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The following titles relate to practice management, and are available to buy from RIBA Bookshops.

Corporate Occupier's Handbook

This comprehensive book provides a practical guide to the issues faced by all those in corporate occupation. The array of problems that tenants may encounter during a corporate occupation range from service charges and lease renewals to dilapidations and repair. Often they become contentious and lead to court action, which can be timely and expensive. The authors want to avoid this and offer practical coherent solutions to help avert litigation.

With a thorough understanding of the legal and practical implications of being a corporate tenant, Cooke and Woodhead outline exactly what is required to comply with new and existing legislation so that your corporate lease runs smoothly. It contains everything on property management within one book. It focuses solely on the occupier. It provides a unique view of property management taken from tenant's perspective.

Good Practice Guide: Painless Financial Management

How can you keep up with the relentless costs of running a practice – the monthly payroll, the rent, income tax, VAT and so on – when your fee income is prone to so much unpredictable delay? How do you know if you'll have enough cash to operate in six or twelve months' time? Are you likely to make any profit? And how can you take care of the finances when you've got a building to design?

This book answers all of these and many other questions with straightforward advice and practical solutions based on years of hard-won experience. Written in a friendly, sympathetic style, it will give you the knowledge and tools you need to plan for business success. The comprehensive guidance shows that effective financial management begins even before you start in practice and continues through to retirement. In between, chapters on project reporting, long- and short-term planning, credit control, and fee, resource and cash-flow forecasting explain the full range of tried-and-tested techniques. The concluding chapter examines the reasons why architects commonly go out of business, serving as a cautionary checklist of what to look out for.

By acknowledging the unique set of business challenges they face and offering easily-adopted solutions, this welcome book makes essential reading for all senior architects and those thinking of setting up in business.

Metric Handbook: Planning and Design Data

The Metric Handbook is a unique authoritative reference for solving everyday planning problems. It has sold well over 100,000 copies worldwide to successive generations of architects and designers – this is a book that truly belongs on every design office desk and drawing board.

This new edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice – in particular the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional.

Models: 306090 Books, Volume 11

Models are an essential component of the architect's design process. As tools of translation, models assist the exploration of the possible and illustrate the actual. While models have traditionally served as representational and structural studies, they are increasingly being used to suggest and solve new spatial and structural configurations.

Models, the eleventh volume of the highly regarded journal 306090, explores the role of the architectural model today in relation to the idea, the diagram, the technique, and the material. Models includes contributions from engineers, scientists, poets, painters, photographers, historians, urbanists and architects both young and experienced.

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