All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 0LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers. | The Architect’s Guide to Running a Job for M & M The difficulty about a gentlemen’s agreement is that is depends on the continued existence of the gentlemen. The Architect’s Guide to Running a Job Sixth edition RONALD GREEN, RIBA AADip FCSD WithaforewordbySirHughCasson Architectural Press OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Architectural Press An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First published by The Architectural Press Ltd 1962 Fourth edition 1986 Fifth edition 1995 Sixth edition 2001 Reprinted 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000 # Ronald Green 1986, 1995, 2001 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 0LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Green, Ronald, 1927 June 12- The architect’s guide to running a job. – 6th ed. 1. Architectural practice – Great Britain 2. Architectural contracts – Great Britain I. Title 0 0941 ISBN 0 7506 5343 4 Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall Contents in practice sequence Foreword vii 29 Materials 58 Note to sixth edition viii 30 Schedules 60 Preface ix 31 Technical representatives 62 Introduction 1 32 Construction contract 64 1 Preliminary enquiries 2 33 Sub-trades 66 2 Office programme 4