Read time: 3 minutes The consultant's scope The architect, in initiating the concept, will require early decisions to be made regarding specialist ...

These Special Conditions have been prepared for use by the builder and the owner, as an alternative form of contract, for situations where:  the bank ...

Read time: 2 minutes A design workshop, or more accurately a design charrette, draws together the architect and the principal members of the design ...

A contingency sum is an amount of money, usually expressed as a percentage, included in the project budget to allow for the unknown or unresolved ...

Most building contracts include provision for prime cost items and provisional sums. A prime cost item is an allowance in the contract for the supply ...

Read time: 3 minutes It is important that the architect informs the client at each stage of its commission and at any time when the architect becomes ...

Read time: 3 minutes The project budget estimate will be influenced by a wide range of factors, some of which are within the architect's control, and ...

Read time: 3 minutes Terms used in the process of estimating project budgets should not be confused with similar terminology used by government or by ...

These Special Conditions have been prepared for use by the builder and the owner, as an alternative form of contract, for situations where:  the bank ...

These Special Conditions have been prepared for use by the builder and the owner, as an alternative form of contract, for situations where:  the bank ...