House rules
Editorial standards
This is a journal, not a brochure. The reader should be able to tell a reported fact from an opinion, and a useful link from a paid one.
Accuracy
We write in Australian English and we use Australian instruments by their right names: the National Construction Code, development applications, complying development, AS 2870, AS 3600, superintendent, preliminaries, PC sums. If a state rule differs, we say which state. We do not invent case studies.
Independence
Staff essays are not for sale. Guest essays follow the write-for-us rules. A commercial relationship is disclosed on the page. Paid or guest-post links use rel="sponsored".
Corrections
If we get a number, a code clause or a name wrong, we fix it in place and keep a short note at the foot of the essay when the change is material. Send evidence through contact.
Images
We only publish Creative Commons or public-domain images, self-hosted in this repository, with the author and licence on the page and on image credits. We do not scrape stock libraries and hope.
What we are not
We are not your architect, builder, lawyer or certifier. Nothing here is professional advice for a named project. If a job is live, hire the person who will sign the drawing.