Built Environment Resources

1. Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Abacus Construction Index  Abacus Construction Index is a directory of recommended online resources for UK architects, engineers and other construction professionals.

ADAM: the Art, Design, Architecture and Media Information Gateway A service designed to trace quality internet information.

ArchINFORM A database of over 5000 built and unrealised mainly twentieth-century projects from various architects and planners.

AEC Info Over 300,000 pages of American building material information, including specifications and CAD details.

Arthur Yarnell's Homepage Website of Arthur Yarnell, providing a gateway to information for Property and Construction students.

AskBRE The information site provided for every professional concerned with The Built Environment, by The Building Research Establishment

Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) The site for construction managers and professionals.

Chartered Insitution of Building Services Engineers A useful site for viewing CIBSE research, and publications such as Design Guides.

Davis Langdon and Seah International Downloadable cost models for various building types.

Federation of Master Builders (BRIX) The host provides, inter alia, lists of publications, and master builders around the UK.

Institution of Structural Engineers The technical section of the website contains consultation papers, reviews of codes and drafts of current papers.

Office for National Statistics The government site for statistics, arranged by subject.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister pdf versions of The Building Regulations can be found online here, but the text is not searchable. (See also Construction Information service from databases).

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors RICS is one of the largest professional associations in the world, existing to promote and maintain construction industry standards and to provide information.
 

3. Estate Management and Property

Arthur Yarnell's Homepage Website of Arthur Yarnell, providing a gateway to information for Property and Construction students.

College of Estate Management CEM provides distance education and training to property professionals and the construction industry. Its research reports are listed.

E-Conveyancing Free access to the latest developments in electronic conveyancing, with links to relevant legislation and discussion documents.

Estates Gazette Interactive A faculty ID and password is needed to access this site

Housenet Check this UK site to view prices in the property market around the country.

Info4study.co.uk   This is an information site which features access to a free e-book,  a bookshop, details of postgraduate built environment courses and other useful links.

National Land Use Database Selected data on brownfield and derelict land sites available, plus key published documents relating to data specifications, monitoring skills, etc

Property Law Website of Gary Webber, providing a gateway to legal information for those in the Property market.

4. Housing, Planning and the Environment

Centre for Housing Policy, York University News of research projects and publications.

Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) The professional association dedicated to raising standards of housing management. Its list of publications is useful.

The Countryside Agency The Countryside Agency works to achieve the best for the English countryside through conservation, research, and influencing central and local government.

Creative Spaces Creative Spaces is a website for all those looking for new ways to involve people creatively in planning the future of urban sites.

Department of Transport The government site for information on housing and planning. Recent press releases, consultation papers, reports, statistics and publications are included.

DIGIMAP This service delivers Ordnance Survey Map Data to UK Higher Education. Maps can be produced online and printed on A4 paper or digital map data downloaded for use with appropriate application software such as CAD or GIS. (ATHENS User Id and Password required. Once you have registered with ATHENS, please complete the Digimap Personal Registration Form - on the Digimap site ; sign it and contact Russell Good (Digimap Site Representative) in the Faculty of the Built Environment (Room E609). to complete your registration ).

Housing Corporation News from the Corporation, Best Practice and Architectural reports.

Housing Today Journal articles on homelessness available from Housing Today and other journals.

ICE Virtual Library  While much information on this site is free many of the pages are subscription only. However the ICE catalogue can be searched.

Images of England A digital library from English National Heritage and National Monuments Record, charting England's 370,000 listed buildings, for use in private research or study. Registration is required.

Inside Housing Headlines and job adverts from the current week's copy.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation A helpful site for research into housing, homelessness and social problems.

Megacities 2000 Lectures, texts, reports and statistics on large cities, from a disseminating Netherlands body.

National Housing Federation The NHF is the voice for independent social landlords.

Office for National Statistics The government statistics site.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister The new Office brings together regional and local government (including the regional Government Offices), housing, planning and regeneration along with the social exclusion unit and neighbourhood renewal.

Online planning A series of working papers from the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis.

Ordnance Survey Britain's national mapping agency, listing its products and data available.

The Planners Web This is a site of urban and regional resources, maintained by Planning Commissioners Journal.

Royal Institute of Town Planning An archive of policy statements is available on this website.

Social Exclusion Unit Includes Deprivation Indexes, Local Authority case studies and news on minority ethnic issues.

SOSIG (Social Science Information Gateway) Provides access to a huge range of Internet resources relevant to the social sciences. Searchable by keyword, or you can browse through resources in broad subject areas.

5. SPECIAL STUDIES AND DISSERTATIONS

Architecture, Housing and Planning dissertations from 1992 onwards are kept in the Kenrick library and are generally available for borrowing.  There are a number of pre-1992 volumes kept in the stack, and you may ask for these at the Library Enquiry Desk. To view our current holding please select from the following list:

No recent Landscape dissertations have been deposited with the library, and Property and Construction School examples are kept in the Edge Information Room (629). This means they are not available at weekends.

Unfortunately there is insufficient space either in the library or in the Information Room for all the Built Environment dissertations to be kept in a united collection.

6. Electronic Architecture Journals and other useful design sites

Arcadata  Italian Architecture Magazine (English Also).

Arch'it Interamente dedicato a chi pensa e fa architetture. Progettisti, costruttori, studenti e chiunque sia coinvolto nel mondo del costruire.

Archinet Das erste Deutsche Architektur-online-magazin.

Architectural Forum This forum exists to provide a means of promoting aesthetic and architectural discussion.

Architecture Australia The official national magazine of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects. Published bi-monthly, it reviews the latest in Australian architecture and covers important issues relating to the profession.

ARKKITHTI - Arkkithti - The Finnish Architecture Magazine

Australian Building News Online

BauArt Schriftenreihe fuer Architektur, Staedtebau, Grafik Design und Kunst

Casa & Estilo Internacional

The City Review covers architecture, planning, preservation, real estate, museums, auctions, books, photography, computer art and New York City affairs. It is edited by Carter B. Horsley

Contempt Interesting, creatively designed site, featuring architecture works, photography, design and other related works.

Design Cost & Data  

Design Intelligence Design Intelligence is a newsletter dealing with business and strategic issues for design professionals.

Electrical Contractor Magazine /NECA Only electrical contractors can have our print edition mailed to them. This site is open to all!

GIS World, Inc. (GIS Magazines, Books & Conferences)

Implosion Implosion is fundamentally based on the phenomenology of space of O. F. Bollnow.

Interactive Homes(tm) Magazine  
Interactive Homes(tm)is distributed nationally as a Home Plans and Decorating Ideas Magazine on CD-ROM. The reader can view real homes, fully decorated, built from plans they can purchase. Interactive Homes is a sales channel for designers and a media for advertisers.

Custom Editions are available which feature only the homes of a client, allowing the builder to avoid the cost of permanent models.

MacMag - Glasgow School of Art The student publication of the Mackintosh School of Architecture at the Glasgow School of Art.

Metropolis Metropolis magazine is committed to the examination of contemporary life through focusing on the various design disciplines, including architecture, interior design, product design, graphic design, crafts, planning and preservation.

nextroom nextroom - architektur im netz

Officework An office design and layout site.

Postmodern Culture Published by North Carolina State University, Oxford University Press, and the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

Resource for Urban Design Information - RUDI is the leading urban design web site and offers high quality information about good practice in urban design.

Traditional Building

Z.one Architecture is an on-line publication presenting contemporary architecture from Quebec with news updates on competition and other events every two days.

This page last updated  by Norman Ashfield