180 articles in Construction and Contracting with practical commercial and delivery insight.
Insurance is mentioned in one clause and verified almost never. The gaps that turn a manageable event into a personal liability.
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Not the handover file, but the live data set: what is installed, how old it is, who services it and what it will cost next. Here is how owners lose it.
Read MoreThe same villa on two different structural grids. A calculation showing why the decision belongs at concept stage.
Read MoreAn illustrative calculation of what it takes to turn a residential villa into usable office space, from permissions and parking to cooling and escape provision.
Read MoreEvery risk you push onto the contractor comes back as a number in the price. This is what the common transfers cost, what moves them and when carrying the risk yourself is cheaper.
Read MoreA provisional sum is an allowance for work that is not yet defined. Treated as a budget line it works. Treated as a fixed price it quietly breaks both cost and programme.
Read MoreA pour returns one low cube. Is the concrete rejected, investigated or accepted? This worked example shows how the arithmetic and the procedure actually run.
Read MoreA delay claim is about the completion date. A disruption claim is about lost productivity, and it can succeed on a project that finished on time. The proof is not the same.
Read MoreWet rooms leak at thresholds, drains and pipe penetrations, not through the tiles. This is the order of work, with the test that proves it before anything is covered.
Read MoreA construction final account is the sum of a dozen separate settlements. What each line contains, what moves it, and the order to settle them in.
Read MoreA modern villa is far tighter than an old one, the windows stay shut for months, and air conditioning recirculates. Where does the fresh air actually come from?
Read MoreFacade panels fail at their fixings. Brackets with no adjustment, no allowance for expansion and the wrong metals in contact are the faults that recur.
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