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Historic architectural blueprint photographed on a drawing board
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/images/concept-drawings.jpgHistoric American Engineering Record · Public domain
Used on Concept design.
Steel and concrete building frame rising on a construction site
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/images/construction-frame.jpgJewish Historical Society of the Upper Midwest · Public domain
Used on Construction.
Close detail of laid brickwork
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/images/brickwork.jpgPachango · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on Materials.
Federation Square SBS building in central Melbourne
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/images/melbourne-street.jpgDonaldytong · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on Cities.
Construction helmets lined up in a site office
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/images/tender-documents.jpgKadeiwonra · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on Practice.
Historic architectural sheet showing a perspective, floor plans and a written construction cost for a Brisbane building
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/images/brief-table.jpgQueensland State Archives · CC BY 4.0
Used on How to write a concept brief a builder can actually price.
Stack of tender documents, a scale rule and a marked-up drawing on a timber table
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/images/tender-review.jpgSafwan Mahmud · CC BY-SA 4.0
Used on How to read a builder's tender without being fooled.
Red steel frame of a mid-rise building under construction, wrapped in yellow safety mesh, with a green tower crane against a blue sky
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/images/structure-choice.jpgSSJF01 · CC0
Norfolk Island pines beside a harbour marina and pedestrian crossing, with apartment towers and a cable-stayed bridge under evening cloud
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/images/precinct.jpgSlyronit · CC BY-SA 4.0
Timber-framed house under construction with roof trusses open to the sky
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/images/build-sequence.jpgBenjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0
Two-storey red-brick terrace with arched verandahs standing beside a taller contemporary apartment building
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/images/planning-house.jpgRosieWylie · CC BY-SA 4.0
Used on From napkin sketch to DA: the Australian concept-to-approval path.
Contract documents, a marked specification and a hard hat on a site office desk
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/images/contract-admin.jpgBill Nicholls / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Used on The superintendent, the contract and who actually decides.
White concrete mixer truck with a red stripe driving along a suburban road, apartment towers in the background
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/images/concrete-pour.jpgLordReco · CC BY-SA 4.0
White two-storey terrace row with black iron-lace verandahs, a low fence and a small front garden on a quiet suburban corner
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/images/missing-middle.jpgCalistemon · CC BY-SA 4.0
Used on Mid-rise missing middle: what councils will actually approve.
Hard hats and drawings on a table at a construction site meeting
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/images/site-meeting.jpgTessa Bury · CC BY 4.0
Used on What a good site meeting looks like.
Printed cost plan, a scale drawing and a calculator on a quantity surveyor's desk
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/images/cost-plan.jpgU.S. National Archives and Records Administration · Public domain
Used on Cost planning that survives first contact with trade prices.
Unfinished two-storey concrete-block house with empty window openings on a suburban corner
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/images/cost-decisions.jpgCano58 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on The first twenty decisions that lock a house's cost.
Wooden picnic tables on a mown grassy park with young trees and a pale path beyond
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/images/reclaimed-timber.jpgGeograph Britain and Ireland · CC BY-SA 2.0
Used on Recycled and reclaimed materials that still pass the NCC.
Arched laneway doorway covered in geometric line graffiti, with a dripping cartoon mural on the door and a lit window above
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/images/laneway.jpgClosedmouth · CC BY-SA 3.0
Scaffold and site sheds around a house under construction
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/images/preliminaries.jpgAlan O'Bright / U.S. National Park Service · Public domain
Used on Why preliminaries eat your budget.
Timber house frame with temporary bracing standing ready for lock-up under a clear sky
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/images/stop-designing.jpgSuperbmust · CC BY-SA 3.0
Thick pale masonry fortress walls meeting at a corner, with a grassed courtyard and an arched passage below
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/images/window-wall.jpgSachavir_BR · CC BY-SA 2.0
Paved civic plaza with overhead string lights, young trees and faceted contemporary buildings under a clear blue sky
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/images/public-realm.jpgDonaldytong · CC BY-SA 3.0
White and blue painted warehouse facade with a roller door and the street number 201 on a quiet suburban street
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/images/adaptive-reuse.jpgMuzzawb · CC BY-SA 3.0
Exposed timber framing and brickwork in a house under renovation
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/images/renovation-structure.jpgGeograph / listed building photograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Used on Working with existing structures: the renovation reality.
Close-up of weathered grey hardwood boards with vertical grain, fine checks and a small knot
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/images/hardwood.jpgTitus Tscharntke · Public domain
Used on Australian hardwoods: specification without the romance.
Clipboard with a defects list in the hallway of a newly finished house
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/images/defects.jpgBoyana.kjfg · CC BY 4.0
White weatherboard Queenslander with a corrugated-iron roof, verandah and picket fence, flanked by two palm trees
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/images/climate-house.jpgKgbo · CC BY-SA 4.0
Attached townhouses with garage-dominated facades facing a wide asphalt court, a fire hydrant and a mailbox at the kerb
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/images/infill.jpgAplomado · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on Density done with dignity: suburban infill that still reads as a street.
Wet clay excavation on a residential building site
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/images/clay-site.jpgCano58 · CC BY-SA 3.0
Used on Wet weather, clay soils and the Melbourne build calendar.
External stair and gutter line on a completed house, showing the access a future tradesperson will need
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/images/maintenance.jpgPookieFugglestein · CC0
Melbourne Federation Square sandstone facade
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/images/og-default.jpgSeo75 · CC BY 2.5
Used on Default social card.
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