Read time: 4 minutes Working near a boundary may pose a myriad of complex legal problems or it may be straightforward. While the resolution of these ...

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

Read time: 9 minutes This note explains the role of a fire safety engineer (fire engineer) at various stages of a project and the value they can add ...

Read time: 2 minutes Water penetration into buildings continues to be a significant issue for architects and their professional indemnity insurers.

Read time: 2 minutes A warranty is the contractual promise that certain things will be done or achieved, expressed in such certain and definite terms ...

Read time: 4 minutes Value management can be an effective technique to assist the architect to identify the critical aspects of a design brief and to ...

Most standard-form building contracts allow the security to be in the form of cash retention or a bank guarantee. Under ABIC contracts, there is a ...

Read time: 1 minute Architects are regularly required to provide documentation in trade package form. Architects should consider any additional ...

Read time: 5 minutes In order to calculate project costs, staff costs and charge-out rates, accurate knowledge is required of the way in which time ...

Read time: 1 minute Sometimes architects enter into forms of engagement that differ from standard Institute Client and Architect Agreements where ...