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Ideas & Perspectives

How to be sure you’re getting genuine Colorsteel

Ideas & Perspectives

Patterson Associates on why cost control starts before design begins

Cost control is often treated as something that happens after the design is complete. A project comes in over budget, the drawings are reviewed and the architecture is gradually reduced through a value management cost-cutting process. Rooms are cut. Materials are swapped. Details are simplified. What began as a clear idea can become a series of compromises. Leaving homeowners and architects traumatised.

Building & Renovating

Designing for the next generation of hot water in commercial design

Long considered a behind-the-scenes service, commercial hot water infrastructure can be a key player in operational efficiency and carbon reduction strategies. For specifiers, this shift is prompting a closer look at the refrigerants powering modern heat pump systems, and increasingly, one option is gaining attention: R290.