Insights
Guides on how construction actually works here - registration, cost, procurement and delivery. Written to be useful whether or not you ever appoint Primebuild.
On most sites, safety means protecting the people who chose to be there. On a school, a clinic or a parish, it means protecting everyone who did not.
Most sustainability decisions cost nothing if made early and a fortune if made late. Orientation is free on a drawing and impossible once the foundations are in.
Refurbishment budgets do not overrun because contractors are dishonest. They overrun because nobody looked properly before the price was agreed.
NCA registration governs the company. DIT grade testing governs the person actually laying the blockwork - and on a building site that is the difference you live with.
The choice you make before appointing anyone shapes cost certainty, programme and - when something goes wrong - who is responsible. Most clients make it by accident.
Ask three contractors what a building costs per square metre and you will get three numbers, all of them useless. Here is what actually moves the price - and how to read a quotation properly.
Anyone can print a business card that says 'contractor'. NCA registration is the line between a licensed construction company and someone with a wheelbarrow and confidence - and it takes about five minutes to check.
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