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27/11/2025 – Webinar: Spotlight on Specifications

Poorly drafted specifications can lead to costly errors, performance failures, and a flood of requests for information and variation claims. In this webinar Wendy Poulton, Manager Risk Services and Felicity Dixon, Senior Risk Manager at informed by Planned Cover explore the technical, contractual, and insurance implications of specification writing and highlight how clear, consistent documentation can protect your practice and your clients.

Join us to sharpen your specification writing skills, reduce project risk, and strengthen your professional defensibility.

  • Event Information:

    Date:

    Thursday 27 November 2025

    Time:

    1.00pm – 2.00pm (AEDT)

    CPD:

    1 formal hour

    Cost:

    General Admission: $80

    (Special prices for Planned Cover clients and informed mailing list using your discount code. Email us for code: info@informedpc.com.au)

Learning Objectives:

Following completion of this webinar, you will:

  • Identify some of the risks with weak specifications and planned approaches to manage these
  • Understand the PI insurance implications as it relates to specifications
  • Consider contractual implications and how specifications interact with other project documents
  • Navigate the risks involved in performance specifications
  • Recognize case study examples around specifications and court findings

Units of Competency / Performance Criteria (as per the National Standard of Competency for Architects 2021):

PC 12, PC 47, PC 58