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.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: The RIBA Plan of Work
Case Study 1: Church reordering
Chapter 2: The Client’s perspective
Case Study 2: House extension
Chapter 3: Selling the service – the Architects view
Case Study 3: Community hall
Chapter 4: Fees and appointment
Case Study 4: Rowing centre
Chapter 5: Managing the process
Case Study 5: Research laboratories
Chapter 6: Communications and stakeholders
Case Study 6: Emergency services centre
Chapter 7: Gathering and assimilating data
Case Study 7: Reuse of heritage building
Chapter 8: Developing the client’s brief
Case Study 8: House on garden plot
Chapter 9: Option appraisals
Case Study 9: Classroom wing
Chapter 10: Monitoring and reporting back
Case Study 10: Office development
Chapter 11: The next stage
Case Study 11: Affordable housing
Summary
