Metric handbook :  planning and design data / 
edited by David Littlefield. 
 - 3rd ed. 
 - Oxford :  Architectural Press,  2007. 
 - 1 v. (various pagings) :  ill. ;  30 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index. 
<br/><br/>Notation, drawing office practice and dimensional coordination -- Basic design data: People and space -- Practice management -- Capital and whole life costs of buildings -- Design basics: Building and movement -- Master planning and urban design -- Landscape design -- Houses and flats -- Student housing and housing for young people -- Homes for older people -- Hotels -- Offices -- Retail shops and stores -- Industrial facilities -- Industrial storage buildings -- Agricultural buildings -- Restaurants and foodservice facilities -- Indoor sports facilities -- Outdoor sports and stadia -- Community centres -- Schools -- Higher education -- Laboratories -- Primary health care -- Hospitals -- Payment and counseling offices -- Public buildings -- Museums, art galleries and temporary exhibition space -- Libraries and information centres -- Terminals and transport interchanges -- Designing for vehicles -- Studios for sound and vision -- Auditoria -- Places for worship -- Tropical design -- Structure -- Materials -- Windows, doors, pipes and cables -- Thermal environment -- Light -- Sound -- Fire -- Security -- Access and inclusion -- Access for maintenance -- Service distribution. 
<br/><br/> "The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design data for architects. This new edition has been updated to include the most recent changes to regulation and practice - in particular the increasing emphasis on environmental legislation - to meet the needs of the modern building design professional. For each building type the book gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data, and succinct guidance on how to use the information and what regulations the designer may need to be aware of." - Back cover 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780750652810 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Architecture--Standards--Handbooks, manuals, etc.<br/>Building--Details--Drawings.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>721.028