Projects that involve the alteration of or additions to an existing building or buildings will require a record of the existing conditions to be made ...

Read time: 1 minute Architects are regularly required to provide documentation in trade package form. Architects should consider any additional ...

Read time: 5 minutes An expert witness is a witness with expertise in a particular field of study. The role of lay evidence in legal proceedings is ...

Facilities management has adapted processes developed by other professions and enterprises for its own use. These processes include quality ...

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

'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 ...

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

In this phase, the architect will assess and determine final completion and issue the final certificate. This is granted by the architect typically ...

It is becoming increasingly well understood that there is a widespread problem with building health issues in our modern built environment. Sealed, ...

The building industry – including quantity surveyors, building owners and planning authorities – uses a variety of methods for measuring building ...