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Increasingly, owners, project managers and developers are asking architects to issue certificates to financial institutions and other regulatory ...
Under the Disability Discrimination Act it is illegal to discriminate against a person on the basis of their hearing/deafness disability. All ...
Read time: 3 minutes A progress payment is a payment under a contract or client-architect agreement for work partly completed. Under a building ...
Read time: 6 minutes The clerk of works is a full-time inspector of the works on behalf of the owner but exercises no executive authority and is ...
Architects engaged as secondary or subconsultants
Published: 8 November 2011 | Edited: 7 February 2020On complex and large projects, architects are often engaged as a secondary or subconsultant. For example on major civil or landscape projects with a ...
The costs of urban sprawl – predicting transport greenhouse gases from urban form parameters
Published: 30 April 2010This is one of three companion papers taken from a study that assesses the comparative costs of urban redevelopment with the costs of greenfield ...
Read time: 7 minutes Preparation of accurate and well-organised construction drawings is one of the most important services provided during the ...
Read time: 3 minutes Risk management is activity directed towards the assessing, mitigating (to an acceptable level) and monitoring of risks. In some ...
Signs that indicate that the contractor may be financially unstable include: submission of a claim followed by a request for payment in a reduced ...
The risk to architects of specifying standards needs to be managed. Proprietary specification systems such as NATSPEC regularly review all standards ...