Design and the economics of building, Ralph Morton and David Jaggar.
By: Morton, Ralph [author.]
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Contributor(s): Jaggar, David [author.].
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BookPublisher: Oxon ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2016Copyright date: ©1995Description: xviii, 418 pages : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138146099 (hardback).Subject(s): Building -- Estimates | Architecture -- Designs and plansDDC classification: 690.0681 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 690.0681 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00161936 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
A textbook on design economics for students of architecture, building and quantity surveying, it examines the links between design and the costs of building as well as more general economic issues and their significance for designers and builders.
Bibliography: (pages 405-412) and index.
Part I: Basic issues in the design and economics of building -- The economic significance of building design -- Value for money - whose responsibility -- The structure of building costs - a first approach -- Part II: The economic context: materials, labour and physical capital -- Materials: markets and prices -- Human resources for building -- Technology: from steampower to robots -- Construction - a unique industry? -- Part III: Economic aspects of design decisions -- Costs and choices - the short-term and the long-term -- Concept, shape, plan: morphology and cost -- Structure and envelope -- Energy and services -- Part IV: Relating design choices to building and its management -- Programme, cash flow and buildability -- Cost prediction - science or guesswork? -- The procurement of buildings -- Part V: Cost limits and values -- Commercial values and the property market -- Values, cost limits and prices: the case of housing -- The value of architecture.
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Ralph Morton MA (Oxon) Ph.D. was until his retirement Director of the School of the Built Environment at Liverpool John Moores University; during the previous twenty years he lectured on social and economic aspects of architecture both in the School of Architecture and other University departments. He has written and researched on housing and on architectural education, was a member of the CNAA Architecture Board and author of a report to the RIBA on economics teaching in Schools of Architecture across the world.
David Jaggar M.Phil. FRICS, MACostE is Professor of Construction Economics in the School of the Built Environment at Liverpool John Moores University. He has many years of experience in industry and higher education as practitioner and consultant, teacher and researcher in the field of construction economics. He has published widely and given conference papers in many parts of the world; his consultancy has included work for the World Bank, North West Water and the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors. He is joint co-ordinator of CIB W 92 Procurement Systems, which is concerned with international building procurement issues.