Customer reviews for The Metric Handbook -

“This book is definitely for architecture students and professional architects! It will guide you through practises and studio assignments, in terms of designing appropriate sizes in architectural space and metric systems that will solve issues in your design. This book is a great investment as you will use it throughout your career as an architect.”

“The single most useful reference book for construction industry designers.
Contains information on a wide variety of building types and anthropomorphic (body size) data that is invaluable when planning a building.
Split into sections for each building type, the book contains detailed information on the size of typical furniture, machinery, access and space requirements as well as some basic design constraints for all manner of items.
If I need to know what size a playing pitch is, how much room to leave around furniture or even which room should be next to which I turn to this.”

“This is a brilliant book! After discovering this handbook, through a colleague at work, I felt I just had to have my own copy. As a design manager for a large construction company, it is invaluable to have a ready source of all those data that allow me to check for a complete and workable design – the devil is in the detail – and the details are almost sure to be here. Just about every type of public and private building or facility is dealt with, from farms to factories and from law courts to laboratories. There are also sections on generic aspects such as HVAC, lighting, sound and structural materials. All the data is fully referenced back to source and relevant codes and standards.”