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This Practice Note provides guidance for building surveyors for amending a building permit in compliance with the Building Act 1993 and the Building Regulations 2018.

Policy of insurance.

Home warranty insurance.

Home warranty insurance.

Sustainable building design should consider durability, affordability, resource conservation, intra and intergenerational social equity aspects, and stakeholder’s perspective throughout its service life; this research has applied life cycle sustainability assessment (LCSA) framework to estimate the sustainability performance in terms of a single score, and to identify avenues for sustainability improvement strategies of buildings.

NATSPEC worksections cover a wide range of chillers including those with centrifugal, screw or scroll compressors, air or water cooling and heat recovery. Absorption chillers are also included; the chiller worksections also include options for specifying requirements such as IPLV and NPLV; this TECHnote aims to help specifiers to complete the included schedules.

Discusses options for specifying particulate air filters for air conditioning and ventilation.

NATSPEC produces a range of specification worksection templates which include technical and quality requirements for most building types.

Develop simple and flexible guiding principles that work within the context of the practice.

Schedules summarise information about a related group of items in a tabular form, in NATSPEC, they are used to document a selection of products or systems by their distinguishing characteristics or properties.