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Environment

Timber use in residential construction and demolition

Published: 30 November 2008

Residential construction accounts for about 70 per cent of the total volume of sawn timber consumed in Australia, with the majority of the wood used ...

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Environment

Embodied carbon in buildings

Published: 5 July 2023

Read time: 25 minutes There has been a tendency to focus on energy efficiency measures when reducing building-related greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions ...

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Environment

Life cycle energy analysis

Published: 31 March 2012 | Edited: 2 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. Life cycle energy analysis (LCEA) is a method of assessing both the operational ...

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Environment

Sustainable metropolitan transport – design strategies

Published: 31 August 2006

This note outlines how architects can use the design of buildings to help create sustainable transport systems and a more vibrant public domain.

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Project

Architects engaged as secondary or subconsultants

Published: 8 November 2011 | Edited: 7 February 2020

On complex and large projects, architects are often engaged as a secondary or subconsultant. For example on major civil or landscape projects with a ...

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 ...

Project

Substitutions

Published: 8 April 2020 | Edited: 22 May 2024

Read time: 7 minutes During construction, the contractor may propose substituting materials and products specified in the contract documents. Caution ...

Practice

Meetings

Published: 14 November 2011 | Edited: 17 June 2020

A significant part of an architect’s working day is spent in preparation for, or attendance at, meetings. Most meetings are project meetings (that is ...

Practice

Fee disputes

Published: 23 September 2021

Read time: 7 minutes In most jurisdictions a written client-architect agreement is compulsory and this is the simplest method of minimising fee ...

Environment

Green roofs for energy efficiency – a simulation study in Australian climates

Published: 30 November 2016 | Edited: 21 August 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018.  This paper describes how green roofs influence the energy performance of a ...

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