This book had its origins in the series of articles of the
same name published in the Architects’ Journalin 1976
and 1977. My thanks are due therefore to my fellow
contributors to that series, Patricia Tutt, Chris Daltry
and David Crawshaw, for many stimulating discussions
during its production, and to the Architects’ Journalfor
allowing me to reproduce material from it. The text of
the first edition, however, was completely rewritten,
and responsibility for the views expressed and
recommendations made therein were mine
alone.The development of CAD since publication of the
third edition has led to a major revision and up-dating
to include details of the application of the latest
CAD techniques to the whole field of production
drawings. This has led to the introduction as
collaborator of Andrew Bichard, the well-known
architect and writer on CAD topics, who is an
acknowledged leader in the field. He has written the
sections on CAD, and in particular all the CAD
drawings have been produced by him.It had been hoped at the outset to illustrate the book with
actual drawings taken from live projects, but for various
reasons this proved to be impracticable. Invariably the
scale was wrong, or the drawing was too big, or was too
profusely covered with detail irrelevant to the immediate
purpose. In the event the drawings in the book have
been drawn for it especially, or have been redrawn for it
from source material provided by others. My thanks for
providing such material are due to Messrs Oscar Garry
and Partners, the Department of Health and Social
Security, Messrs Kenchington Little and Partners,
Autodesk Ltd and the Property Services Agency. Thanks
are also due to The British Standards Institution, The
Royal Institute of British Architects, and the Construction
Project Information Committee for permission to use
material for which they hold the copyright.A final caveat: the illustrations have been selected –
indeed, in many instances devised – solely for their
function in illustrating points made in the text, and are
not presented as working details to be used for any
other purpose.Introduction v
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