133 Construction & Development articles with practical guidance for projects and investments in Saudi Arabia.
Where the budget for a small Saudi apartment building is really decided, which lines an owner can move without damaging the asset, and the costs that never appear in the first quotation.
Read MoreA showroom needs clear span, height, glazing, loading and lighting that ordinary retail does not. Where the budget goes, what an owner controls and what appears late.
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A cold store is a refrigeration plant with a building around it. What it demands in envelope, floor, power, redundancy and management compared with an ordinary warehouse.
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Suction, compressed air, sterilisation, ventilation and shielding make a small clinical space expensive. The cost lines in a dental or day surgery fit-out and how to control each.
Read MoreThe trade-off between a single firm that designs and builds, and a designer appointed separately from the builder, judged on control, price certainty and who carries the risk.
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The stages of a residential build, what each one must produce, who owns it and the approval that should close it before the next begins.
Read MoreProgramme slippage is rarely one-sided. Separating the two kinds of delay decides who pays for the time, and what can still be recovered.
Read MoreThe old triangle is repeated as if it were a law of physics. Where it holds on a construction site, and where it quietly does not.
Read MoreWhat a geotechnical report changes in a construction budget, from foundation type to dewatering and retaining, and why it is the cheapest report you buy.
Read MoreFinishing decisions arrive late and block trades. A sequence for making them in the order the programme actually needs.
Read MoreA fixed sum for a defined scope, or payment for the quantities actually built: how each pricing basis behaves when the design or the ground moves.
Read MoreSome owners control time with a handful of contractual milestones, others with a fully linked programme. They fail in different ways and suit different projects.
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