200 articles in Building and Developing in Saudi Arabia with practical commercial and delivery insight.
How to turn a plot into a permitted building envelope: the checks, the documents and the order that give you a defensible buildable area.
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How to audit a development study you did not write: the seven places optimism hides, what each one does to the return, and the question that exposes it.
Read MoreA selection process for appointing an engineering office or architect on a Saudi project, from defining the scope to signing an appointment you can enforce.
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What a geotechnical report changes in a construction budget, from foundation type to dewatering and retaining, and why it is the cheapest report you buy.
Read MoreA fixed sum for a defined scope, or payment for the quantities actually built: how each pricing basis behaves when the design or the ground moves.
Read MoreSome owners control time with a handful of contractual milestones, others with a fully linked programme. They fail in different ways and suit different projects.
Read MoreThe number that matters in a monthly cost report is not what has been spent. It is what the project will cost by the end, and most reports bury it.
Read MoreAn owner abroad needs someone on the ground who can decide, not just report. The hard part is writing down exactly what they may decide.
Read MoreFacade problems are the hardest defects to correct, because access, sequence and weather protection all have to be rebuilt to reach them.
Read MoreSafety is the contractor duty, and a serious incident still stops your project, damages your name and changes your relationship with authorities.
Read MoreWhat a gated residential compound demands of its owner, from the tenant covenant and amenity decisions to infrastructure, phasing and the operating model at handover.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation for a 24-key serviced apartment building: room revenue, channel commission, operating cost and gross operating profit against the capital it took to build.
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