Practical guidance on building safety compliance, contract management, and quantity surveying from the DCS team.
Want to recover delay costs from a main contractor? You need the right records from the very start. Most subcontractors find out too late. Here's the weekly checklist.
The Building Safety Act 2022 created two new legal roles for residential HRBs. Here's the difference, why it matters, and what happens if you get it wrong.
NRM2 is the RICS standard for measuring building works. Here is what it means for your tender, how Bills of Quantities are structured, and why your quantities matter more than you think.
Unlimited liability clauses, payment notice timebars, and retention traps — the amendments main contractors add to JCT forms that most subcontractors sign without reading.
5 reasons method statements and risk assessments fail approval — generic hazards, missing site specifics, wrong signatures — and how to write RAMS that get accepted first time.
A practical breakdown of the 6 key areas BSR assesses in a Gateway 2 submission — dutyholder competence, fire strategy, change control, Golden Thread, and the most common rejection reasons.