RIBA Set of Approved Documents

[atech]

I'm looking to get a complete set of approved documents however from looking on the RIBA bookshop the documents appear to be different editions to those on the Planning Portal.
E.g. Part A on the Planning Portal was republished to incorporate the 2010 amendments but on RIBA's site it only appears to be the 2006 publication. Then others like Part M & P are called 2013 editions although the planning portal only has 2010 publications.

Where can I order the most recent set of publications and with the upcoming changes to some Parts in April this year should I hold off a few months until this update has been published? And if so when are they expected to come out?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Why would you want to order a hard copy's when you can just print off the PDF copy available for free?

 

[atech]

Well I'm reckoning the amount of paper, toner, folders and time required would come to more than £200 so it would be cheaper to just order them.

I am currently involved in UK design full time so its not just a case of needing to check a regulation now and again which the online version would be fine for.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I work in a practice of 30+ we don't have any hard copy's just have the PDFs on the system. You know you can just save them to your hard drive.

 

[atech]

Really, No way

That's what I've been doing but I need a set which I can just grab and take into a meeting or into a colleague to discuss rather than carrying laptops or hard drives around and then loading them up and having to scroll through.
A hard copy would just be simpler and I could put tabs on the pages frequently used etc.

So anyway back to my question, do you know what the story is with the RIBA bookshops documents and/or when the next publications are due out?

 

[jeds]

That explains why every architect I've ever come across is working on regs from 10 years ago. Forget the RIBA - try the RICS Bookshop. Proper up to date books.

http://www.rics.org/uk/shop/search-results/?s=&q=document a&so=rel&p=0

 

[kingandy2nd]

Really, No way

That's what I've been doing but I need a set which I can just grab and take into a meeting or into a colleague to discuss rather than carrying laptops or hard drives around and then loading them up and having to scroll through.
A hard copy would just be simpler and I could put tabs on the pages frequently used etc.

So anyway back to my question, do you know what the story is with the RIBA bookshops documents and/or when the next publications are due out?

Buy an iPad or other table and save them all on there.

 

[atech]

Thanks for the suggestion Jeds,

RICS seems to have the 2013 publications of a number of them alright but doesn't seem to have the Part L's yet.
They seem to be missing a few too and don't seem to have any discount for the complete set like RIBA had.

Oh well, maybe Freddy & Andy are right and I should just use the PDF's cos it seems no one must be buying hardcopies these days.

 

[jeds]

It was slightly tongue in cheek. I do the same - i.e. just use pdfs as and when. I used to buy hard copies but they don't tend to be current for long so you're constantly replacing one or another. I find I only usually refer to a section or two at any time anyway so you can mostly get away with printing off just what you need.

 

[^woody^]

All my technical documents are stored in online storage and I access them from a tablet. Any document, accessible anywhere any time.

Plus it's all searchable, and the readers I use allow for markups and highlighting.

 

[southwesterly]

you can get them through The Planning Portal