AS 4000:2025, released in June 2025, replaced the 1997 general conditions. The headline changes with clause numbers: GST, PPSA, WHS principal contractor, dispute resolution, and what to fix in your templates.
Three of the most credible analyst voices in construction technology published their theses within weeks of each other. McKinsey on agentic services. Andreessen Horowitz on the system-of-record era ending. Zacua Ventures on AI across the construction value chain. All three arrived at the same structural observation we articulated in The Infrastructure Beneath the Infrastructure in March: the industry needs an intelligence layer, not more tools. The question is no longer whether. The question is how you build one that actually works. This article is our answer. Decision Intelligence Infrastructure (DII™) is a six-floor architecture. Each floor compounds on the floors beneath it. Most of the industry sits between the ground and second levels. The key challenge is not technical but human: institutional intelligence leaves when a project demobilises or when staff depart. Australia serves as a rigorous test case for any architecture aspiring to reach the sixth floor. We are building from this context and publishing the framework openly.
By Matthew Secatore - Co-Founder of AEC Assistant 15 min read · Construction · Decision Intelligence · AEC Compliance · Infrastructure · AI
The ARBV and NSW ARB joint report on systemic risks in the architecture sector (October 2022): D&C procurement, client agreements, NCC compliance and the climate and technology disruptors, with what a practice can do about each.
On Mother's Day 2025 we look at the women balancing AEC careers with parenthood: participation figures, the parental leave rules from 1 July 2024, and what practices can do to keep them.
Free for the NCC, state legislation, ABCB handbooks and practice notes, with citations, and planning information for any address in Australia. No credit card.
