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: 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 ...

Read time: 2 minutes The pre-existing Consult Australia Short Form and Long Form Contracts were replaced with a more ‘consultant friendly’ new ...

'Indoor air quality can be defined as the totality of attributes of indoor air that affect a person’s health and well being' (Department of ...

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 ...

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 Water penetration into buildings continues to be a significant issue for architects and their professional indemnity insurers.

Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is a structured and systematic analysis of the performance of a building measured against specified objectives or ...

On complex and large projects, architects are often engaged as a secondary or subconsultant. For example on major civil or landscape projects with a ...