Architects are often required to commission the services and fee proposals from geotechnical engineers. As we are not experts in this field it is ...

When the project involves a series of handover stages for separable parts of the building work or some form of staged practical completion, ...

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 ...

Read time: 2 minutes The pre-existing Consult Australia Short Form and Long Form Contracts were replaced with a more ‘consultant friendly’ new ...

'Indoor air quality can be defined as the totality of attributes of indoor air that affect a person’s health and well being' (Department of ...

Read time: 6 minutes Slip resistance refers to the frictional characteristics of a surface and how it interacts with footwear or bare feet to prevent ...

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a structured and systematic analysis of the performance of a building measured against specified objectives or ...

Read time: 2 minutes Water penetration into buildings continues to be a significant issue for architects and their professional indemnity insurers.