Part 1: Introduction to the construction industry and the architectural profession
1. Introduction
2. The Construction Industry
3. The Architectural Profession
4. Setting up a practice
5. Marketing and Business Development
6. People management
7. Finances
8. Environmental sustainability
9. Project delivery
10. Planning
11. Building Control and CDM
12. Building contracts
13. Quality Assurance
14. Computing
Biography
Ben Vickery is an architect with more than 35 years’ experience in architecture as a practice principal and as a designer and manager of projects, including high-profile major buildings in England and around the world. He runs his own practice, Vickery Hyett Sports Architecture, alongside which he teaches management at the University of Hertfordshire school of architecture.






