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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 ...

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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 ...

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.

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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 ...

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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Environment

Design for eco-services – Part A environmental services

Published: 30 November 2009 | Edited: 5 September 2018

This note was reviewed and approved for currency by the Author in September 2018. Without the virtually free services of nature like clean air and ...

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Certificates of title

Published: 31 August 2015 | Edited: 30 January 2020

Understanding the implications and components of a Certificate of Title is critical to your ability to produce an appropriate design solution. When ...

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Replacement costs

Published: 9 January 2013 | Edited: 2 December 2021

Read time: 3 minutes For those architects requested by their clients to prepare estimates of the costs of replacing buildings it is necessary to have ...

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Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB)

Published: 20 July 2017 | Edited: 7 December 2022

Read time: 2 minutes About the ABCB The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth and state and territory ...

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Insolvent contractor

Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 2 March 2020

Signs that indicate that the contractor may be financially unstable include: submission of a claim followed by a request for payment in a reduced ...

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