238 Construction & Development articles with practical guidance for projects and investments in Saudi Arabia.
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.
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The same villa on two different structural grids. A calculation showing why the decision belongs at concept stage.
Read MoreEvery rate in a tender contains material, labour, plant, overhead, profit and risk. Understanding the build-up is how an owner reads a bid properly.
Read MoreFive illustrative incidents on one project, traced through works insurance, liability cover, professional indemnity and the owner uninsured exposure.
Read MoreA contractor who is late will offer to recover the time. Recovery is never free, and knowing where the cost lands tells you whether to accept it.
Read MoreBonds, guarantees and advances all shift risk between owner and contractor, and each of them has a price that ends up inside your construction cost.
Read MoreRemote oversight is not free, and it is much cheaper than the alternative. The cost lines of running proper control on a project you cannot attend.
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 MoreReplacing a contractor mid project feels decisive and costs more than owners expect. A worked example of the two routes with the numbers side by side.
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.
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