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Read time: 8 minutes To enable an architect to monitor the contractor's performance, the contract documents require the contractor to submit a ...
Common risk areas for architects include liability for free advice, partial services, design and documentation without contract administration, ...
Read time: 4 minutes The selection of the architect for a building project is an important first step in the process of realising the project. When ...
The access provisions of Premises Standards 2010 have been incorporated into NCC Volume 1 BCA, effective from 1 May 2011. In all public buildings, ...
The access provisions of Premises Standards 2010 have been incorporated into NCC Volume 1 BCA, effective from 1 May 2011. In all public buildings, ...
Read time: 6 minutes Architectural practices, like any business, are vulnerable to risks associated with being in business and should consider taking ...
Acoustics in office partitioning Architects should be aware that there is often a significant gap between the owner's expectation of a partition ...
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 ...
Every architect's filing system is different and there is no single right way of doing it. There is, however, a plethora of wrong ways. A filing or ...
When asked to design a 'fire bunker', ‘fire-shelter’, ‘fire refuge’, or the like, it is wise to be extremely careful and risk adverse about what you ...