Spring Is Coming—And So Is the New

Summary: The Architect’s Handbook of Professional Practice, Fourteenth Edition, is arriving with the robins and warm sunshine and is just as welcome! With more than a third of it new content and significant revisions throughout, the AIA’s new Handbook, which will be available toward the end of March, reflects how all aspects of architecture practice reflect current business, legal, and technical trends. But don’t take our word for it—see a table of contents of what’s in the new Handbook’s 1,000 pages and read a sample chapter on the AIA Web site.

Now available in a convenient book/CD package, the Fourteenth Edition now contains two accompanying CD-ROMs:

• CD One includes the complete book’s content, in a viewer that can be downloaded to a PC computer, allowing easy searching of the entire book
• CD Two provides samples of all AIA Contract Documents in PDF format for Mac and PC computers.

The 14th edition of the Handbook also contains:

• In-depth new coverage of topics on sustainable design, managing multiple offices, lifelong learning, mentoring, and team building
• Major revised content on programming, project management, construction contract administration, risk management, and ethics
• Coverage of small-firm considerations as well as emerging issues such as integrated practice
• Useful appendices with lists of related organizations, copies of the 2007 versions of the A201 general conditions and the B101 owner-architect agreement, and a useful expanded glossary.

Pre-buy your copy today—there’s a special online offer from the AIA Bookstore (right).