200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
The sequence a foreign owner moves through before any concrete is poured, with the seven gates where a development should be allowed to stop cheaply.
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The appraisal method developers use to price land: start from what the finished building sells for, take out every cost and the profit, and see what is left.
Read MoreMost overruns are decided before a contractor arrives. Seven budgeting failures that happen during land, design and approvals, and how to close each one.
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What goes into a Saudi building permit application, who prepares each part, and the order to assemble it so the submission is complete the first time.
Read MoreHow to take a completed design to market and come back with comparable prices: shortlisting, documents, queries, returns and the analysis that follows.
Read MoreThe month between signing a construction contract and the first real progress decides how the rest of the build behaves. Here is the sequence to insist on.
Read MoreEvery month a contractor asks to be paid for work they say they have done. The certification process is where an absent owner keeps or loses control of the money.
Read MoreMost monthly reports are a photograph album with a covering note. Here is the report that lets an owner in another country make decisions rather than react.
Read MoreQuality on site is not achieved by good intentions. It is achieved by a document that says what gets checked, by whom, and what cannot proceed until it passes.
Read MoreMost of the work on your building will be done by companies you never contracted with. Six beliefs about that arrangement that cost owners money.
Read MoreThe decisions an overseas owner has to make before anyone draws a build-to-rent apartment block in Saudi Arabia, stage by stage, with the deliverable and the gate for each one.
Read MoreA stage-by-stage brief for a foreign employer building its own staff housing in the Kingdom, from the occupancy policy and grade mix to commissioning and the handover to facilities.
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