A phased residential development is not the same as a single construction project delivered in sequence. It’s a series of interdependent programmes, each with its own mobilisation requirements, its own trade packages, and its own completion milestones — but all sharing the same site, the same infrastructure, and often the same subcontractor supply chain. Managing continuity across those phases is one of the most demanding coordination challenges a developer faces.
The decisions made in the procurement of specialist subcontractors have a direct bearing on how well that continuity is maintained. A roofing contractor who completes phase one and then isn’t available for phase two introduces a re-procurement exercise, a re-briefing process, and a period of familiarisation that costs time and programme certainty. A groundworks contractor whose standards on phase three differ from phase one creates inconsistency in the formation quality that every subsequent trade has to work with.
The Globe Group’s structure is designed to support continuity across phased developments — not as an aspiration, but as a practical operational reality.
Consistent Resource Allocation Across Phases
One of the most visible ways programme continuity breaks down on phased developments is resource availability. A roofing subcontractor who was fully resourced for phase one may have committed their gangs elsewhere by the time phase two is ready to mobilise. A scaffolding contractor who performed well on the earlier phases may not be able to match the programme requirement for later phases without significant lead time.
Globe Roofing’s plot-based pricing and gang management model is designed around the requirements of multi-phase residential developments. The programme for subsequent phases is planned in conjunction with the developer’s overall development timeline, with resource allocation agreed in advance rather than negotiated afresh each time a new phase mobilises. The same applies to Globe Cambridge’s scaffold programme — erection, adaptation, and decommissioning planned around the full development sequence, not just the immediate phase.
Familiarity With the Site and the Developer’s Requirements
There is a practical efficiency that comes from a subcontractor who already knows a site — the ground conditions, the access arrangements, the quirks of the infrastructure, the standards the developer’s site management team expects. On a large phased development, that familiarity accumulates over the early phases and pays dividends in the later ones.
Globe Civil Engineering’s experience of East Anglia’s chalk and clay ground conditions means that on a phased development in the region, the division’s plant selection, formation approach, and compaction methodology are calibrated to the site from the outset. Globe Cambridge’s pre-construction site assessments, conducted before each phase mobilises, build on the knowledge of the site established in previous phases. Globe Roofing’s plot records from earlier phases inform the programme planning for later ones.
None of that familiarity is available when a developer re-procures specialist packages for each phase from scratch.
Coordination Between Divisions Across a Phased Programme
On sites where multiple Globe Group divisions are working simultaneously — groundworks completing on one phase while scaffold is being erected on another and roofing is progressing on a third — the coordination between those packages is managed within the group. The interfaces between the divisions are established, the communication frameworks are in place, and the programme is managed across all three packages simultaneously rather than as separate workstreams that happen to be on the same site.
For the principal contractor, this means the coordination overhead of managing multiple specialist packages across overlapping phases is significantly reduced. Questions that would otherwise require the principal contractor to mediate between unrelated subcontractors are resolved within the Globe Group before they affect programme.
The Track Record on Phased Developments
The Globe Group’s long-term relationships with developers including Vistry, Barratt Homes, Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Bellway, Redrow, and Bloor Homes have been built across phased residential programmes, not single projects. These developers return to the Globe Group’s divisions for subsequent schemes because the programme continuity they experienced on earlier phases is consistently replicated on later ones.
The Globe Group’s 97% on-time project delivery record reflects performance across phased developments as well as single-phase projects — a consistent standard maintained across all four divisions, across multiple sites, and across programmes that span several years.
To discuss programme continuity across groundworks, scaffold, roofing, and fall protection packages on your next phased development, contact the Globe Group today.
