Design & specification

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Design & Specification Articles

A home for life

A dwelling can achieve the Lifetime Home Standard by satisfying the design and specification requirements of all criteria relevant to that property type. All relevant criteria must be satisfied to achieve the standard – a dwelling will either be fully compliant or fail to achieve the standard. There are no levels of intermediate or partial compliance. read more on 'A home for life' ...
Review: Frank W Macey, Specifications in detail (reprint of 1904 edition)

Macey's book is an early UK master specification system, of which NBS is but the latest iteration. Specifications for practical architecture offers over 500 pages of sample technical specifications for building work in Britain in 1904 - this review shows how it can still be of value. read more on 'Review: Frank W Macey, Specifications in detail, Donhead, 2009 (reprint of 1904 edition)' ...
Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum

A new extension to the Museum, the Darwin Centre, is located at the west end of the original Waterhouse building. Designed by HOK, Phase 1 of the development houses 22 million specimens preserved in spirits. This phase was connected to the museum via a temporary link, but Phase 2 brings it back into the main body of the museum. The finished building adds valuable extra space and state-of-the-art, twenty-first century facilities to the original nineteenth century museum. read more on 'Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum' ...