This milestone 30th edition of the Watts Pocket Handbook has had a thorough overhaul and renews its commitment to share industry knowledge by providing technical and legal information across a comprehensive spread of property and construction topics.

The Handbook provides specialist information and guidance on a vast selection of related subjects including:

• Environmental and sustainability issues;
• Contracts and procurement;
• Design and construction;
• Health and safety;
• Regulations and standards;
• Legal issues and insurance;
• Facilities management;
• Materials and defects; and
• Technology, innovation and the future.

Watts Pocket Handbook remains the must-have reference book for professionals and students engaged in construction, building surveying, services engineering, architecture, project management, facilities management, quantity surveying, property development and much more.

Trevor Rushton is a Chartered Building Surveyor and Chartered Building Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Fellow of the Chartered Association of Building Engineers. He qualified as a Building Surveyor in 1983.

He has been involved with and the editor of the Watts Pocket Handbook virtually since its inception in 1983. He is the author of Investigating Deleterious and Hazardous Building Materials and Defects in Industrial and Commercial Buildings both published by RICS Books. He has contributed numerous articles to the Built Environment Journal, was involved in the initial development of ISURV and is a regular speaker at RICS conferences and seminars.