Feasibility Studies: An Architect's Guide

by Peter Farrall

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781914124280
Publisher:	RIBA Publishing
Publication date:	02/01/2023
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Peter Farrall (BA, Dip Arch, RIBA) is a senior lecturer at the University of Liverpool, where he is responsible for professional studies and a studio tutor on the BA and MArch courses. He is Past President of the Liverpool Architectural Society, served on the National Council and Conduct Committee of the RIBA, and acts as an examiner for the RIBA Part 3 in the UK and abroad.

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