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 ...

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

The third-party agreement should address the architect and any other person receiving the documents, including specialist consultants, the contractor ...

Read time: 5 minutes The ABIC Simple Works Housing Contract (ABIC SW H Contract), in use in each state and territory in Australia (refer Acumen note ...

Read time: 2 minutes About the ABCB The Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB) is a joint initiative of the Commonwealth and state and territory ...

Understanding the implications and components of a Certificate of Title is critical to your ability to produce an appropriate design solution. When ...

Read time: 3 minutes For those architects requested by their clients to prepare estimates of the costs of replacing buildings it is necessary to have ...

Signs that indicate that the contractor may be financially unstable include: submission of a claim followed by a request for payment in a reduced ...

Read time: 8 minutes As part of the building permit/consent process, when carrying out building work on or near title boundaries certain state and ...