Your drawings.
Our site team.
Executing work for developers and owners to their drawings and specification, with our own supervision and labour — and a site record they can check rather than take on trust.
01 — Scope
How a contract runs
Scope & rate agreement
Quantities taken off your drawings and priced item-wise, so what is included and what is not is settled before mobilisation.
Mobilisation
Site establishment, labour deployment and the material schedule for the first stages agreed against the programme.
Execution & supervision
Our supervisors on site daily, running the trades to your specification and raising what needs a decision before it holds work up.
Daily records
Work done, labour present, material received and issued, and the access or weather problems that cost time — recorded the same day.
Measurement & billing
Running bills raised against measured work at the agreed rates, so payment tracks progress instead of argument.
Handover
Snagging closed against your checklist, with the site records handed over at completion.
02 — On site
What decides the outcome
Unclear scope is the real risk
Almost every contract dispute begins as an item nobody priced. The time to settle it is in the rate schedule, not in month four.
Records, or arguments
Attendance, material and progress recorded daily means a bill can be checked. Reconstructed from memory, it cannot.
Decisions cost time
A query raised and answered in a day costs nothing. The same query raised late stops a trade, and the ones queued behind it.
03 — Standards
How the contract is kept honest
An item-wise rate schedule, agreed before mobilisation
Quantities taken off the drawings and priced item by item, with inclusions and exclusions written down. Almost every contract dispute begins as an item nobody priced, and the rate schedule is the only cheap place to settle it.
Measurement against a method both sides accept
Work measured to an agreed method of measurement, so a running bill can be checked rather than argued. Which standard applies is worth naming in the contract rather than assuming.
Daily records kept the same day
Labour present, material received and issued, work completed, and the access, decision or weather problems that cost time. Recorded daily they support a bill; reconstructed at month end they support an argument.
Variations priced when they arise
A change instructed is a change priced, at the agreed rates where an item exists and by agreement where it does not - before the work is done rather than after. Variations settled at the end are settled from memory.
Retention, defects liability and what closes them
How much is retained, for how long, and precisely what has to happen for it to be released. Agreeing this at the start is what stops the last five per cent becoming the longest argument of the project.
04 — The choice
Item rate or lump sum.
The choice decides how changes are handled, and almost every contract dispute is really an argument about a change.
| Aspect | Item rate | Lump sum |
|---|---|---|
| What is priced | Each element separately, billed against work actually measured | One figure for a defined scope |
| Final figure | Follows the work done, so it moves with the quantities | Fixed, provided the scope does not move |
| Handling a change | Priced at the agreed rate for that item; routine | A negotiation each time, because the scope was the contract |
| What it needs from you | A method of measurement both sides accept, and someone to check the bills | A complete and frozen design before pricing |
| Where the risk sits | With you, on quantity | With the contractor, on scope - and priced in accordingly |
| Suits | Work where quantities will be confirmed as the job proceeds | A finished design that genuinely will not change |
05 — Sequence
How a contract runs.
No week counts here on purpose — on a site the duration is set by size, ground conditions and approvals. What each stage names instead is what governs its length.
Scope and rate agreement
Governed by how complete your drawings are. Quantities are taken off and priced item-wise with inclusions and exclusions written down - this is the only cheap place to settle an item nobody priced.
Mobilisation
Set by access, site establishment and the material schedule for the first stages. Delays here are usually access or approvals rather than labour availability.
Execution and daily records
Paced by the trades and by decision turnaround. A query raised and answered in a day costs nothing; the same query raised late stops a trade and everything queued behind it.
Measurement, billing and handover
Driven by the measurement method agreed at the start. Running bills raised against measured work mean payment tracks progress; reconstructed at the end, they track argument instead.
06 — Handover
What you should hold at handover.
- The site records - labour, material and progress - kept daily rather than assembled afterwards.
- Measurement sheets supporting every running bill and the final account.
- Test results wherever the specification required them.
- A snag list closed against your own checklist, agreed before work began.
07 — Questions
Common questions.
What is contract execution in construction?
Carrying out construction work to someone else's drawings and specification for an agreed price, with the contractor providing supervision, labour and site management. The design and the specification stay the client's; the execution and the site records are the contractor's responsibility.
What is the difference between item rate and lump sum contracting?
Item rate prices each element separately and bills against measured quantities, so the final figure follows the work actually done. Lump sum fixes one price for a defined scope, which suits a complete and frozen design but makes every change a negotiation.
What is a running bill?
An interim bill raised against work measured to date at the agreed rates, so payment tracks progress instead of arriving in one lump at the end. It is checkable precisely because it is measured rather than estimated.
Who supplies the material in a labour-and-material contract?
The contractor, at the rates agreed. In a labour-only contract the client supplies material and the contractor supplies labour and supervision. Which model applies changes the rates, the risk and who bears price movement, so it belongs in the contract explicitly.
How are delays handled?
By recording the cause when it happens. Delay caused by late decisions, late material supplied by the client, or restricted access is different in contractual terms from delay caused by the contractor - and a daily record is what lets anyone tell them apart afterwards.
What documentation should be handed over at completion?
The site records, measurement sheets supporting the final bill, test results where the specification required them, and the snag list closed against the client's checklist. Agreeing that list at the start is what makes completion a date rather than a discussion.
08 — Guides
Guides for this
kind of work.
09 — Also
The other work
we take on.
10 — Enquiry
Tell us about
the project.
Location, rough size and the stage you are at is enough to begin. We will come back with what we would need to quote it properly.
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