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New Rules of Thumb is due out early 2011

December 2010

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BSRIA's eagerly awaited new edition of Rules of Thumb is due for publication early 2011. Rules of Thumb, one of BSRIA's most popular guides, has been designed to gather together the most common rules of thumb for the initial stages of designing a building and its services. The new guide has been updated and includes many improvements including a spiral-bound format to make it easier to use in your office and on site.

As with our previous guide, it provides extremely useful values to inform the early stages of design, such as project inception and outline briefing, feasibility planning, the assessment of global loads and space requirement. It also enables a grasp of services costs.

New features include:

• the latest manufacturers' technical information
• feedback from completed projects
• up-to-date industry design guidance
• increased guidance about space and weight allowances, presented in a new graphical format
• CO2 emissions and energy consumption benchmarks 
• information about renewable technologies
• increased guidance about costs, expanded to include maintenance, operation and life cycle information.

The new Rules of Thumb will supersede the previous edition (code BG14/2003).

There will be limited advertising opportunities in this guide (they will be allocated on a first come first served basis). For further information contact Catherine England or tel 01344 465541.

If you would like to be contacted when this publication is launched, please email the Bookshop