Starting a Practice: A Plan of Work

Starting a Practice provides essential guidance for architects to set up their own practice confidently, including preparing a business plan, choosing the right company structure, and securing work. It is mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 and covers professionalism, ethics, sustainable development, and achieving a net-zero carbon emission built environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2021
Publisher: RIBA Publishing

Starting your own practice can bring immense job satisfaction, but it is not without its risks. Do you have all the information at hand to set up confidently on your own?

Comprehensive, accessible, and easy to use, Starting a Practice helps architects navigate the pitfalls associated with establishing a successful business. This fully updated 3rd edition is mapped to the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 and approaches starting a business as if it were a design project, complete with briefing, sketching layouts, and delivery. It features new material on professionalism and ethics, sustainable development, and achieving a net-zero carbon emission built environment.

Invaluable for Part 3 students, early practitioners, and those considering setting up from scratch or wanting to consolidate an existing business, Starting a Practice gives architects the tools they need to thrive when setting out alone.

Features essential guidance on:

• Preparing a business plan
• Choosing the right company structure
• Setting aspirations
• Monitoring finances
• Getting noticed
• Securing work
• Retaining and developing staff
• Planning for disaster.

Weight: 674g
Dimension: 191 x 246 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781859469880
Edition number: 3 ed