Feasibility Studies

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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?

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.

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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