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Environment

A summary of urban assessment tools for application in Australia

Published: 29 February 2016 | Edited: 28 August 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018.  With increasing world population, urbanization, and climatic changes impacting ...

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Indoor air quality (IAQ)

Published: 26 June 2014 | Edited: 25 May 2020

'Indoor air quality can be defined as the totality of attributes of indoor air that affect a person’s health and well being' (Department of ...

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Queensland Code of conduct

Published: 13 July 2020 | Edited: 6 December 2023

Read time: 8 minutes The Architects Act 2002 (Qld) requires the Board of Architects of Queensland to make a code of practice to provide guidance to ...

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Post-occupancy evaluation (POE)

Published: 27 August 2012 | Edited: 27 March 2017

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

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NSW Code of conduct

Published: 4 March 2020 | Edited: 29 November 2023

Read time: 3 minutes Schedule 2 of the Architects Regulation 2017 under the Architects Act 2003 (New South Wales (NSW)) contains the NSW Architects ...

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Final completion and certificate

Published: 23 January 2020

In this phase, the architect will assess and determine final completion and issue the final certificate. This is granted by the architect typically ...

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Designing for building health

Published: 29 November 2011 | Edited: 14 January 2020

It is becoming increasingly well understood that there is a widespread problem with building health issues in our modern built environment. Sealed, ...

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Measurement of buildings

Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 23 November 2020

The building industry – including quantity surveyors, building owners and planning authorities – uses a variety of methods for measuring building ...

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Electronic data transfer - third-party agreement

Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 29 September 2020

The third-party agreement should address the architect and any other person receiving the documents, including specialist consultants, the contractor ...

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Condensation in Buildings Handbook

Published: 6 August 2019 | Edited: 25 January 2023

Read time: 1 minute This non-mandatory handbook produced by the Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) was updated in 2023 due to new condensation ...

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