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| Title | Notes |
| Detailed services design | |
| Financing structure options | |
| Flood defences | |
| Green plot ratio | |
| Hedging | |
| Home buyer report | Needs examples of reports.
Explanations of who pays for it and responsibilities. |
| Jane Jacobs A. Gh. | |
| Large Industrial Sites, National Economic Development Council (Report) | |
| Le Corbusier | Photos needed.
Describe his research and books written. His eventful death. His life with other artists & influences. |
| Lewis Mumford | |
| Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Act | Amended the HGCR |
| Marine / offshore energy | |
| Material procurement | |
| Mies van der Rohe | Photos needed
More detail needed https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/Mies_van_der_Rohe_(Architect) |
| Mullion wall | |
| National Process Improvement Project | Planning |
| Nesting (BIM components?) | |
| Oscar Niemeyer | |
| Overtime ruling | |
| Pallets | |
| Panopticon | |
| Passenger hoist | |
| Patents | |
| Phillips Report | |
| Pipelines | |
| Pirelli General Cable Works Ltd v Oscar Faber & Partners | |
| Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) Calendar, | |
| Plant management | |
| Polymers | |
| Post completion insurance | |
| Power generation | |
| Price | |
| Prisons | |
| Property / land valuation | |
| Property investment market | |
| Proptech | |
| Railway design and construction | |
| Reduce, reuse and recycle | |
| Refacing stone | |
| Regulated and unregulated energy consumption | |
| Rent | |
| Renzo Piano | |
| Risk assessment under The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. | |
| Security consultant | |
| 'sistering' floor joists | |
| Smoke damper | See fire damper and approved document b2 definition |
| Splashback | |
| Solar assisted heat pump | |
| Sources of finance | |
| Space planning | Office space planning exists |
| Spandrel / spandrel panel | |
| Special licences | |
| Special parliamentary procedure | |
| Statutory instruments | |
| Stud | |
| Summary judgement | |
| Supplier assessment forms | |
| Supports over openings/Arches | |
| Synclastic | |
| System (BIM) | |
| Temporary site services | |
| Tenants | |
| Tension cable structure | |
| Tension membrane structure | |
| Terry Farrell | |
| Timber roof | |
| Town and Country Planning (Local Planning) (England) Regulations 2012 | |
| Town planning | |
| Transport / traffic | |
| Transport/traffic engineer | |
| Underwater foundations | |
| Urban Archaeological Database | See Historic Environment Record |
| Urban sprawl | |
| Utilities connection | |
| UK Guarantee Scheme for infrastructure | |
| Valuation | |
| Vehicle marshal | |
| Vibrations | |
| Views | London View Management Framework already exists as does rights to light |
| Walter Segal | |
| Warranties | Collateral warranties exists |
| Water Bill | |
| Wellpoint | |
| Wet trades | |
| White paper | |
| Winches | |
| Wind catcher | |
| Wood Report | |
| Zone (BIM) |
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