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Wood products are a staple of the construction sector, and are important in delivering environmentally preferable projects. However the ...

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Environment

Phase change materials – overview

Published: 31 August 2006 | Edited: 30 August 2018

This note was reviewed in August 2018 and retained for legacy. This paper introduces phase change materials (PCMs) as an alternative energy storage ...

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Environment

Residential

Published: 17 December 2018

Exploring climate-responsive design, passive design principles and innovative construction and technologies in new and renovated residential projects ...

Project

Noise from building sites

Published: 30 November 2011

During the process of building, it is common for substantial noise to emanate from the building site. Personnel should be informed about the need to ...

Practice

Ethics

Published: 25 November 2015 | Edited: 25 May 2022

Read time: 9 minutes Architects must be able to distinguish between ethical and non-ethical situations, and make ethical decisions based on ...

Glossary Term

Provisional sum

A sum included in the contract for foreseeable work, which could not be fully described at the date of the contract, because some details were ...

Read time: 4 minutes While there are a number of potential benefits of issuing digital files to consultants, contractors and subcontractors ( ...

Project

Project alliancing

Published: 28 August 2012 | Edited: 21 November 2022

Read time: 5 minutes Alliancing is a project-execution approach, aimed at creating mutually beneficial relationships between all involved parties, to ...

Project

Specialist consultants during design and documentation

Published: 18 January 2012 | Edited: 1 December 2021

Read time: 3 minutes The consultant's scope The architect, in initiating the concept, will require early decisions to be made regarding specialist ...

Project

ABIC Basic Works BW 2018

Published: 13 August 2018

The 2018 revised edition of the Australian Building Industry Contracts (ABIC) Basic Works (BW) commercial contract is provided below. The ABIC BW ...

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