Watts Pocket Handbook

The Essential Guide to Property and Construction
30. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-05819-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 766 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm

This milestone 30th edition of the Watts Pocket Handbook has had a thorough overhaul and renews its commitment to share industry knowledge by providing technical and legal information across a comprehensive spread of property and construction topics.

The Handbook provides specialist information and guidance on a vast selection of related subjects including:

- Environmental and sustainability issues;

- Contracts and procurement;

- Design and construction;

- Health and safety;

- Regulations and standards;

- Legal issues and insurance;

- Facilities management;

- Materials and defects; and

- Technology, innovation and the future.

Watts Pocket Handbook remains the must-have reference book for professionals and students engaged in construction, building surveying, services engineering, architecture, project management, facilities management, quantity surveying, property development and much more.

Zielgruppe

Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rushton, Trevor

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Haustechnik, Gebäudeautomatisierung
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Bauingenieurwesen Baukonstruktion, Baufachmaterialien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Ökologische Aspekte in der Architektur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Property Ownership and Investment

2. Development and Procurement

3. Legislation

4. Design

5. Materials and Defects

6. Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance

7. Useful Resources

Über Autor(innen)

Trevor Rushton is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Chartered Building Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. He qualified as a Building Surveyor in 1983.

He has been involved with and the editor of the Watts Pocket Handbook virtually since its inception in 1983. He is the author of Investigating Deleterious and Hazardous Building Materials and Defects in Industrial and Commercial Buildings both published by RICS Books. He has contributed numerous articles to the Built Environment Journal, was involved in the initial development of ISURV and is a regular speaker at RICS conferences and seminars.