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Architects engaged as secondary or subconsultants
Published: 8 November 2011 | Edited: 7 February 2020On complex and large projects, architects are often engaged as a secondary or subconsultant. For example on major civil or landscape projects with a ...
Project management - responsibilities, liabilities and fees
Published: 7 December 2011 | Edited: 26 October 2023Read time: 1 minute Responsibilities The responsibility of a project manager extends beyond the construction role of a contractor and the designing ...
Read time: 1 minute The relationship between the project manager, architect, design consultants and the client is critical to the success of ...
The tender process should be undertaken in accordance with the Australian Standard AS4120 Code of Tendering. Adhering to the guidelines within this ...
Guarantees A guarantee is an arrangement involving three parties. One party (the guarantor) promises to be responsible for the obligations which a ...
In practice, you may find that clients or contractors assume that when errors, ambiguities or omissions in the architect’s documentation result in ...
Read time: 1 minute During the course of construction on some projects, it may be necessary to identify mandatory inspections, that is, a point in ...
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: 6 minutes Slip resistance refers to the frictional characteristics of a surface and how it interacts with footwear or bare feet to prevent ...