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Provisional periods for delay

Published: 6 December 2011 | Edited: 22 May 2020

One way of anticipating and identifying up-front potential delays and avoiding undue surprises of costs after clients have made a financial ...

Environment

The Prasad house

Published: 30 September 2011 | Edited: 21 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. The design of the Prasad house renovation evolved from a fusion of the owners’ ...

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Straw bale construction

Published: 30 November 2003 | Edited: 4 September 2018

This note was reviewed in September 2018 and retained for legacy. This note, originally published in November 1996, was reviewed by Harry Partridge ...

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Concrete is the most widely used building material in the world with many architectural and engineering benefits, but also with a high capacity to ...

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Measuring site biodiversity for sustainable development

Published: 31 May 2004

Biodiversity, the variety of life on earth, is required for the health of the natural environment and the continuation of the human species.  Though ...

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Project

ABIC contracts – Queensland

Published: 20 August 2018

The 2018 revised editions of the Australian Building Industry Contracts (ABIC) Major Works (MW), Simple Works (SW) commercial and domestic are ...

Project

Negotiated contracts

Published: 5 August 2015 | Edited: 3 August 2020

Tender by negotiation is a process whereby the architect, on behalf of the client, negotiates a price with a preferred contractor rather than calling ...

Environment

Materials

Published: 11 April 2023 | Edited: 16 January 2024

Read time: 4 minutes The careful selection of building materials and products and their use in design has the potential to reduce life-cycle ...

Practice

Publicity management

Published: 29 August 2018 | Edited: 27 July 2023

Read time: 5 minutes Publicity tells the world you are newsworthy. Being deemed worthy of coverage in traditional media outlets (like newspapers, ...

Environment

Persuasive design and building user engagement

Published: 28 February 2011 | Edited: 16 November 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. To perform well, buildings require not only good design and construction but also ...

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