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Contaminated land

Published: 2 October 2017 | Edited: 27 October 2022

Read time: 15 minutes Contaminated land contains substances that may pose a risk to human health or the environment. Owners have a responsibility to ...

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Novation

Published: 13 December 2019 | Edited: 17 August 2023

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

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HIA Tasmanian Residential Building

Published: 8 December 2020

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 ...

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Special Conditions for HIA New Homes: Tasmania

Published: 24 September 2020

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 ...

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Fire safety engineering vs fire services engineering

Published: 31 March 2022

Read time: 7 minutes Fire safety engineering and fire services engineering are not the same discipline. This note explains the difference between ...

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HIA Victorian Alterations, Additions and Renovations

Published: 8 December 2020

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 ...

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Contingency sum

Published: 9 January 2013 | Edited: 28 October 2020

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 ...

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Shop drawings

Published: 18 January 2023

Read time: 5 minutes Shop drawings are ‘drawings prepared for a fabricator to use in a workshop’ (Standards Australia 2020). Common examples of shop ...

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Budget estimates - staging

Published: 24 November 2011 | Edited: 6 October 2021

Read time: 3 minutes It is important that the architect informs the client at each stage of its commission and at any time when the architect becomes ...

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Unconditional guarantees and cash retention

Published: 10 January 2013 | Edited: 20 May 2020

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 ...

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