200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
The security an owner takes on a construction contract, what each instrument protects against, and why every one of them is paid for in the contract sum.
Read MoreMost construction disputes are lost in the correspondence months before anyone mentions a dispute. The notice habits that quietly decide the outcome.
Read MoreThe final account is the last chance to settle a build correctly, and the point where owners give away positions they spent two years protecting.
Read MoreThree different measures of progress on the same building can differ by fifteen points. A worked example of how to reconcile them and which one to trust.
Read MoreLong lead items decide completion dates more often than site productivity does. A worked example of building the log and reading what it tells you.
Read MoreA finished building without power is not a building you can use. A worked example of how connection processes decide a completion date nobody controls.
Read MoreAttached housing looks like a cheaper villa and behaves like a different building type. Six assumptions about townhouses and duplexes, tested against what the build actually demands.
Read More
Two hospitality products on the same plot, with very different capital, staffing, licensing and management demands. A comparison written for an owner who will not be on site.
Read MoreAn events hall is a peak-load building used a few nights a week. Six assumptions about halls in Saudi Arabia, tested against parking, cooling, catering and licensing reality.
Read More
The same square metre costs several times more to fit out as a clinic than as a warehouse office. The lines that create the difference and what an owner can do about each.
Read More
Cooling dominates energy use in Saudi buildings. The retrofit measures worth paying for, the order to take them in, and the costs that appear once work starts.
Read MoreThe beliefs foreign owners bring to a Saudi construction appointment, tested against how a build is actually controlled, priced and supervised in the Kingdom.
Read More