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A practical guide which provides a route map through the legal and contractual maze of everyday architectural practice. Clear flow-charts, checklists, guides to action and sample documents enable the reader to find essential information at a glance.

Highly selective bibliographies list precise references for more detailed study.

This fifth edition has been comprehensively revised to deal with the recent changes in legislation and protocol and includes a new section on adjudication.

* Gives you all the basic knowledge needed to cope with legal and professional issues
* Includes clear flow-charts, checklists, guides to action and sample documents that enable the reader to find essential information at a glance
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A handy desktop reference that provides answers to all the questions that can arise in everyday practice. Offers step-by-step solutions to problems such as soliciting new clients, hiring and firing employees, and upgrading office equipment. Filled with easy-to-use checklists, tips, and shortcuts also on disk for easy customization. ... Read more

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Invaluble resourse for the entreprenuer architect or manager
This book is written in a very easy to use format, similar in some respects to the 'idiots guides' and can be used as an on the spot reference for issues as they occur if the world of the practice of providing professional services to make a living, or it can be easily read cover to cover as to avoid pitfalls others have already overcome. The content covers several topics from resolving employee and client relationship struggles to master planning and marketing your firm to mundane business decisions over accounting issues, filing, time management etc. and working favorably with bankers for obtaining business loans. There is even a section of standardized forms which one can use in the office. Once your professional competance it at a level where you are attracting work you will be confronted with so many issues which we are not taught how to handle in college that this reference becomes a valuble tool to help keep the majority of your focus on your projects and design. ... Read more

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This book explains how architects obtain and administer work from the moment the contract is signed, to the handing over of the finished building to the client and is an indispensible guide to all architecture students.

This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It now includes significant additions to the section on design constraints, a new section on quality assurance and management and information on new acts and regulations introduced since the publication of the first edition. Other sections on subjects such as the Building Regulations, use of computers and standard forms and letters have been brought up to date.

*Assumes no prior knowledge of the subject.
*Provides a useful introduction to architectural practice for the student.
*Contains examples of completed standard forms and typical letters. ... Read more

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The Architect's Legal Handbook is the established leading textbook on law for architectural students and most widely used reference on the law for architects in practice.

This eighth edition includes all the latest developments in the law that effect an architect's work. A key addition is a greatly expanded section on adjudication - a topic that has become hugely important in the last few years. The book also builds on the comprehensive coverage of all UK law, with editors for Scotland and Northern Ireland expanding their sections.

*The most important legal book for student and professional architects.
*Newly expanded chapter on Adjudication, reflecting recent developments.
*Comprehensive update of all topics provide the reader with an essential reference. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on February 10, 2003. The length of the article is 821 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Norwalk company creates world-class acoustics. (Competitive Edge).(profile of Jaffe Holden Acoustics )(Company Profile)
Author: Vincent Donato
Publication: Fairfield County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 10, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 6Page: 1(2)

Article Type: Company Profile

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Live the life of an architect as he learns his art and helps his clients to realize their building dreams.Through the use of over 70 true stories, this book takes you on a journey through the emotional highs and lows that the author experienced in his day-to-day working with people, responding to their needs.Clients, partners, builders, consultants, union officials, lawyers, corporate and government employees, building officials, students, and even Frank Lloyd Wright, all play their part in these creative endeavors.Enjoy the wide variety of funny, sad, sometimes intimate, and often surprising stories, as the author designs projects ranging from small home additions to corporate headquarters and major government buildings.Travel with him as he meets with foreign building officials and encounters different cultures and approaches to architecture.Share all these experiences as these true tales bring you insights into the world of people and architecture. ... Read more

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More Chicken Soup
Dreams and Schemes: Stories of People in Architecture is a wonderful book that delivers a pleasant reminder that our personalities and perceptions meld with and significantly influence our professional lives.David Dibner shares his life and profession to convey his message that good architecture is responsive to the needs, and sometimes dreams, of those using it.

Unlike the vast quantity of books on architecture, there are no chapters dedicated to the scholars of architecture nor to classic architectural debates such as "form follows function" or visa-versa.Instead he uses interesting stories to provide a chronology of his life's experience as an architect to show that uniting people and the built environment is not only an art, but also a priority.

In his lessons-learned style, he offers a personal account of dealing with different situations and how his decisions ultimately influenced him personally and professionally.Who knows how his life would have turned out if he was able to take the college classes he desired and hadn't happened onto architecture; perhaps he would have become an engineer.

For those that would be interested in a "Chicken Soup for the Architect's Soul," this book is for you.

Chicken Soup for Architect's Soul
The following review was written by Stephanie Stubbs, Managing Editor, of AIArchitect, Nov. 5, 2001 issue

Dreams and Schemes is a really nice book. And these days, many
people seem to be searching for small bits of "nice" to help stitch theirlives back to a normal pattern. Its subtitle, "Stories of People and Architecture," sums up its purpose: it is a vehicle by which architect David Dibner can share his lifelong fascination with the people behind the buildings. The author has deliberately chosen to concentrate on this "softer" part of the profession; he states that he believes there exist plenty of other books that deal with architectural aesthetics and poesy. "There is a scarcity of currently available literature that emphasizes the importance of people in the balance between aesthetic and responsiveness to users' needs," he explains.

