Read time: 6 minutes This note is about errors, ambiguities or omissions which may occur from time to time and need to be rectified. for the purpose ...

The Institute's publication, Guiding Principles for Balanced and Insurable Client/Architect Agreements was first published in 2005 and is intended to ...

Read time: 4 minutes Architects may choose to provide building services to a client or for themselves. However, this often changes the traditional ...

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 ...

Read time: 4 minutes Guaranteed maximum price (GMP) contracts provide an alternative pricing model to the more traditional fixed price (or 'lump sum’ ...

An architect responsible for the administration of a construction contract should be aware of two legal concepts enforced by the courts. The first is ...

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

Read time: 4 minutes In Construction Industry Terminology (Standen, 2000), float is: the measure of predicted free time in a [program] between ...

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: 1 minute Latent conditions are physical conditions on, underlying or adjacent to the site that could not be identified by reasonable ...