180 articles in Construction and Contracting with practical commercial and delivery insight.
A breakdown of a residential construction budget by component, what pushes each one up, and which levers reduce cost without reducing the house.
Read MoreRenovation looks cheaper until the structure is opened up. The tests that tell you which route your building can actually support.
Read MoreA numerical look at how retention works across handover and the defects period, and what happens to an owner who released it early.
Read MoreA breakdown of what a supervision fee buys, how it scales with project size, and the failures it is designed to catch.
Read MoreThe instructions to tenderers decide what you receive, how you may evaluate it and what happens if a bidder breaks the rules. Here is how to build that document properly.
Read MoreThe sequence that takes a change from an idea to an agreed, recorded variation, and the controls that stop instructions being issued by conversation.
Read MoreIsolated pads with ground beams and a continuous raft solve the same problem in different ways. The ground report, not the preference of the contractor, should decide.
Read MoreWhat a contractor can actually recover for being on site longer, how each head of claim is proved, and the lines that get disallowed almost every time.
Read MoreMaterials expand, shrink and deflect. A building without planned joints cracks in places the designer did not choose, usually across a finished surface.
Read MoreA non conformance report is only worth the close out. The failures that leave a register full of items marked closed and a building full of the same defects.
Read MoreHow many circuits, what protects them and where the board sits are decisions made early and lived with for decades. These are the beliefs that produce a poor board.
Read MoreNatural stone is heavier, more variable and less forgiving than tile. How it is fixed decides whether it stains, cracks or falls off a wall years later.
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