Make sure you have the right amount of documentation for your construction project. Tip 5/7 of the series on ‘7 Things to Consider Before You Build’. During the process, there is going to be plenty of paperwork and documentation involved on the project.

My recommendation is to encourage you to pick out a well experienced Architect to help you in the preparation of the documentation and paperwork through these processes and during Construction. Always remember that failure to have the right details and amount of documentation and paperwork can really affect not only in the determination of your development application, but also result in obtaining inaccurate quotes from Builders (which lead to cost blowouts).

Make Sure You Have the Right Amount of Paperwork and Documentation to expedite the process and mitigate misunderstandings and confusion around your project. I can’t tell you the amount of times we have been given insufficent documentation on projects.

This results in there being a huge disparity between the quotes received.