200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
A contractor asks to change a specified material for an equivalent. Sometimes that is good engineering and sometimes it is margin recovery. How to tell.
Read MoreMost owners let the defects period run out and then discover the problems. Here is how to spend it finding faults while somebody else still has to fix them.
Read MoreTwo different businesses sit behind the same villa: a sales product and a rental product. What each one requires in specification, cash flow, contract and attention from abroad.
Read MoreWeekend chalets and resort units look simple to build and are punished by climate, distance and intermittent use. The errors that cost most, and the evidence that each is resolved.
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Coworking looks like a cheap fit-out with high rent per square metre. What acoustics, ventilation, power, connectivity and member behaviour actually demand of the space.
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Fuel, food, parking and a forecourt on one site, each with its own approvals and hazards. The mistakes owners make when developing roadside service facilities in the Kingdom.
Read MoreA nursery is not a small school. Six assumptions about early years buildings in Saudi Arabia, tested against safety, ratios, outdoor space and the way parents choose.
Read MoreThe questions that change a construction appointment, the ones owners leave out, and how to record the answers so they become obligations rather than reassurances.
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Which decisions and instruments an overseas owner should hold personally, which can safely be delegated, and the specific ways control is quietly given away.
Read MoreAn exclusive sales mandate compared with a panel of brokers for a new Saudi development, judged on control, price discipline, coverage and accountability.
Read MoreThe assumptions overseas owners make about running a Saudi property remotely, and the reporting, authority and verification that actually keep an absent owner in control.
Read MoreAn illustrative SAR comparison between what a development appraisal promised and what it delivered, attributing the gap to cost, revenue and time.
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