Architects are often required to commission the services and fee proposals from geotechnical engineers. As we are not experts in this field it is ...

When the project involves a series of handover stages for separable parts of the building work or some form of staged practical completion, ...

Read time: 1 minute During the course of construction on some projects, it may be necessary to identify mandatory inspections, that is, a point in ...

With the development of digital technology and the availability of the internet, architects and their specialist consultants can satisfy themselves ...

Read time: 6 minutes The clerk of works is a full-time inspector of the works on behalf of the owner but exercises no executive authority and is ...

The function of the architect administering a contract can be gleaned from the building contract and also from the architect's conditions of ...

Read time: 1 minute Latent conditions are physical conditions on, underlying or adjacent to the site that could not be identified by reasonable ...

Under most standard-form building contracts the contractor receives regular payment for the work as it progresses. Progress certificates are issued ...

Read time: 4 minutes During construction the contractor may propose substituting materials and products specified in the contract documents. The ...

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a structured and systematic analysis of the performance of a building measured against specified objectives or ...