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.
11 min read
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Scheduling
Articles and news about Scheduling for Australian builders.
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.
11 min read
Weather and seasonal impacts on residential building schedules
Seasonal weather is not a variation. It is a known condition of the site, and the programme either accounts for it or the builder absorbs the cost of pretending it does not exist.
12 min read
Delays and extensions of time on NSW building contracts: running the notice and evidence process
Most delay claims are not lost on the merits. They are lost because the notice went in late, or went in without evidence that ties the delay to the critical path. Here is how to run the process so the claim survives scrutiny.
13 min read
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.
11 min read