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Ethics
Conduct toward other architects
Collaborations with other architects
Online ethics
Pro bono work
The Australian Institute of Architects' Code of Conduct
The Victorian ‘Architects Code of Professional Conduct’
Fees
Low fees - implication for practices
Low fees - implications for the building industry
Profit and profitability
Profit - relevant definitions
Profitability
Security for payment of fees
Human resources
A+ Member human resources service
Casual or permanent? – an age old issue
Common leave entitlements
Coping with the performance management process
Crackdown on bullying – new law
Employment agreements
Employees' private jobs and liability
Employment of staff under contract
'Contract' employment - implications
Contract staff and professional indemnity insurance
Flexible working arrangements
Gender equity
Industrial relations
National Employment Standards
Long service leave entitlements
Long service leave entitlements – Australian Capital Territory
Long service leave entitlements – New South Wales
Long service leave entitlements – Queensland
Long service leave entitlements – South Australia
Long service leave entitlements – Tasmania
Long service leave entitlements – Victoria
Long service leave entitlements – Western Australia
Long term illness or injury absences
Managing people
Staff performance
Teamwork
Managing teams
Team behaviour
Time management
Minimum wages and award rates
Pay increases for employees
Professional development
Recruitment
Induction of staff
Interviewing
Social functions in the business world
Social media and the workplace
Student employment
Graduates - practical experience
Work experience for school students
Transfer of business – industrial relations implications
Work experience and internships
Workplace issues
Email policy
Keeping time records
Superannuation
Superannuation and the sole practitioner
Workplace Health and Safety (WHS)
Duties of employees
Duties of employers
Indigenous issues in practice
Legislation
Architects acts
Copyright
Architects and copyright
Copyright and confidentiality - employee's duty
Employment agreements - sample clauses
The value of copyright in designs
Copyright and architectural photography
DDA - Disability Discrimination Act
DDA – Existing Buildings not undergoing building work
DDA - the Premises Standards and building certification
DDA - the Premises Standards, BCA and alternative solutions
DDA overview - building access
Goods and services tax (GST)
GST - administration
GST - apportionment for private use
GST - barter transactions
GST - changes to administration
GST - definitions
GST - disposal of assets
GST - documentation
GST - internal administration controls
GST - joint ventures
GST - margin scheme
GST - processing and reporting transactions
GST - reimbursing employees
GST - retainers, fees and charges
GST - reviewing internal administration
GST - update
Moral rights
Client commissions and moral rights
Consent to infringement of moral rights
Moral rights FAQs
Moral rights guide and template letters
Waivers of moral rights and indemnities
Occupational health and safety
Guide to best practice for safer construction
Induction for construction work
OHS - architect as designer
OHS - architect as employee
OHS - architect as employer
OHS legislation
OHS and design
OHS concepts and principles
Victoria: OHS Act section 28
OHS overview
OHS Safe Design Requirements (Victoria)
The model WHS Acts and Regulations
Privacy Act
Privacy legislation - coverage and exemptions
Security of payment
Security of payment - NSW
Adjudication of disputes - NSW
Security of payment - NT
Adjudication of disputes - NT
Security of payment - Queensland
Adjudication of disputes - Queensland
Security of payment - SA
Adjudication of disputes - SA
Security of payment - Tasmania
Adjudication of disputes – Tasmania
Security of payment - Victoria
Adjudication of disputes - Victoria
Security of payment - WA
Adjudication of disputes - WA
The effect on architects
Taxation Administration Act
Marketing and promotions
Architectural competitions
Risks of free design services
Brand and corporate identity
Promotion via advertising
Promotion via correspondence
Promotion via eMarketing
Promotion via events
Promotion via proposals and tenders
Promotion via publications and technical papers
Promotion via websites
Quality Based Selection - why use?
