Last edited 25 Dec 2020
Urban design course essentials
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[edit] Contemporary cities
- Access and inclusion in the built environment: policy and guidance
- Allotment
- Biodiversity in the urban environment
- Business improvement district
- City beautiful
- Changing lifestyles in the built environment
- Community energy network
- Community right to challenge
- Community right to reclaim land
- Cycling and walking plan
- Densification
- Designing smart cities
- Devolution
- Digital Built Britain v BIM
- Digital Social Networks and the Temporary Reconciliation of Abandoned Urban land
- Ecobuild 2016 - What makes good housing?
- Ecobuild 2016 - What makes housing fit for the future?
- Enterprise zones
- Gentrification
- Growth deals for local enterprise partnerships
- Housing Strategy for England
- Housing zones
- Internet of things
- Living in the hyperreal post-modern city
- Main town centre uses
- Measuring the success of smart cities
- Megacity
- Metropolitan counties
- New model for Britain's high streets
- Public space
- Public space intervention
- Regional spatial strategies RSS
- Sink estate regeneration plans
- The compact sustainable city
- The full cost of poor housing
- The future of the green belt
[edit] Development of cities and their architecture
- A new capital for the UK
- Archaeology in the built environment
- British post-war mass housing
- Cities Devolution Bill
- City deals
- Civil Engineering during the Industrial Revolution in Britain
- Construction efficiency: A tale of two developed countries
- Conservation of the historic environment
- Creating strong communities – measuring social sustainability in new housing development
- Eco town
- Favela
- Garden cities
- Green belt
- Heritage asset
- High street (planning and policy)
- Historic environment
- Home ownership
- Listed buildings
- Maintenance
- Mixed use development
- Must cities grow to compete?
- National Parks
- Nineteenth century building types
- Primary shopping area definition
- Public building definition
- Ramsar sites
- Regeneration
- Social housing
- Structure relocation
- Terraced houses and the public realm
- Towards an urban renaissance
- Town centre definition
- Vacant building credit
[edit] Planning
- Approximate quantities cost plan.
- Architect's instruction
- BCIS.
- BCIS elements.
- Bills of quantities.
- Completion of construction contracts
- Construction contract conditions
- Construction contractor
- Construction manager
- Construction organisations and strategy
- Construction progress meeting
- Construction progress report
- Construction stage report
- Construction work packaging
- Contractor vs supplier
- Contractor's proposals for building design and construction
- Contractors' all-risk insurance
- Cost consultant
- Cost plans for construction projects
- Design coordination
- Design management
- Digital socialism and the non-planners
- Document control in building design and construction
- Early warning notice
- Elemental cost plan
- End of contract report
- End of stage report for construction
- Extension of time EOT in construction contracts
- Extended aftercare for completed construction works
- Final account.
- Final report for construction works
- Handover construction site to the client
- Initial cost appraisals.
- Key performance indicators KPI
- Lean construction
- Management contractor
- Masterplanning
- Major hazard for planning purposes
- Method statement for construction
- Milestones
- Mobilisation
- Materials on site
- Outturn cost.
- Possession of the site by the contractor
- Practical completion
- Pre-contract meeting for construction contracts
- Pre-demolition and pre-refurbishment audits
- Pre-tender estimate for contracts
- Preliminaries in construction
- Programme consultant
- Programme float for construction projects
- Programme for building design and construction
- Project handbook
- Project manager's report for building design and construction
- Project team for building design and construction
- Quality control for construction works
- Record keeping
- Rural productivity plan
- Schedule of defects
- Schedule of work for construction
- Scheduling construction activities
- Sectional completion in construction contracts
- Simplified planning zones SPZ
- Supply chain management in construction
- Tender pricing document
- Urban Task Force
- Whole-life costs.
- Works contractor.
[edit] Principles of design
[edit] Infrastructure
- Accessibility in the built environment
- Big data
- Bluetooth
- Bridge construction
- Community infrastructure levy
- Crossrail 2
- Cycling and walking plan
- Design standards for road development and improvement schemes
- Engineering smart cities
- Ethernet
- Global positioning systems and global navigation satellite systems
- Government construction and infrastructure pipelines
- Green infrastructure
- Growth and Infrastructure Act
- High Speed 2 (HS2)
- Highway drainage
- In-building wireless
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure and Projects Authority
- Internet of things
- Keeping Humber bridge moving
- Local area network
- London infrastructure plan
- Masterplanning
- National heat map
- National Infrastructure Delivery Plan 2016-2021
- National infrastructure plan
- Northern Powerhouse transport blueprint
- Open data
- Overview of the road development process
- Smart buildings
- Smart home
- Smart technology
- River engineering
- Road construction
- Road development process
- Road improvement scheme consultation
- Road investment strategy
- Runway construction
- Transport assessment
- Transport design and health
- Tunnelling
- Types of road and street
- Water engineering
- WiFi
[edit] Management
- Construction management: outline work plan.
