268 Construction & Development articles with practical guidance for projects and investments in Saudi Arabia.
A building that looks finished is not a building that works. What commissioning actually proves, and the beliefs that let owners skip it.
Read MoreBringing a contractor in before the design is finished can save money and time, or it can remove your competitive position. Six assumptions worth testing before you choose it.
Read MoreOwners budget to build and assume operating cost starts small. The first year of a new building has costs that never appear again, and some that never stop.
Read MoreThe monthly comparison of what a contract has earned against what it has cost, worked through in illustrative riyals to show how a profitable job turns into a loss unnoticed.
Read MoreCuring is the cheapest quality step on site and the first one dropped when the programme tightens. These are the failures it causes and how each one is prevented.
Read MoreA notice clause can turn a sound claim into nothing. The failures that recur on every project, what each costs, and the administrative habits that prevent them.
Read MoreA specification describes quality in words. A benchmark panel shows it. Agreeing the standard physically is the cheapest way to prevent an argument over a finished floor.
Read MoreWhere a construction dispute is decided is settled by a clause signed years earlier. What each route asks of the parties, and what to think about before choosing one.
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New tools are marketed as transformative. Six claims examined against what they actually do today.
Read MoreCables, routes and spare capacity are cheap while the walls are open and expensive afterwards. Here is what each element costs you and which ones are worth it.
Read MoreSome defects cost a little more than the original work to repair. These five cost many times more, because fixing them means removing finished construction.
Read MoreThe cost items in a serious contractor selection process for a foreign owner, what drives each one up or down, and how to control the total without weakening the checks.
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