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Read time: 25 minutes The residential building sector is a significant contributor to carbon footprint and climate change. This is primarily due to ...
Professional indemnity insurance basics
Published: 28 February 2017 | Edited: 30 November 2022Read time: 13 minutes Given the risks posed to architects, the best protection for any professional in the construction industry is still their own ...
Read time: 8 minutes It is not uncommon for architects to engage technical and professional staff as contractors rather than as employees. However, ...
It is not unusual for practitioners to work on private commissions while they are employees in practice. This note provides some guidance and warning ...
Employees of architectural practices often work for several firms in order to gain experience before ultimately starting up their own practice. A ...
Managing professional indemnity claims
Published: 15 November 2019 | Edited: 16 February 2023Read time: 3 minutes Normally when a problem arises in a construction project the natural and commercially sensible approach is to try to resolve it.
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 ...