Negotiation and dispute resolution
Fee disputes
Commercial dispute resolution
Evidence and court procedure
Office administration
Archiving
Document retention
Electronic document management
Records - storage and conservation
Cloud computing
Communications
Email disclaimers
Report writing
Meetings
Chairing meetings
Conduct of meetings
Filing systems
Quality management
Australian standards
Library of standards
Standards - suggested key standards
Standards - retention
Standards - risk management
Status of standards
Using standards
Office manuals
Quality control for working drawings
Quality control in preparing specifications and schedules
Quality-control checklist
Risk management and insurances
Advice
Architects' liability
Architects standard of care
Asbestos
Asbestos-containing materials
Professional indemnity insurance cover and asbestos
Builders' liability to subsequent purchasers
Common risks for architects
Damages
Directors insurance
Due diligence reporting
Duty to correct and warn
Duty to disclose liability
General practice insurance
Handing over project files
Insurance cover and WHS obligations
Insurances
Liability for negligence
Limitation of liability
Professional indemnity insurance for architects
Gaps in cover
Managing professional indemnity claims
Professional indemnity insurance basics
Project management services – liability for
Proportionate liability
Public liability
Project
Agreements
Agreements - principles of
Agreements for office and retail tenancy work
Commissioning tenancy works
Architect–Specialist Consultant Agreement (ASCA) 2017
Client and architect agreements
AS 4122
Client and Architect Agreement 2009 (CAA 2009)
Bushfire or pro bono work — special conditions CAA 2009
Client and Architect Agreement 2009 guide letters
CAA 2009 schedules and signing page
Collateral warranties
Special conditions for pro bono work
Warranties in client and architect agreements
Client-generated agreements
Fitness for purpose
Fitness for purpose - Australian Consumer Law
Fitness for purpose - design and documentation
Fitness for purpose - proactive strategies
Guiding principles for balanced and insurable client/architect agreements
Legal person
Novation
Deed of novation
Novation - consultant agreement
Novation - other issues
Novation - purpose
Novation deeds - insurable
Novation process
Personal contracts
Brief
Brief - contents
Accommodation schedule
Administration and quality assurance
Program and budget
The briefing team
Building contracts
ABIC contracts
ABIC contracts – Australian Capital Territory
ABIC contracts – New South Wales
ABIC contracts – Northern Territory
ABIC contracts – Queensland
ABIC contracts – South Australia
ABIC contracts – Tasmania
ABIC contracts – Victoria
ABIC contracts – Western Australia
ABIC Basic Works BW 2018
ABIC Commercial Cost Plus CP-2014 C
ABIC Early Works Contract EW-1 2003
ABIC contract insurance
ABIC staged payment schedules (for residential projects)
ABIC template forms
ABIC BW 2002 Proforma
ABIC MW Proforma
ABIC SW Proforma
Pre-2018 ABIC contracts
ABIC MW-2008 Australian Capital Territory
ABIC MW-2008 H Australian Capital Territory
ABIC SW-2008 Australian Capital Territory
ABIC SW-2008 H Australian Capital Territory
ABIC contract schedules – New South Wales
ABIC MW-2008 New South Wales
ABIC MW-2008 H New South Wales
ABIC SW-2008 New South Wales
ABIC SW-2008 H New South Wales
ABIC MW-2008 Northern Territory
ABIC MW-2008 H Northern Territory
ABIC SW-2008 Northern Territory
ABIC SW-2008 H Northern Territory
ABIC contract schedules – Queensland
ABIC MW-2011 C Queensland
ABIC MW-2011 H Queensland
ABIC SW-2011 C Queensland
ABIC SW-2011 H Queensland
ABIC contract schedules – South Australia
ABIC MW-2008 South Australia
ABIC MW-2008 H South Australia
ABIC SW-2008 South Australia
ABIC SW-2008 H South Australia
ABIC contract schedules – Tasmania
ABIC MW-2008 Tasmania
ABIC MW-2008 H Tasmania
ABIC SW-2008 Tasmania
ABIC SW-2008 H Tasmania
ABIC MW-2008 Victoria
ABIC MW-2008 H Victoria
ABIC SW-2008 Victoria
ABIC SW-2008 H Victoria
ABIC contract schedules – Western Australia
ABIC MW-2008 Western Australia
ABIC MW-2008 H Western Australia
ABIC SW-2008 Western Australia
ABIC SW-2008 H Western Australia
ABIC Basic Works BW-1 2002
ABIC BW-1 Adjustment to the contract
ABIC BW-1 Building the works
ABIC BW-1 Tendering
Australian Standards contracts
Contractual liability
Cost-plus contracts
Core architectural services
Concept design
BIM – Building information modelling
Design
Design workshops (charrette)
Housing - building for life
Office fit-out projects
Office fit-out - contract and construction issues
Pre-design
Adverse possession
Boundaries
Contaminated land
Contaminated land - choosing a specialist consultant
Contaminated land - notifiable activities
Contaminated land - preparation of contract documents
Filled land - methane
Heritage buildings
Site surveys
Survey types
Sub-soil conditions
Geotechnical reports
Sub-soil conditions - provisions in contract documents
Termite management
Construction documentation
Construction drawings
Guarantees and warranties
Liability for manufactured products
Referencing standard documents
Scope of services variation
Shop drawings
Specification writing
Specifying fail-safe for automatic sliding doors
