Design Basics: -- 1. Design Information and Dimensional Coordination -- 2. People and Space -- 3. People and Movement -- 4. Access and Inclusion -- 5. Capital and Whole Life Costs of Buildings -- Essentials: -- 6. Structure -- 7. Materials -- 8. Thermal Environment -- 9. Light -- 10. Sound -- 11. Fire -- 12. Flood-aware Design -- 13. Crime Prevention Design -- Building Types: -- 14. Agricultural Buildings -- 15. Auditoria -- 16. Civic Buildings -- 17. Community Centres -- 18. Emergency Services Buildings -- 19. Hospitals -- 20. Hotels -- 21. Houses and Flats -- 22. Housing for Older People -- 23. Housing for Students and Young People -- 24. Industrial Facilities -- 25. Industrial Storage Buildings -- 26. Laboratories -- 27. Libraries -- 28. Masterplanning and Landscaping -- 29. Offices -- 30. Museums, Art Galleries and Temporary Exhibition Spaces -- 31. Payment and Counselling Offices -- 32. Places of Worship -- 33. Primary Health Care -- 34. Restaurants and Foodservice Facilities -- 35. Retail Shops and Stores -- 36. Schools -- 37. Security and Counter-terrorism -- 38. Sports Facilities: Indoor and Outdoor -- 39. Streets and Spaces for People and Vehicles -- 40. Studios for Sound and Vision -- 41. Terminals and Transport Interchanges -- 42. Tropical design -- 43. Universities.
The Metric Handbook is the major handbook of planning and design information for architects and architecture students. Covering basic design data for all the major building types, it is the ideal starting point for any project. 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 needs to be aware of.