- Design and build: outline work plan.
- Management contract: outline work plan.
- Public project: outline work plan.
- Self-build home: outline work plan.
- Step-by-step guide to using BIM on projects.
- Traditional contract: outline work plan.
[edit] Real estate and property development
- Affordable housing
- Affordable rented housing
- Ancient woodland
- Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty AONB
- Asset of community value
- Brownfield land
- Brownfield registers
- Building Preservation Notice BPN
- Buy to leave
- Caveat emptor in property sales
- Certificate of ownership
- Change of use class
- Cohousing
- Community infrastructure levy CIL
- Community right to build
- Conservation area
- Conservation of the historic environment
- Consultation process
- Definition of tree for planning purposes
- Designated areas
- Desk study
- Detailed planning application
- Development appraisal
- Development benefits scheme
- Development consent order
- Development management
- Development Management Procedure Order
- Development plan
- Development plan documents DPD
- Discharge of planning conditions
- Duty to cooperate
- Equity in property
- Fast track planning proposals
- Flood risk
- General development order
- Getting your planning application right first time
- Glossary of property law terms
- Green belt
- Greenfield land
- Ground rent
- Historic environment
- Housing tenure
- Housing zones
- Land banking
- Landlord and Tenant Act
- Leasehold
- Legal indemnity insurance
- Licence to alter
- Listed buildings
- Local development orders
- Local development scheme LDS
- Local planning authority
- Local strategic partnership LSP
- Overage in property sales
- Pepper-potting
- Peppercorn rent
- Permitted development
- Planning authority
- Planning permission
- Pre-application advice for planning permission
- Prior approval for permitted development
- Private rented sector
- Quiet enjoyment
- Rating evaluation.
- Real estate investment trust REIT
- Rental method of rating valuation
- Residual valuation of land
- Retrospective planning permission
- Right of support
- Right of way
- Right to acquire
- Right to buy
- Right to contest
- Right to manage for leaseholders
- Right to rent
- Rural exception sites
- Safeguarding land
- Securing planning permission for self-build homes
- Self-build home: project plan
- Self build initiative
- Sites of special scientific interest SSSI
- Social housing
- Special purpose vehicles for building development
- Statutory approvals for buildings
- Strategic housing market assessments
- Town centre definition
- Town planner
- Use class designation for land and buildings
- Vendor survey
- Windfall site
- World heritage site
[edit] Environment and sustainability
- Air quality
- Airborne sound
- BFRC window rating scheme WER
- Bottom-up approach to address the challenges of low-carbon eco-cites
- Building a better quality of life: A strategy for more sustainable construction
- Building energy management systems (BEMS) for data centres
- Building performance metrics
- BREEAM
- Carbon Portal for BIM
- Climate change science
- Code for Sustainable Homes
- Cold stress
- Combined heat and power CHP
- Convection in buildings
- Developing system intelligence for optimising building electricity networks
- Do green buildings pay?
- Dry-bulb temperature
- Emissivity
- Empower community energy management
- Energy certificates for buildings
- Environmental impact assessment EIA
- Environmental plan for building design and construction
- Evolving opportunities for providing thermal comfort
- Flanking sound
- Floor insulation
- Forests
- Green building
- Green infrastructure
- Happold lecture on climate change
- Health and productivity in sustainable buildings
- Heat stress
- Impact sound
- Heating
- K-value
- Kyoto Protocol
- Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED
- Life cycle assessment
- Limiting fabric parameters.
- Mean radiant temperature.
- Minimum energy efficiency standard regulations for domestic and non-domestic buildings
- Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer
- Nearly zero energy buildings
- Operative temperature.
- Overheating.
- Performance gap
- Radiant heating
- Renewable energy
- Retrofit
- Room data sheet
- Scoping study for environmental impact assessment
- Screening decision for environmental impact assessment
- Shading coefficient
- Solar heat gain coefficient
- Sound absorption coefficient
- Sound frequency
- Sound v noise
- Structure-borne sound
- Sustainability in building design and construction
- Sustainable water
- Target emission rate TER
- Temperature
- The business case for adapting buildings to climate change
- The effectiveness of current smart home technologies to improve energy efficiency
- The Future of Electricity in Domestic Buildings
- Thermal admittance
- Thermal behaviour of architectural fabric structures
- Thermal bridge.
- Thermal comfort in buildings
- Thermal conduction in buildings
- Thermal indices
- Thermal mass
- Thermal pleasure in the built environment
- Thermographic survey
- U-values
- Wet-bulb temperature.
- Wet-bulb globe temperature.
- Zero carbon homes
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