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Building

House Build Cost Savings: Design for Roofline

9 March 2010
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Congratulations – you’ve decided to build your dream home!
You review your architect’s concept floorplan, “House A” (above), and really like it, but decide it would be even better if you moved a wall or two to make it look like “House B“.
Since they both have the same floor area, there won’t be any difference in [...]

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Construction tender evaluation

18 December 2009
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So your project has finally completed the rigorous design & planning permit process and your architect has sent your Building Permit Documentation Package out to tender.
The only problem is you’ve received back three wildly differing tender responses from separate builders.
How can one builder’s tender offer come in at almost twice as much as the other [...]

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Home Building Cost: The 3 critical factors

1 September 2009
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How much would it cost to build my home?”
This is possibly the number one question builders get asked. Although there are several ways this question can be answered, there are 3 critical underlying factors that any answer must depend on.

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The new Victorian Bushfire Attack Levels (BALs)

10 August 2009
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The 2009 bushfires that spread through Kinglake and surrounding townships, causing massive loss of life and property, has been said to be Australia’s worst ever natural disaster.  In response to this tragedy, in March Victoria adopted a new Australian Standard AS 3959-2009. The aim of this new standard is to improve the ability of buildings [...]

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