This volume of the Technologies of Architecture series provides a detailed and holistic description of the development process, illustrated with case studies. The author encourages students to become environmentally responsible designers.

The RIBA Job Book is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ long-established and recognised standard reference for running construction projects. This major new update fully reflects the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013 and contemporary working practice. It embraces themes of collaboration within the project team, better briefing, advances in information technology and BIM, and the continued importance of sustainability including valuable detail on a range of ‘cradle to grave’ processes in a building project. Applicable to all forms of procurement and to all sizes and types of project, the RIBA Job Book provides a systematic operational framework that is comprehensive in scope and easy-to-follow, and which examines step-by-step the key obligations of the architect or lead consultant. Setting out all the actions to be undertaken throughout a project, it includes invaluable checklists, notes and practical guidance.

Output in infrastructure is forecast to rise by 6.6% in 2013 & 7.6% in 2014, driven by Highways Agency's capital budget funding, by rail and by electricity Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2014 gives costs for both general and civil engineering works and highway works, and provides a full breakdown of labour, plant and mate