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Building Contract Types

DesignScape Architects

Building Contract Types Building contracts can be complex. Well, a slightly easier ride… In many ways choosing the ideal contract will depend on the size of the job. But first, let’s understand firstly what a contract is. With any contract, there are flows of Obligations and Rights.

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LinkedIn Leaders: 6 Influential “Architect Whisperers” Join the A+Awards Jury

Architizer

In one of the most crowded, competitive industries imaginable, how can even the most skilled architects hope to have their projects seen, their story told, or their voice heard? She is widely published, wrote a monthly column for Contract magazine for over three years, and is now a frequent contributor to Architect Magazine.

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Harnessing Solar Incentives For Sustainable Residential Projects 

The Architecture Designs

A developer designing a residential solar project in Arizona collaborates with engineers and architects to optimize the system layout, considering the site’s solar access, roof orientation, and potential shading from surrounding structures. Prioritize energy efficiency and compliance with incentive program requirements.

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On not going pens down

Brandon Donnelly

It used to be the case, when I first started working on condominium projects back in 2007 or so, that you would go pens down on your design drawings while you launched pre-sales and worked toward meeting your construction financing requirements. So what you want to do is not go pens down. Keep going on drawings. tendering).

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The "miracle" of Taiwan's luxury social housing

Deezen

"Prior to 2010, Taiwan's housing policies primarily focused on providing loans to encourage home ownership, neglecting the importance of the rental market and lacking the construction of social housing," said Yang-Kae Peng, an architect and secretary general of Taiwan's Social Housing Advocacy Consortium.

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The New Brixen Public Library by Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli

aasarchitecture

The project consists of the construction of a unitary complex which includes a new building and the restorantion and annexation of the existing buildings of the Ex Finance, a portion of the Ex Court (the first two levels) and of the Ex Prison (part of the ground floor and first floor). Photo © Marco Cappelletti.

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BCIS construction industry predictions for 2023

e-architect

Housing investment will also be affected by the availability of mortgage finance, falling prices (the Office of Budget Responsibility are expecting a fall of 9%), and the end of the Help to Buy scheme. The capacity to deliver contracts could also be affected by weakened balance sheets with rising levels of insolvency.