecture |
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Price: £27.50
Author(s): Turrent, David |
| There has been a perception in some quarters that green buildings are worthy but dull. This is a misconception - a good number of such buildings have won design awards and illustrate that a design approach focused on resource efficiency and minimum (more) |
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| CIOB Facilities Management Contract - Revised Jan 2008 |
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Price: £19.99
Author(s): CIOB |
| A purpose-built standard form facilities management contract designed to cover the provision of a wide spectrum of facilities management services from simple to highly complex arrangements. Appropiate for use in both the private sector and public (more) |
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| Electric Wiring: Domestic - Thirteenth Edition |
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Price: £11.99
Author(s): Scaddan, B |
| Brian Scaddan's guides to the IEE Wiring Regulations have established themselves as an industry standard. This book has, for many years, been the standard guide to the practical aspects of domestic electrical wiring. It is a vital reference not only (more) |
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| The Greener Homes Price Guide |
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Price: £17.99
Author(s): BCIS |
| With increasing concerns over global warming and rising fuel costs there is a growing emphasis on the need to undertake work to domestic property in order to save money and, at the same time, help the environment. The Greener Homes Price Guide contains (more) |
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| Defective Construction Work |
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Price: £65.00
Author(s): Barrett, K |
| Defective construction work, whether the result of inadequate design, faulty workmanship or poor materials - or some combination of these failings - is a frequent cause of legal disputes. Someone is usually to blame, either the builder or one or more of (more) |
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| Asbestos Essentials: A task manual |
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Price: £12.95
Author(s): HSE |
| A task manual for building, maintenance and allied trades on non-licensed asbestos work. This revised task manual contains guidance and task sheets on working safely with asbestos. It is aimed at all workers who may come into contact with asbestos, (more) |
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| Service Charges - Case in Point: 2nd Edition |
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Price: £28.50
Author(s): Forrester,P ; Gibb, C |
| The 2nd edition of this highly practical, case-based book brings welcome clarity to the complex area of service charges - a subject notorious for generating friction between landlord and tenant. Based on summaries of service charge cases with commentary (more) |
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| Building On Knowledge |
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Price: £49.50
Author(s): Bartholomew, D |
| This guide shows design practices and other construction professionals how to manage knowledge successfully. It explains how to develop and implement a knowledge management strategy, and how to avoid the pitfalls, focusing on the techniques of learning (more) |
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| Liquidated Damages and Extensions of Time |
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Price: £69.50
Author(s): Eggleston, Brian |
| 'Probably the most thorough work available on the subject' Construction Industry Law Letter. Liquidated damages and extensions of time are complex subjects, frequently forming the basis of contract claims made under the standard building and civil (more) |
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| Sustainable Home |
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Price: £29.10
Author(s): Krauel, J |
| Sustainability is the necessary trend in architecture, and projects like these are stepping forward to greet the challenge. These are the very latest, finest, pioneering examples of work done in sustainable architecture in America. Gorgeous full-colour (more) |
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| Landscape Architect's Pocket Book |
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Price: £19.99
Author(s): Vernon,S; Garmory, N; Tennant, R |
| An indispensable tool for all landscape architects, this time - saving guide answers the most frequently asked questions in one pocket-sized volume. It is a concise, easy to read reference that gives instant access to a wide range of information needed (more) |
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| BCIS Building Maintenance Price Book 2009 |
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Price: £125.00
Author(s): BCIS Wessex |
| This latest edition of the 'Building Maintenance Price Book' has been fully updated for 2009 to include the latest changes to labour and material costs. As an independent source of information, it is ideal for use in measured term contracts. The (more) |
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| The Rising Damp Myth |
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Price: £16.99
Author(s): Howell, Jeff |
| This book written by Jeff Howell, FCIOB, is indispensable reading for house sellers, buyers, surveyors, property professionals and construction students. It describes how 'rising damp' has been promoted as a marketing device by the chemical damp proofing (more) |
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| Building Services Handbook - 5th Edition |
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Price: £21.99
Author(s): Hall, F; Greeno, R |
| This edition contains extended information on water system components, control systems for hot water and heating, ventilation and air conditioning, drainage, gas appliance flues and further examples of design calculations. It has been revised and (more) |
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