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Starting a Practice

Simon Foxell
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781859469880
  • Format: Paperback
  • Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2021
  • Publisher: RIBA Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Running your own practice can bring immense job satisfaction, but it is not without its risks. Do you have all the information at hand to set up confidently on your own?

Comprehensive, accessible and easy to use, Starting a Practice helps architects navigate the pitfalls associated with establishing a successful business.

This fully updated 3rd edition is mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 and approaches starting a business as if it were a design project, complete with briefing, sketching layouts and delivery. It features new material on professionalism and ethics, sustainable development and achieving a net-zero carbon emission built environment.

Invaluable for Part 3 students, early practitioners and those considering setting up from scratch or wanting to consolidate an existing business, Starting a Practice gives architects the tools they need to thrive when setting out alone.

Features essential guidance on:

• Preparing a business plan
• Choosing the right company structure
• Setting aspirations
• Monitoring finances
• Getting noticed
• Securing work
• Retaining and developing staff
• Planning for disaster.
About Simon Foxell
Simon Foxell is Principal of The Architects Practice. He has designed buildings across the UK including houses, schools and offices and is a recipient of the prestigious Benedictus Prize awarded by the Union of International Architects. In recent years he has worked with schools and local authorities, designing new facilities and advising on development programmes. He was lead design adviser to Birmingham City Council’s Transforming Education programme from 2007 to 2010. He is a core member and co-ordinator of the Edge, the built environment think tank. He is a former member of the RIBA Council and Board and was Chair of both Policy and Strategy and RIBA London region. He sat on the RIBA’s recent Ethics and Sustainable Development Commission. He has authored multiple books, most recently Professionalism for the Built Environment (Routledge, 2019).

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