Ferry and Brandon's Cost Planning of Buildings
Ferry and Brandon's Cost Planning of Buildings

Author: Richard Kirkham

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 357

ISBN-13: 1118887581

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This new edition of the classic quantity surveying textbook retains its basic structure but has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent changes in the industry, especially in procurement. Although over the last 20 years a number of new procurement methods have evolved and become adopted, the recession has seen many clients revert to established traditional methods of procurement so the fundamentals of cost planning still apply - and should not be ignored. The first edition of this leading textbook was published in 1964 and it continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the practice and procedures of cost planning in the procurement of buildings. This 9th edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect changes that have occurred in the UK construction industry in the past six years. Whilst retaining its core structure of the three-phase cost planning process originally developed by Ferry and Brandon, the text provides a thorough grounding in contemporary issues including procurement innovation, whole life cycle costing and modelling techniques. Designed to support the core cost planning studies covered by students reading for degrees in quantity surveying and construction management, it provides a platform for understanding the fundamental importance of effective cost planning practice. The principals of elemental cost planning are covered from both pre- and post- contract perspectives; the role of effective briefing and client/stakeholder engagement as best practice is also reinforced in this text. This new edition: Addresses The Soft Landings Framework (a new govt. initiative, especially for schools) to make buildings perform radically better and much more sustainably. Puts focus on actual performance in use at brief stage, during design and construction, and especially before and after handover. Covers recent changes in procurement, especially under the NEC and PFI Provides more on PPP and long-term maintenance issues Offers an improved companion website with tutorial worksheets for lecturers and Interactive spreadsheets for students, e.g. development appraisal models; lifecycle costing models

San Francisco’s Market Street
San Francisco’s Market Street

Author: Marques Vickers

Publisher: Marquis Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13:

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Market Street forms the vertebrae of San Francisco. First surveyed in 1847 by Jasper O’Farrell, the boulevard was laid out to provide a transition between two opposing grids. Intended to become the city’s main and widest thoroughfare, it rapidly became the busiest. In the mid 19th century, San Francisco was regarded as the most developed western American outpost of urbanity, sophistication and refinement. By the conclusion of the century, its reputation rivaled many East Coast cities. Market Street became the base for cable car and horse car lines providing service along the local commercial corridor and connections to distant transfer destinations. The 1906 catastrophic San Francisco Earthquake and Fire briefly halted development. During the reconstruction, the Market Street cable car lines would be entirely removed and replaced by electric streetcars. Automobiles would replace streetcars. During the 1970s, the introduction of the subterranean Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART) alleviated some of the traffic congestion. This edition is an architectural survey of Market Street’s historical and contemporary buildings accompanied by historical profiles. The narrative begins from the Embarcadero until the Tenderloin district. Architectural Properties Photographed: “Cupid’s Span”, The Embarcadero and Folsom Streets The Embarcadero, Piers 1, 1½, 3 and 5 Hyatt Regency Hotel, 5 Embarcadero Center Robert Frost Memorial Plaque, California and Drumm Landmark Building, 1 Market Federal Reserve Bank Building, 101 Market One California Building, 1 California Mattson Building, 245 Market 101 California Building Pacific Gas and Electric Building, 77 Beale 333 Market Building 388 Market Building Liberty Bell Slot Machine Marker, 406 Market 425 Market Building One Front Building Mechanics Monument, Market at Battery and Bush Central Plaza, 455 Market One Bush Building Battery Bridge Public Art, Between Market and Bush First Market Tower, 525 Market 525 Market Fountain American Trust Bank Building, 532 Market Flat Iron Building, 544 Market 550 Market Building 554 Market Building Patrick & Company, 560 Market Chancery Building, 562-566 Market 570-572 Market Building Market Center Building, 555-575 Market The Finance Building, 576-580 Market 581-585 Market Building Hobart Building, 582 Market 595 Market Building West Coast Life Building, 601-605 Market Building 607-611 Market Building Metropolis Trust Building, 625 Market 44 Montgomery Building California Admission Day Memorial, Market and Montgomery One Montgomery Tower, 120 Kearny One Post Building 652-660 Market Building De Young Building, 690 Market Lotte Crabtree Fountain, Market and Geary and Kearny Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Monadnock Building, 685 Market One Kearny Building Hearst Building, 5 Third Mutual Savings Bank Building, 700-716 Market Central Tower, 701-705 Market 711-713 Market Building 717 Market Building 720 Market Building 721 Market Building 722-742 Market Building Bancroft Building, 731 Market Union Trust Building, 744 Market Four Seasons Hotel and Residences, 757-765 Market Savings Union Branch of Security Pacific National Bank, 1 Grant Phelan Building, 760-784 Market Humboldt Saving Bank Building, 785 Market 799 Market Building 2 Stockton Building Hotel Zelos, 12 Fourth James Bong Building, 825-833 Market California Savings Bank Building, 830 Market Parrot Building/The Emporium, 835 Market 838-842 Market Street 856 Market Building James Flood Building, 870 Market Hallidie Plaza, Public Square at Powell Station 901 Market Building One Hallidie Plaza 944 Market Building Bank of America Building, One Powell

Designing San Francisco
Designing San Francisco

Author: Alison Isenberg

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 0691264546

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A major urban history of the design and development of postwar San Francisco Designing San Francisco is the untold story of the formative postwar decades when U.S. cities took their modern shape amid clashing visions of the future. In this pathbreaking and richly illustrated book, Alison Isenberg shifts the focus from architects and city planners—those most often hailed in histories of urban development and design—to the unsung artists, activists, and others who played pivotal roles in rebuilding San Francisco between the 1940s and the 1970s. Previous accounts of midcentury urban renewal have focused on the opposing terms set down by Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs—put simply, development versus preservation—and have followed New York City models. Now Isenberg turns our attention west to colorful, pioneering, and contentious San Francisco, where unexpectedly fierce battles were waged over iconic private and public projects like Ghirardelli Square, Golden Gateway, and the Transamerica Pyramid. When large-scale redevelopment came to low-rise San Francisco in the 1950s, the resulting rivalries and conflicts sparked the proliferation of numerous allied arts fields and their professionals, including architectural model makers, real estate publicists, graphic designers, photographers, property managers, builders, sculptors, public-interest lawyers, alternative press writers, and preservationists. Isenberg explores how these centrally engaged arts professionals brought new ideas to city, regional, and national planning and shaped novel projects across urban, suburban, and rural borders. San Francisco’s rebuilding galvanized far-reaching critiques of the inequitable competition for scarce urban land, and propelled debates over responsible public land stewardship. Isenberg challenges many truisms of this renewal era—especially the presumed male domination of postwar urban design, showing how women collaborated in city building long before feminism’s impact in the 1970s. An evocative portrait of one of the world’s great cities, Designing San Francisco provides a new paradigm for understanding past and present struggles to define the urban future.