The Environmental Design Pocketbook - for housing

Levitt Bernstein is joint sponsor of The Environmental Design Pocketbook, written by Sofie Pelsmakers. The book provides practical responses and appropriate solutions for the housing design industry in mitigating and adapting to climate change.
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The Housing Design Handbook: A Guide to Good Practice

The Housing Design Handbook, written by David Levitt, is a primer which provides a firm foundation of practical knowledge and places on record accumulated expertise about the practicalities of housing design and construction.
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HCA Research: Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation (HAPPI)

HAPPI - Housing our Ageing Population: Panel for Innovation – was commissioned by the Homes and Communities Agency on behalf of Communities and Local Government and the Department of Health to consider how best to address the challenge of providing homes that meet the needs and aspirations of the older people of the future.
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Recommendations for living at Superdensity

Working in collaboration with three other architectural practices (HTA, PRP and PTE Architects), Levitt Bernstein prepared a design guide tackling the challenges of living at densities higher than 150 dwellings per hectare.
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Higher Density Housing for Families: A Design and Specification Guide

A guide developed by Helen Cope and Levitt Bernstein, with cost advisors Walker Management.
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Delivering Successful Higher Density Housing: a toolkit

Developed by Helen Cope for East Thames Housing Group to draw together research and good practice in the delivery of higher density housing, aimed at schemes over 70 dwellings per hectare.
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Higher Density Design for quality and low maintenance; a good practice guide

A report commissioned by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive (NIHE) from Design for Homes and Levitt Bernstein to give best practice guidance, based on recent experience in Britain.
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The Professionals' Choice: 'The Future of the Built Environment Professions'

Levitt Bernstein’s Andy Jobling contributed the chapter entitled: ‘Regulatory Scenario’ in this book which considers ways in which construction professionals’ duties might evolve.
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Standards and Quality in Development: a good practice guide

Levitt Bernstein was an advisor to the joint National Housing Federation/Joseph Rowntree Trust panel which produced the first version of this significant document for affordable housing.
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Specification Clauses for Rehabilitation and Conversion Work

Widely referenced resource for residential refurbishment, written by Levitt Bernstein and Anthony Richardson & Partners.
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Supervisor’s Guide to Rehabilitation and Conversion

Written solely by Levitt Bernstein as a guide for architects going on site, particularly on refurbishment projects, telling them what they should be looking out for in terms of workmanship and materials.
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