Technical Services
Current at: 22 February 2010 (A)
Telephone Support
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If you work in the building industry and you have a compliance or workmanship question, then call As-Built Learning Exchange (ABLE) Technical Services.
A wise old sage once said “you don’t have to know everything; you just have to know someone who does”. If ABLE Technical Services doesn’t have the information they are likely to know “someone who does”.
ABLE Technical Services is not a regulator. This means you are free to raise issues and ask the questions you need answered (see Privacy Policy). And, because ABLE Technical Services works with designers and draftspeople, estimators and schedulers, construction managers and supervisors, tradespeople and suppliers, you can be confident that you will be talking to someone who understands your issues.
If someone has already called about a similar issue, you benefit from that prior experience. If a new issue is raised that is likely to inform common practice, ABLE Technical Services will research an answer. If your issue is outside the scope of likely common practice ABLE Technical Services will outline the support that can be provided to resolve the issue.
Consulting
ABLE Technical Services also provides consulting services to builders, suppliers and government bodies.
Builders and suppliers requesting consulting services are invited to enter into a Common Practice Exchange Agreement whereby ABLE Technical Services assists with the development of better common practices and the builder or supplier agrees that the outcome of that work can be used by ABLE for the ongoing development of practicable, technically sound, descriptions of common practice.
ABLE Technical Services give businesses access to the learning gained from developing common practice resources to resolve work practice, product and material use, regulatory understanding and compliance assessment barriers.
Businesses benefit from working with someone who knows how to best adapt ABLE resources to meet their specific needs, and who can provide a third-person perspective on current technical contracting practices.
Investigating Building Issues
Building issues investigations typically take two forms:
Common Practice Investigations
These investigations research, test and report the evidence needed to verify that a local practice is equivalent to DTS design and construction or, when outside the scope of compliance, collect the evidence needed to substantiate a reasonable description for a specific workmanship practice.
Builder Issue Investigations
These investigations provide builders with a pro-active way to manage client and contractor issues. Rather than responding to the client’s private inspector report, ABLE Technical Services is an impartial third party that works with recognised experts-in-their-field to collate the technical evidence needed for effective issue resolution.
When an investigation is requested, the Builder is invited to enter into a Common Practice Exchange Agreement whereby ABLE Technical Services manages the investigative process and the Builder agrees that the outcome of the investigation can be used by ABLE for the ongoing development of practicable, technically sound, descriptions of common practice.
Training & Development
ABLE Technical Services workshops can be tailored to suit specific work roles and subjects. They can also be delivered in-office or on-site to suit the subject and audience.
This ensures that designers and draftspeople, pre-start and contract administrators, estimators and schedulers, and supervisors and tradespeople hear a clear, shared and consistent message.
ABLE Technical Services workshops use Common Practice content to translate national regulations into local practice.
ABLE Technical Services also provides in-house training and development programs. These are run where people work (in-office and on-site) using what they work with (drawings, trade descriptions, take-off sheets etc). These sessions provide an opportunity for people to learn about compliance and workmanship in the context of their workplace and the actual decisions they are required to make.
The ABLE Technical Services Workshop Learning Model illustrates how workshop content is structured to achieve specific “knowing” or “doing” outcomes. This approach ensures that individuals learn what they need to know, and then how to use that knowledge to make in-the-moment decisions.
ABLE Technical Services WORKSHOP PLANNER
The Workshop Planner provides a framework for thinking through the subject, intent, role, format and location decisions that lead to the development of a useful learning experience.