CABE, the Commission for Architecture and Built Environment of England works since 10 years as advisor to architects, planners, designers and clients and share its experiences with them in order to create projects shaping lives.
CABE provides advice for clients, builders, architects and planners and helps public sector with good design criteria. The commission also supports public institutions’s expertise in the housing field. It organizes education programmes for a better built environment and prepares guides for public sector activities.
Part of these guides which are available in PDF format are now translated into Turkish by Arkitera Architecture Center as a benefit of the center’s cooperation with CABE. Being products of Buildist’s support for architectural culture, the guides’ translation is made by Burcu Karabaş.
The chosen editions for translation come forward with contents guiding not solely for England, but setting good examples globally. With this aim, the first guide "Creating excellent buildings-A guide for clients (Mükemmel Binalar Yaratmak-İşverenler İçin Rehber)"s translation is complete.
Published firstly in 2003, this guide was written and produced by Joanna Eley of Alexi Marmot Associates (AMA), together with input from Davis Langdon Consultancy (DLC) and the CABE steering committee. Sir Stuart Lipton explains its main idea in his preface with these words:
“The process of creating buildings is one of the most complex, challenging and fulfilling activities that an individual or organisation can undertake. The client role is a crucial success factor in the quality of the final product.
I have been developing new buildings and spaces for over thirty years. I am still learning how to do it well, to create places of real distinction that are attractive and desirable to the people who will use and occupy them.
As Chairman of CABE I have the opportunity to see hundreds of clients each year starting down the path of a new building project. Most will rightly set off with great aspirations, to achieve a high quality building, to keep control of the budget and to finish on time. But it is not an easy process. To be a successful client requires a combination of attributes and attitudes – leadership, boldness, shrewdness, excellent communication, determination and dedication.
One other great advantage is experience. Good clients learn from their mistakes. But many clients do not have the benefit of experience. Some will be undertaking only a small number of projects, perhaps just one building. How do they avoid the pitfalls and achieve an excellent outcome?
One way is to borrow from the experience of others. At CABE, we have a huge collective knowledge based on best practice from around the world. Our team of over 100 experts, including many successful clients, have pooled our experience to put together this client guide. The ten key success factors and the selected case studies described in this guide will help any client through the development process to produce an excellent building.
Respectively, the guides below will be translated into Turkish :
1. Creating Successful Masterplans + Agreeing a procurement route
2. Start with the Park + Land in limbo: making the best use of vacant urban spaces: public space lessons
3. Paved with with gold: the real value of street design + Civilized streets
Artists and Places
Paying for parks: eight models for funding green space
6. It's Our Space
7. Being Involved in School Design
8. Better public building
9. Design with distinction: the value of good building design in higher education
10. Design review: principles and practice
The ten guides are planned to be complete until Buildist, on September 30th-October 3rd. All editions will be free to download from http://kitap.arkitera.com.