Duplex House Planning With Multiple Site Issues Easements & Overlays as Far as the Eye Can See Because the nature of our Free Custom Home Design Service, we are routinely confronted with difficult home design projects. This one was challenging, even by the standards we have become accustomed to. The brief was to create a duplex home of […]
Climate Change & Changing Regulations For a while now some of us have felt the effects of climate change assumptions have had on minimum floor level assessments on flood affected land. Since 2013, councils have included an assumption that sea levels will rise by .8M over the next 100 years. The requirement was put in […]
The Qld Government has released the draft of the Queensland Building & Construction Commission and other Legislation Amendments Bill 2014 which will repeal the Domestic Building Contracts Act 2000 (Qld) (DBC Act). Domestic Building Work The act applies to any domestic building work which is defined as: The erection and construction of detached buildings Renovation, […]