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Guide letter 3: Advice to client - specialist consultants

Published: 20 December 2011 | Edited: 21 July 2021

Read time: 2 minutes Guide letters provide advice about matters architects should consider when composing letters to the parties involved in ...

Resources

Guide letter 35: Confirmation to client - defects and incomplete work

Published: 21 December 2011 | Edited: 19 May 2022

Read time: 3 minutes Guide letters provide advice about matters architects should consider when composing letters to the parties involved in ...

Practice

Australian Standards

Published: 4 November 2011 | Edited: 1 October 2020

Australian Standards are developed by technical committees through a process of consensus and transparency. Standards Australia forms technical ...

Project

Building contract - execution

Published: 18 May 2023 | Edited: 12 August 2024

Read time: 5 minutes  Once the contractor has been selected the architect must prepare the contract for execution (signing). The owner and the ...

Project

Time records

Published: 27 January 2012 | Edited: 12 October 2023

Read time: 5 minutes In order to calculate project costs, staff costs and charge-out rates, accurate knowledge is required of the way in which time ...

Practice

DDA overview - building access

Published: 25 November 2014

In 1992 the Australian Federal Parliament enacted the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). The DDA is a civil rights law, activated by lodging a ...

Project

As-built documentation

Published: 24 January 2024

Read time: 9 minutes As-built documentation captures the finished state of a project completed in accordance with the contract. It may include ...

Project

Inspections

Published: 18 May 2022 | Edited: 8 November 2023

Read time: 8 minutes Inspection is an area of architects' work that can give rise to a significant number of claims for professional negligence. It ...

Practice

Ethics

Published: 25 November 2015 | Edited: 25 May 2022

Read time: 9 minutes Architects must be able to distinguish between ethical and non-ethical situations, and make ethical decisions based on ...

Project

Contract administration versus supervision

Published: 15 November 2017 | Edited: 16 June 2022

Read time: 6 minutes Supervision of the works performed under a construction contract is generally the responsibility of the head contractor however, ...

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