Succession planning for a small building business
Most small builders plan the sale or the handover date and forget everything that has to move with it. The licence, the people, the clients and the accounts all need their own plan.
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Project Management
Articles and news about Project Management for Australian builders.
Succession planning for a small building business
Most small builders plan the sale or the handover date and forget everything that has to move with it. The licence, the people, the clients and the accounts all need their own plan.
12 min read
Performance reviews for site staff without the awkwardness
A review should record what you saw on the job, not how you feel about the person. This routine keeps the conversation specific, fair and free of surprises.
12 min read
Waste management plans and skip bin costs for builders
Waste is one of the few line items a builder controls almost entirely from the site office. Plan the sorting, the bin placement and the haul before the first delivery, and the cost stops drifting.
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Setting up a residential site properly before you start
Site establishment is the work you do before the first trade arrives — and it sets the cost and programme of everything that follows. Get the physical setup and the services wrong and you spend the rest of the job working around it.
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A WHS management plan sized for small builders
A WHS management plan is not a document you buy and file. It is the written version of how you control risk on a particular job, and it only works if it is short enough that you and your subbies actually use it.
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Managing client selections: the process that quietly eats your margin
Selections are not paperwork that follows the build. They are the schedule that determines whether the build can proceed and whether the price you signed still holds. A controlled selections process is a margin control, not an administrative nicety.
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Site administration: the records that protect a builder when a job turns
Most builders do not lose disputes because they were wrong. They lose because they cannot prove they were right. Site administration is the discipline of creating that proof while the work is happening.
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Business systems that keep a small building company sane
Most small building companies do not have a systems problem, they have a document-control problem. This is a template and control approach that keeps quoting, bookkeeping, WHS and project records consistent without adding software.
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Managing prefab and modular orders without losing money
Most prefab losses are not built in the factory. They are made in the paperwork that goes out weeks earlier and the site sequencing that happens weeks later.
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Building a realistic construction programme for home jobs
Most small residential programmes fail not because the sequence is wrong but because there is no float in it. This is a method for sequencing home jobs and holding buffer where it actually protects the completion date.
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Neighbour access, damage and complaints on a residential site
Neighbour consent to access is a commercial risk you can close out before the excavator arrives. Here is how to document adjoining property, handle damage claims, and answer complaints without accepting liability you do not own.
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Managing subcontractors on NSW residential sites: the day-to-day controls that keep a job moving
Contract terms set the frame, but a job is won or lost in how you run the trades each day. Sequencing, supervision, written direction and defect close-out are what stop a programme sliding.
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