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Engagement of contract staff

Published: 3 November 2011 | Edited: 21 October 2021

Read time: 8 minutes It is not uncommon for architects to engage technical and professional staff as contractors rather than as employees. However, ...

Practice

Employee private commissions and liability

Published: 9 June 2009 | Edited: 12 May 2020

It is not unusual for practitioners to work on private commissions while they are employees in practice. This note provides some guidance and warning ...

Practice

Copyright and confidentiality - employees

Published: 8 November 2018 | Edited: 9 October 2024

Read time: 7 minutes Employees of architectural practices often work for several firms in order to gain experience before ultimately starting up ...

Practice

Professional indemnity insurance basics

Published: 28 February 2017 | Edited: 30 November 2022

Read time: 13 minutes  Given the risks posed to architects, the best protection for any professional in the construction industry is still their own ...

Practice

Managing professional indemnity claims

Published: 15 November 2019 | Edited: 16 February 2023

Read time: 3 minutes Normally when a problem arises in a construction project the natural and commercially sensible approach is to try to resolve it.

Project

Consult Australia Consultant Contract

Published: 10 December 2019 | Edited: 13 June 2023

Read time: 2 minutes The pre-existing Consult Australia Short Form and Long Form Contracts were replaced with a more ‘consultant friendly’ new ...

Project

Budget estimates – methods

Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 6 October 2021

Read time: 4 minutes The level of accuracy of a project budget estimate is in part a product of the method of estimating that is applied. Architects ...

Project

Geotechnical reports

Published: 15 December 2011 | Edited: 31 March 2021

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

Project

Staged practical completion

Published: 17 August 2017 | Edited: 22 May 2020

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: 25 minutes The residential building sector is a significant contributor to carbon footprint and climate change. This is primarily due to ...

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