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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...

The Globe Group operates across a defined region of England, with the bulk of activity in East Anglia and the South East. That regional footprint is a deliberate operational decision rather than a default. It is what allows the group to deliver consistently rather...

Programme certainty is the outcome developers care about most. Most of the financial model on a residential scheme is sensitive to time. Sales releases depend on plot completion dates. Cash flow depends on certification milestones. Interest on facility drawdown...

Handover on a residential development is the point at which the documentation either holds up or does not. The site is finished, the keys are about to change hands and the warranty period is about to start. At that moment the developer needs every package to be...

CDM 2015 placed the bulk of construction safety duty on the principal contractor. On a busy housing scheme that obligation lands in many places at once. Method statements need to be live, not filed. RAMS need to reflect what is actually being done on site this week,...

On most new build sites, the trades are organised by package. Groundworks, scaffold, brickwork, roofing, fall protection and external works each have their own subcontractor, their own programme and their own definition of finished. The places where one package ends...