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• The architypal Metric Planning Book. The single most useful reference book for construction industry designers.
  Contains information on a wide variety of building types and anthropomorphic (body size) data that is invaluable when planning a building.
  Split into sections for each building type, the book contains detailed information on the size of typical furniture, machinery, access and space requirements as well as some basic design constraints for all manner of items.
  If I need to know what size a playing pitch is, how much room to leave around furniture or even which room should be next to which I turn to this.
• Must-have reference book for students and professionals. Does what it says on the cover, a no-frills source of data to complement your professional work and studies. Extremely useful, proved indispensable for all my assignments to date. Not the most exciting of books to buy, but excellent value for money. It saves me having one on permanent loan from the library, and I now have the latest 2008 edition with even more planning and design data.
• Not amazing but better than the rest!. Here is an area where the old school of design still lingers, the book is very suitable for specific tasks but really needs improving on. Having said that I threw away my copy of Charlotte Baden-Powell s book as soon as I got this - because even this tome is much more useable than hers.
• Must-have reference book. This is a valuable pool of infomation on ergonomics, minimum dimensions, information on parking, vehicle dimensions, building dimensions, design of buildings for different purposes and much, much more. I probably have only used about a tenth of the information within the book (I don t have much use for info on airport design, for example) but we use it regularly in our office as a reference book and should we ever need to know the dimensions of a cow, we know just where to look....
• solid!. With data on all kinds of programmatic requirements and some valuable information on structures and materials this is a book architecture students should BORROW from the library or the office. This book can tell you the minimum ceiling height of a badminton court or the density of steel - but it won t design your project!

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