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Liability, the obligation to compensate someone else for loss or damage, is a major concern for architects. The main types of architects' liability ...
Regenerative development through LENSES with a case study of Seacombe West
Published: 30 November 2016 | Edited: 3 August 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in August 2018. Green building and sustainable development efforts are helping to reduce negative ...
Read time: 11 minutes National workplace health and safety legislation imposes a duty on you when designing, to do all that is reasonably practicable ...
How data collection can help in understanding buildings in operation
Published: 31 August 2005Regular data collection of a building's energy and water use provides building owners/operators with a real understanding and insight into the actual ...
Applying expert opinion to domestic building energy assessment
Published: 31 May 2007 | Edited: 20 September 2018This note was reviewed and retained for legacy in September 2018. This note considers expert judgement as one of several stated assessing methods ...
Prime cost items and provisional sums
Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 14 September 2020Most building contracts include provision for prime cost items and provisional sums. A prime cost item is an allowance in the contract for the supply ...
Lend Lease's approach to addressing sustainability in new Greenfields urban communities
Published: 30 November 2005Lend Lease is the largest developer of urban communities in Australia, operating in nine major population centres, with over twenty projects ranging ...
Pemberton house, Hobart – implementing thermal design principles for housing in a cool temperate climate
Published: 31 May 2008This case study looks at the passive heating design principles adopted in a Tasmanian House, discusses the designers consideration of the interplay ...
The climate-adaptive vernacular architecture of Asia-Pacific
Published: 31 May 2011 | Edited: 30 November 2018This note was reviewed and approved for currency in November 2018. This note is based on research undertaken as part of a Churchill Fellowship, which ...
Beyond carbon neutrality: strategies for reductive and restorative sustainability
Published: 30 September 2010David Baggs looks at the role of the built environment in our un-sustainability and explores the full spectrum of strategies and solutions as to how ...