Contract administration
Building contract - execution
Building contract - selection
Building contract insurances
Certificates
Clerk of works
Contract administration versus supervision
Contract preparation
Contractor's role in construction
Requests for information
Defects
Latent conditions
Mandatory inspections
Practical completion
Extensions of time
Provisional periods for delay
Provisional periods of delay - precautions
Staged practical completion
Prevention Principle
Progress payments
Remote sites - contract administration
Safety during construction
OHS - the architect's role in construction
OHS site induction
Security
Security of payment in contracts
Surety bonds
Surety bonds - glossary of terms
Unconditional guarantees and cash retention
Security - amount of
Security - drawing on
Security - release of
Substitutions
Contractor selection
Negotiated contracts
Tenders - calling
Tenders - receiving and selecting
Design development
Building health
Building health - relevance to architects
Building health - what is it?
Designing for building health
Designing healthy buildings
Indoor air quality
Building life cycle processes
Health of occupants
HVAC design
Legionnaires’ disease
Materials
Brickwork
Concrete cancer and precast concrete
Floor tiles
Liability for dangerous premises
Glass balustrades
Medium-density fibre board
Paint
Timber flooring
Wall tiles
Non-complying building products
Protection of openable windows
Slip resistance
Remediation of in-situ floors
Slip resistance - evaluation
Slip resistance - testing
Sound rating
Waterproofing
Partial core services
Agreements that do not include full architectural services
Certificates - issuing to third parties
Design and documentation only
Design services only
Partial contract administration
Withdrawal of licence
Architects engaged as secondary or subconsultants
Conditions of engagement - partial contract administration
Conditions of engagement for architects as secondary or subconsultants
Partial services - fees
Regulatory requirements
Australian Building and Construction Commission
ABCC National Code and Implementation Guidelines
Australian Building Codes Board (ABCB)
Building Act (Tasmania) certification
Certificates of title
Condensation in Buildings Handbook
National Construction Code (NCC)
National Construction Code (NCC) and energy efficiency
National Construction Code (NCC) certification
Noise from building sites
Occupational health and safety - safe design
Statutory approvals
Work, Health and Safety Act 2011 implementation
Workplace health and safety - Queensland
Other architectural services
Architects working with a builder-developer
Architect working as a builder-developer
Building work - what is it?
Ethical ways to be an architect-builder
Risks of being an architect-builder
Expert witness
Giving expert evidence
Preparing an expert report
Facilities management
Illustration
Inspections
Inspection checklists
Master planning
Post-occupancy evaluation (POE)
Project feasibility
Cash flow checklist
Depreciation allowance
Feasibility study
Lifecycle cost analysis
Value management
Project management and project managers
Project management - planning, programming and administration
Project management - responsibilities, liabilities and fees
Project management - scope of services
Project manager - architects working as
Project manager - working with
Record documentation
Trade package documentation
Procurement
Architects working together
Design and construct
Design and construct - advantages and disadvantages
Guaranteed maximum price
Fast-tracked projects
Fast-tracked projects - fees
Fast-tracked projects - implications
Fast-tracked projects - risks for architects
Financing of projects
Procurement - alternative methods
Procurement - checklist for non-traditional methods
Procurement - critical considerations
Procurement options - checklist
Project alliancing
Alliancing - recent examples
Project bid
Architect selection and commissions
Student commissions
Fee calculation
Charge-out rate
Charging unrealistic fees
Profit
Salaries and overheads
Time records
Specialist consultants
Specialist consultants - employing
Specialist consultants - engagement
Specialist consultants - selection
Using AS 4121
Specialist consultants - terms of engagement
Architect's liability for specialist consultants
Consult Australia agreements
Specialist consultants - payment
Specialist consultants - types
Specialist consultants after practical completion
Specialist consultants during construction
Specialist consultants prior to construction
Project control
Cost control
Contingency sum
Cost plan - preparation
Depreciation
Estimates
Accuracy of estimates
Estimates - informing the client
Estimating terminology
Measurement and calculation
Methods of estimating
Preparation of estimates
Staging of estimates
Insolvent contractor
Managing the budget
Measurement of buildings
Prime cost items and provisional sums
Replacement costs
Electronic data transfer
Electronic data transfer - client and architect agreement
Electronic data transfer - third-party agreement
Project records
Checklist of project records
Electronic communications
Records disposal
Project time management
Delays in the supply of materials
Float - who should own?
