Notes from site and studio: how we plan, procure and build, and what we have learned delivering projects across Uganda.
What clients most often ask before appointing anyone is simply: what actually happens, and when will I hear from you? Here is the shape of a project from our side.
Company News
The cheapest subcontract quote is frequently the most expensive appointment. Here is what we weigh instead, and what a subcontractor can expect from us.
Company News
What clients most often ask before appointing anyone is simply: what actually happens, and when will I hear from you? Here is the shape of a project from our side.
Industry Insight
Approvals rarely delay a project because they are hard. They delay it because they were started late, or in an order that made one wait on another.
Industry Insight
Clients often ask why two quotes for the same building differ so much. The answer is usually in five cost drivers, only some of which anyone can control.
Procurement & Supply
Cement spoils in storage, steel ties up cash, and running out stops the job. Timing material buying against the programme beats guessing where prices are going.
Procurement & Supply
Most supplier disputes are decided by what the LPO left out. Ten minutes spent writing it properly settles arguments that otherwise take weeks.
Health & Safety
A small number of hazards account for most serious construction injuries. Knowing which, and applying the controls that genuinely work, is most of site safety.
Health & Safety
Most inductions are a signature exercise: forty minutes of talking, a form signed, nothing retained. Here is what a twenty-minute induction that actually changes behaviour contains.
Engineering & Design
The cheapest foundation is the one the ground will actually carry. Here is how pads, strips, rafts and piles compare, and why skipping the investigation costs more than it saves.