Feasibility Studies: An Architect’s Guide

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Find that you’re spending much longer than planned on a feasibility study? Or that you have drifted into detailed design without formalising an appropriate form of appointment? This practical guide details the benefits of a feasibility study. Once you’ve secured the commission, how do you ensure you’re following current best practice? Aimed at architects, it identifies the pitfalls involved in undertaking a feasibility study and explains how to set boundaries, organise the process and manage clients’ aspirations. By featuring recent live projects, alongside advice from successful architectural practices, it illustrates how a feasibility study can help achieve positive outcomes and avoid the dangers of a poorly defined brief and service proposal. Presenting the client’s, as well as the architect’s, perspective, this publication highlights why a feasibility study is a sensible way of establishing viability prior to committing to a full-service commission. It underlines the significance of ‘adding value’ as an architect. Cover Half Title Title Copyright CONTENTS About the author Acknowledgements Introduction 1 The RIBA Plan of Work Case Study 1: Church Reordering 2 The Client's Perspective Case Study 2: House Extension 3 Selling the Service - The Architect's View Case Study 3: Community Hall 4 Fees and Appointment Case Study 4: Rowing Centre 5 Managing the Process Case Study 5: Research Laboratories 6 Communications and Stakeholders Case Study 6: Emergency Services Centre 7 Gathering and Assimilating Data Case Study 7: Reuse of Heritage Building 8 Developing the Client's Brief Case Study 8: House on Garden Plot 9 Option Appraisals Case Study 9: Classroom Wing 10 Monitoring and Reporting Back Case Study 10: Office Development 11 The Next Stage Case Study 11: Affordable Housing 12 Summary Index