Managing time during construction
Critical path programming
Expediting the works
Time provisions in standard contracts
Program as a contract document
Time allowances - delays in design and documentation
Time management - performance warranties
Resources
Access design guide
Accessible entry
Access to heritage sites
Design considerations - stairs and ramps
Design for hearing impairment
Design for vision impairment
External stairs and ramps
Fit-out
Accessible auditorium / lecture room
Accessible change cubicle
Accessible fitting cubicle
Accessible parenting / baby change room
Accessible reception counter
Accessible tea point
Accessible ticket office
Accessible utility room
Accessible waiting room
Assisted change room
Drinking fountains and water filling points
Visual emergency warning systems
Client information notes
Client note: Architects' fees
Client note: Contingency sums
Client note: Copyright in architecture
Client note: Fee tendering
Client note: Insurance for work to existing buildings
Client note: Managing your project costs
Client note: Opening up and testing the works
Client note: Practical completion and the final certificate
Client note: Progress payments during construction
Client note: Selecting an architect
Client note: The independent role of the project manager
Client note: Variations to scope of work
Client note: What are an architect's moral rights?
Client note: Your brief to your architect
Construction industry legal comment
Continuing professional development
Environment Design Guide
Free legal reference service (FLRS)
Guide letters
Guide letter 1: Advice to client - conditions of engagement
Guide letter 2: Confirmation to client
Guide letter 3: Advice to client - specialist consultants
Guide letter 4: Request to specialist consultants
Guide letter 5: Advice to client
Guide letter 6: Request to client for confirmation
Guide letter 7: Confirmation - appointment of consultant
Guide letter 8: Briefing of specialist consultant
Guide letter 9: Recommendation to client - additional fees
Guide letter 10: Site - request to client for information
Guide letter 11: Advice to client - architects' fees due
Guide letter 12: Secondary consultants' fee accounts
Guide letter 13: Advice to client on authority approval
Guide letter 14: Advice to client at completion of stage
Guide level 15: Advice to client - pre-contract progress
Guide letter 16: Advice to client on implications of changes
Guide letter 17: Recommendation to client - clerk of works
Guide letter 18: Advice to client - building contract
Guide letter 19: Confirmation to client - contract
Guide letter 20: Pre-tender information
Guide letter 21: Confirmation to client - tender details
Guide letter 22: Recommendation to client - tender report
Guide letter 23: Successful tenderer - letter of acceptance
Guide letter 24: Successful tenderer
Guide letter 25: Unsuccessful tenderers - advice
Guide letter 26: Insurance - request to contractor
Guide letter 27: Clerk of works � employment advice
Guide letter 28: Advice to client - execution of contract
Guide letter 29: Recommendation to client - variations
Guide letter 30: Advice to client - expenditure
Guide letter 31: Advice to client - building progress
Guide letter 32: Advice to client - contractor's breach
Guide level 33: Advice to client - works nearing completion
Guide letter 34: Advice to contractor - practical completion
Guide letter 35: Confirmation to client - defects
Guide level 36: Advice to contractor - defects
Guide letter 37: Advice to client - final certificate
Guide letter 38: Completion - thanking contractor
Notepacks
Building procurement
Starting a practice