Dibner has earned a wealth of experience from which to draw
his stories. His career as an architect spans more than half a
century, and runs the gamut from private practitioner to
large-firm principal to government architect. Through this book, he has created a semi-memoir that allows him to share with us-in his easy-to-like, storytelling fashion-lessons learned and
best practices for dealing with clients, bosses, and coworkers.

Dreams and Schemes offers a palatable means by which to
study people in an architectural context, and perhaps hone the "people skills" that give a cutting edge to the most basic,traditional form of practice.

Dreams and Schemes actually comprises a collection of short stories that follow the course of the architect's career. Some are amusing (a husband and wife having a pitch-a-fit war overplans for their new
house), some are sad (projects can't always come to fruition) some even are scary (there are building officials on the take -what's a young architect to do?) Some stories even have etiquette lessons: Is it proper
(not to mention prudent) to match your new boss martini-for-martiniwhen he takes you out celebrating? Throughout is Dibner's upbeat philosophy: ". . . what I love about architects [is] that they want people who are going to demand more of them and challenge them to do more or better."

Dreams and Schemes will delight a number of audiences: the client baffled by blueprints and the first-year student subduedby structures will gain heart in realizing that all architecture comes down to people. Practitioners can reaffirm what Dibner illustrates so well: developing a successful strategy for any built project begins by creating a relationship with the client.

And how can you not smile when the author sums up his 50-year
immersion in architecture with "For me it's been a wonderful ride." In the highest possible sense, Dibner has created a "Chicken Soup for the Architect's Soul." It's a really nicebook. Read it. ... Read more

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This is the classic practical introduction to the broad principles of building management. It is suitable for both students and practising construction professionals who are concerned with greater efficiency within the construction industry.

As a general textbook for the student, the introduction covers the entire field in some depth providing a firm foundation for additional reading. The text is closely geared to the chartered Institute of Building (Member) Parts I and II examinations. The book includes examples based upon and related to working experience. It will also be found valuable by students reading for the examinations of other professional bodies in the construction industry, and by HNC/D students.

* Geared specifically for Chartered Institute of Building exam requirements
* Simple introduction supplies students with comprehensive basic information
* Clear layout makes this an easy-to-use reference book. ... Read more

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Comprehensive Guide for Building Student
This book comprises everything from A to Z. It provide students even professional builders a quick recall/review of construction environment associated terms, elements and functions. Although, most of the subjects are mentioned and provided necessary example and explaination, there are only can be treated as a guildline. If anyone who wanted for a more detailed explanation and case study, this may not be the one. Since the building industry is so complex and varies all the time, this books can provide a good management basic for all reletated discipline. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Builder, published by Hanley-Wood, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1361 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Cottage industry: a builder/architect team sets out to prove the notion that bigger isn't always better.(The Cottage Co.)
Author: Carolyn Weber
Publication: Builder (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Hanley-Wood, Inc.
Volume: 25Issue: 13Page: 116(5)

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Construction management is about controlling time, cost, quality, and safety, and acting in a socially, politically, and environmentally acceptable manner.Undergraduate non-construction majors and graduate Construction Management students need a general, yet comprehensive, text that covers the fundamentals of construction so that they may operate within the aforementioned parameters.

The first edition of Construction Management Fundamentals gives students a solid understanding of construction so that, as designers and constructors, they will be better prepared to make intelligent design decisions and to interact in a meaningful and productive manner. For those students who may take only one or two construction courses, the material is covered in a logical, simple, and concise format. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Westchester County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on November 10, 2003. The length of the article is 789 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Career track: from model-train landscapes to schools and castles, Hastings architect built his firm one project at a time.(Peter Gisolfi, Peter Gisolfi Associates)(Interview)
Author: David J. Glenn
Publication: Westchester County Business Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 10, 2003
Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: 42Issue: 45Page: 2(1)

Article Type: Interview

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This is the first in a new series of books for Colorado professionals who practice in regulated industries. Along with extensive statutory and regulatory materials reproduced in the appen-dices, this book includes a lengthy synopsis of legal issues affecting the practice of architec-ture. Written in plain English, the synopsis covers such issues as qualifications and licensing; the functioning and authority of the state Board of Examiners of Architects; ethics and profession-alism; disciplinary proceedings; design and construction standards; stamping and retention of architectural documents; private and government contracting; professional liability; and mechanic’s liens. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from School Planning and Management, published by Peter Li, Inc. on December 1, 2002. The length of the article is 914 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Designing with maintenance in mind. (Facility Focus).(SHW Group Architects)
Author: Kisty Hoffman
Publication: School Planning and Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2002
Publisher: Peter Li, Inc.
Volume: 41Issue: 12Page: 34(2)

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