Designing better buildings quality and value in the built environment
Design is widely recognized as the key to improving the quality of the built environment. This well-illustrated book comprises 15 chapters written by leading practitioners, clients, academics and other experts, and presents the latest thinking on what design quality is and how to achieve it.
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New York
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2003
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Table of Contents:
- Challenges for designers / Robin Nicholson
- Design as a value generator / Sebastian Macmillan
- Clients and quality / Tony Pollington
- Learning more from what we build / Bill Bordass
- Clients' perspective on the value of good design / Dickon Robinson
- The long-term costs of owning and using buildings / Raymond Evans ... [et al.]
- Measuring value or only cost : the need for new valuation methods / John Rouse
- Measuring and improving functionality and performance / Terry Wyatt
- Design quality in new schools / Richard Feilden
- Assessing benefits in the health sector / Bryan Lawson
- Making special places for health care / Susan Francis
- Adding value through better urban design / Matthew Carmona
- Design quality needs conscious values / Giles Oliver
- Flexibility and adaptability / Adrian Leaman, Bill Bordass
- Managing design and construction / Peter Trebilcock
- Inclusive maps / Sunand Prasad
- Achieving quality in building design by intention / Michael Dickson
- Building indicators of design quality / Jennifer Whyte, David Gann, Ammon Salter
- Housing quality indicators in practice / Paul Wheeler.
Designing better buildings