Globe Group

Insurance and indemnity arrangements on a construction site are where liability translates into money when something goes wrong. On paper, every contractor holds public liability, employer's liability, professional indemnity and contract works cover to the levels...

Safety culture is one of those things that gets talked about a lot in construction and delivered inconsistently. Everyone agrees it matters. Fewer sites actually have it. And the sites that do have it produce measurably lower rates of reportable incidents than the...

Framework agreements between developers and suppliers exist because the alternative, individually tendering every package on every scheme, is expensive in management time and inefficient in supplier development. The framework reduces friction by holding pricing,...

On phased residential schemes, the points where one trade's work meets another are the points where liability becomes ambiguous. A roof leak appearing six months after handover may have originated in roofing installation, in cavity wall detailing, in scaffold tie...

Procurement strategy on a residential development is rarely the loudest decision a developer makes, but it is often the one that most shapes the live-site experience. The choice between single-source procurement (one supplier for multiple packages) and multi-package...

On a live housing site, decisions need to be made quickly. A query about scaffold loading raised on Tuesday morning that has not been resolved by Tuesday afternoon costs the brickie gang a day. A request for design clarification on a complex eaves detail that takes a...