268 Construction & Development articles with practical guidance for projects and investments in Saudi Arabia.
Two pricing models, two very different ways of carrying risk. Here is how each behaves when drawings change, prices move or the programme slips.
Read MoreSupervision is the first line owners try to delete from the budget. Six beliefs about it, tested against what actually happens on site.
Read MoreMulti-unit construction rewards repetition and punishes variety. Where the money concentrates when you build to rent or sell.
Read MoreTwo common approaches to insulating walls in a hot climate, and what each one demands from detailing and site workmanship.
Read MoreHow to take a completed design to market and come back with comparable prices: shortlisting, documents, queries, returns and the analysis that follows.
Read MoreThe month between signing a construction contract and the first real progress decides how the rest of the build behaves. Here is the sequence to insist on.
Read MoreEvery month a contractor asks to be paid for work they say they have done. The certification process is where an absent owner keeps or loses control of the money.
Read MoreMost monthly reports are a photograph album with a covering note. Here is the report that lets an owner in another country make decisions rather than react.
Read MoreA selection process that picks a construction contract form from the state of your design and your appetite for risk, instead of defaulting to whatever the last project used.
Read MoreMost of the work on your building will be done by companies you never contracted with. Six beliefs about that arrangement that cost owners money.
Read MoreHow a monthly construction valuation is actually built: what is measured, how materials on site are treated, and what has to be agreed before a certificate can be issued.
Read MoreHoarding, gates, power, water, storage and setting out are temporary, but they fix the cost and safety of everything that follows. Here is the order a competent team works in.
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