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

Architects are often required to commission the services and fee proposals from geotechnical engineers. As we are not experts in this field it is ...

The following five key principles provide the foundation for the establishment of balanced, equitable and insurable client–architect agreements.

Read time: 17 minutes The specification is a written description of the required quality of the built product and its component elements. It is an ...

Read time: 2 minutes Records and documents are vital components of any project; they are the mechanisms for maintaining traceability of various ...

Read time: 9 minutes In recent years there has been an increase in government- and client-generated contracts that have introduced direct or indirect ...

Read time: 11 minutes An increasing number of large projects are now being delivered under novated agreements – a common method of construction ...

Read time: 4 minutes The architect is generally responsible for preparing the contract documents to fully define the design intent. The architect ...

'Including by reference' is mentioning a standard published document (or part of one) in an agreement or other document. This makes it part of the ...

When the project involves a series of handover stages for separable parts of the building work or some form of staged practical completion, ...