Metric Handbook

Pamela Buxton is a freelance architecture and design journalist. She has contributed to many national newspapers, consumer magazines and trade publications including the architecture publications Building Design and RIBA Journal. .

Preface Acknowledgements Design Basics 1. Design Information and Dimensional Coordination 2. People and Space 3. People and Movement 4. Access and Inclusion 5. Capital and Whole Life Costs of Buildings Essentials 6. Structure 7. Materials 8. Thermal Environment 9. Light 10. Sound 11. Fire 12. Flood-aware Design 13. Crime Prevention Design Building Types 14. Agricultural Buildings 15. Auditoria 16. Civic Buildings 17. Community Centres 18. Emergency Services Buildings 19. Hospitals 20. Hotels 21. Houses and Flats 22. Housing for Older People 23. Housing for Students and Young People 24. Industrial Facilities 25. Industrial Storage Buildings 26. Laboratories 27. Libraries 28. Masterplanning and Landscaping 29. Offices 30. Museums, Art Galleries and Temporary Exhibition Spaces 31. Payment and Counselling Offices 32. Places of Worship 33. Primary Health Care 34. Restaurants and Foodservice Facilities 35. Retail Shops and Stores 36. Schools 37. Security and Counter-terrorism 38. Sports Facilities: Indoor and Outdoor 39. Streets and Spaces for People and Vehicles 40. Studios for Sound and Vision 41. Terminals and Transport Interchanges 42. Tropical design 43. Universities Appendix A - SI System Appendix B – Conversion Factors and Tables Index