“AIQS recommends that clients engage with the contracting community to ensure base assumptions are correct, and if not, adjust the design or parameters early to make sure the project can work. This could mean changing a product, accelerating the project or delaying it.”
A number of construction industry bodies are currently assisting the federal government in developing frameworks for measuring, certifying, and benchmarking emissions from construction and building materials, in a bid to reduce embodied carbon.
Currently, the Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) is working with MECLA, NABERS and the GBCA to assist in the development of a national framework for measuring, certifying, and benchmarking emissions from construction and building materials.
The Australian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (AIQS) has urged both Australian homeowners and their insurers to mandate the use of a quantity surveyor when taking out home insurance in light of recent natural disasters.