Feasibility Studies

An Architect’s Guide

Peter Farrall

• Publisher: RIBA Publishing
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN: 9781914124280
• eBook ISBN: 9781000786248
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Professional Practice in Architecture

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

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• About the author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The RIBA Plan of Work
• 2 The Client's Perspective
• 3 Selling the Service - The Architect's View
• 4 Fees and Appointment
• 5 Managing the Process
• 6 Communications and Stakeholders
• 7 Gathering and Assimilating Data
• 8 Developing the Client's Brief
• 9 Option Appraisals
• 10 Monitoring and Reporting Back
• 11 The Next Stage
• 12 Summary
• Index