CONSTRUCTION IS STRESSFUL.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE COMPLICATED.
Most construction projects start with a design and eventually arrive at a budget.
We start with both.
Tell us what you want to build, what it absolutely needs to achieve, and what you genuinely have available to spend.
We call it:
BUILD ABC FOR XYZ.
BUILD ABC FOR XYZ
ABC is what you want us to build.
XYZ is the budget genuinely available to make it happen.
Rather than designing a project, producing a lengthy Bill of Quantities, pricing hundreds of individual components and only then discovering whether the project fits the budget, we start with the financial reality.
We consider the design, structure, materials, construction methods, finishes and priorities together from the beginning.
You give us the destination and the number.
Our job is finding the smartest route between them.
TRANSPARENCY WORKS BOTH WAYS.
Everyone wants transparency from their builder.
We agree.
But shouldn't that work both ways?
Be straight with us about what you want, what matters most and what you genuinely have available to spend.
We'll be equally straightforward about what we believe can be achieved.
Including how our business makes money.
OUR TARGET IS A MINIMUM 25% GROSS MARGIN.
This is a simplified illustration of our commercial model. Our margin has to support the business and the risks involved in delivering the project.
If we cannot see a realistic way to deliver what has been agreed, protect the required outcome and maintain the margin our business needs, we'll say so.
And we won't undertake the project.
WE'D RATHER LOSE A PROJECT HONESTLY THAN WIN ONE WITH NUMBERS WE DON'T BELIEVE.
OUR MARGIN.OUR MOTIVATION.OUR RISK.
Once we've agreed the project and the budget, we have to make the two work together.
The better we plan, buy and build, the better our business performs.
If we're inefficient, waste materials, underestimate work we've agreed to deliver or simply get our sums wrong, our margin gets smaller.
We don't believe our mistakes should automatically become your variations.
Our commercial model gives us a very good reason to:
IF YOU CHANGE THE ABC,
WE MAY NEED TO REVISIT THE XYZ.
IF WE GET OUR SUMS WRONG,
THAT'S OUR PROBLEM.
There will always be genuine variations.
If the customer changes the size, scope, specification or agreed outcome, the budget may legitimately need to change.
But there is a difference between the customer changing the project and us incorrectly estimating work we already agreed to undertake.
CHEAPER ISN'T THE OBJECTIVE.
SMARTER IS.
Our job isn't to make your building as cheap as possible.
It's to deliver the agreed result as intelligently as possible.
Finding a more efficient construction method does not mean quietly reducing the specification or compromising the outcome we've agreed.
Efficiency is our opportunity.
Cutting corners isn't.
YOU SHOULDN'T HAVE TO PAY MORE
BECAUSE WE'RE INEFFICIENT.
LESS ADMIN.
MORE BUILDING.
We're modern builders with a fairly old-school attitude towards doing business.
Be fair.
Be straight.
Agree the deal.
Shake hands.
Get on with it.
That doesn't mean important things aren't documented.
Specifications, drawings, payments, responsibilities and genuine changes should be recorded where they need to be.
We simply don't believe in burying straightforward construction projects beneath unnecessary paperwork, meetings and administration.
SHAKE HANDS.
WRITE DOWN WHAT MATTERS.
GET ON WITH IT.
Paperwork should protect the project — not run it.
We'd rather spend our time solving problems and building.
YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW
HOW TO BUILD IT.
That's why you're talking to us.
You don't necessarily need a finished Bill of Quantities.
You don't need to know every material.
You don't need to have solved every construction detail before starting the conversation.
We'll take it from there.
GOT A PROJECT AND A NUMBER?
LET'S SEE IF THE TWO CAN WORK TOGETHER.
Tell us what you're trying to build, where you're building it, what matters most and the genuine budget you're prepared to put behind it. Then let us work out what's possible.
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