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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 115

III. FINAL EXAMINATION.

The subjects for the Final Examination shall be defined as follows:—

1. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN.—(a) Preliminary studies, subject to be announced four months before date of examination. The candidate will be required to prepare a complete design to scale of the subject given with details, a general specification of the work, and a sketch perspective, to be submitted to the Board of Examiners one month before the date of examination, to accompany the candidate’s application for examination and the prescribed fee.

(b) A problem for design to be announced in the examination room, and worked out in a given time.

2. HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE.—The historic development of the orders and styles or periods of Architecture and Architectural ornament under the following headings, viz.:—

(a) ANCIENT AND CLASSIC, including Prehistoric, Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, Byzantine and Romanesque.

(b) MEDIAEVAL, including English from the Conquest to Elizabeth, and a knowledge of prominent examples of Continental buildings of the same period.

(c) RENAISSANCE.—English from Elizabeth to Victoria and French and Italian of the same period.

3. BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, including foundations, scaffolding, concrete, reinforced concrete, walling, carpentry and joinery, iron and steelwork, plumbing and metalwork, roofing, plastering and the uses and properties of materials used in building.

4. MATHEMATICS AND MECHANICS, including Algebra, geometry, mensuration, forces, graphic methods, stresses and strains, diagrams, &c.

5. DESCRIPTIVE GEOMETRY, PERSPECTIVE AND FREEHAND, including architectural drawing and rendering, geometry and protection of solids, architectural perspective, freehand drawing from cast and memory.

6. ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM.—A general knowledge of induction, magnetism, the electric current, electromotive forces, units of electrical quantities, coils, batteries, dynamos, motors, systems of wiring and insulation, &c.

7. SANITATION SCIENCE AND HYGIENE.—Sanitary plumbing, drainage, sanitation, ventilation, sites and aspects, soils and subsoils, heating and hot-water engineering, lighting, gas and water supplies, &c.

8. PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.—Relations between Architect and employer, contractor, clerk of works, &c., laws and by-laws relating to buildings, building contracts, rights of building owners, indentures, &c.

9. ORAL.—Candidates will be examined orally in their preliminary studies and answers to examination papers.

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APPENDIX “K.”

New Zealand Institute of Architects (Incorporated).

SCALE OF CHARGES.

1. The minimum charge to be made for an architect’s services, except as hereinafter mentioned, shall be 5 per cent. for the preparation of plans, specifications, and supervision on the total cost of the works executed from his designs, and 1½ per cent. for the supplying of copies of plans, specifications and detailed drawings to the contractors or employers; if the employer requires copies of plans and specifications additional to those first mentioned a charge will be made according to circumstances. For all work where the expenditure is for skilled labour, and not for materials—e.g., in designs for fittings and furniture of buildings, for their decoration with painting or mosaic, for their sculpture, for stained glass, and other like work—5 per cent. is not remunerative and the architect’s charge should be regulated by special circumstances and conditions.

2. For preparing contract plans and specifications, including preliminary sketches … 2½ per cent.

This charge is payable on the amount of the contract when signed. In the case of no contract being signed or no tenders being accepted the charge is payable on the completion of the plans and specifications and shall be made upon the architect’s estimate of the value of the work.

For general superintendence, exclusive of clerk-of-works … … … … 2½ per cent.

This charge is payable by instalments of 2½ per cent. on the amount of certificates for progress payments and the balance on the completion of the work.

For work executed by a builder and paid for on the basis of a priced schedule, by time and material, day labour, or otherwise than by contract for a stated amount, 5 per cent. on the total ascertained cost of works, payable as follows:—

(a) On completion of plans and specifications including preliminary sketches 2½ per cent.

(b) For general superintendence, exclusive of clerk-of-works … … … 2½ per cent.

This charge is payable by instalments of 2½ per cent. on the amount of certificates for progress payments and the balance on the completion of the work.

Employer or contractors for use of copies of plans and specifications, and for detail drawings will be charged … … … 1½ per cent.

For preparing preliminary sketches if working plans and specifications are not proceeded with … … … … 1½ per cent.

For procuring tenders for works if not proceeded with under the supervision of the architect … … … … ½ per cent.

3. Besides the above charges, all travelling, advertising and other incidental expenses incurred by the architect are paid by the employer, who may be also charged for the time occupied in travelling if the work be executed at a considerable or inconvenient distance, or if more than ordinary attendance is required.

4. For an approximate estimate of a proposed work where drawings are not prepared a charge shall be made according to circumstances.

5. No additional remuneration is due for making an approximate estimate, such as may be obtained for instance by cubing out the contents. If a detailed estimate be required by the client, an additional per centum charge may be made.

6. If a client after he has agreed to a design should have material alterations made in the drawings while in course of preparation or after completion, the architect shall be entitled to make an extra charge, unless such alterations are rendered necessary by an unreasonable excess in the builder’s tender beyond the architect’s approximate estimate.

7. The commission is reckoned upon the total cost of the works, valued as if executed by a builder, and of new materials; 2½ per cent. is charged upon any works originally included in the contract but subsequently omitted in execution.

8. In calculating the amount on which commission shall be charged the actual or market value of all materials (old or new) provided by the employer shall be included.

9. The commission of 2½ per cent. for the preparation of plans and specifications does not provide for furnishing detailed drawings.

10. The above rates of commission do not apply to works costing less than £300. In such cases the charge to be made according to circumstances.

11. The commission of 1½ per cent. is for furnishing copies of drawings, specifications and detailed drawings for the use of contractor, and all copies of drawings and specifications shall be returned to the architect at the time he issues the final certificate, and they shall remain the property of the architect.

12. If the works in progress are stopped by order of the proprietor, the whole of the commission shall be considered as due to the architect. The architect, however, shall be at liberty in the latter case to make such rebate on the above charges, as to him may seem fair and reasonable.

13. The original plans and specifications and tracings shall remain the property of the architect.

14. The architect’s inspection of the work in progress is general only; and where more is necessary a clerk-of-works may be appointed by the architect, the salary of such person being paid by the employer, independently of the rates of commission above defined.

15. When several similar but distinct buildings are erected at the same time on adjoining sites from a single specification and one set of drawings, and under one contract, the full commission shall be charged upon the cost of one such building, and a less commission down to 3½ per cent. may be charged upon the cost of each of the others.

16. For carrying out alterations, additions, and repairs, a commission of 7½ per cent. shall be charged on amounts up to £500; above that amount the rate to be according to circumstances, but not less than 5 per cent.

17. The above charges do not cover the professional services in connection with negotiations for site, in surveying it and taking levels, in making surveys and plans of