Site & delivery
cidb grading levels explained, against real adverts
Nine grades, nine ceilings. The grade that earns is the one that matches work actually on the board this week, not the one at the top of the table.
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Site & delivery
What actually happens between award and handover. Programme, subcontracting, quality, and the failures that show up on site rather than in a contract.
Site & delivery
When a municipal contract runs out of money at 95%
Johannesburg Water stopped a tower at 95% because the contract budget was exhausted, and the standing time is now somebody's to carry.
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Site & delivery
Where to find construction work in a R2 trillion pipeline
Of 263 projects worth R1,99 trillion, the 54 in documentation are the ones that become tenders. The 82 under construction are somebody else's order book.
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The Arabella Brief
What changed this week, and what it costs you on Monday.
One email on a Friday, covering the week from Friday to Thursday so the week is closed when it is written. What actually changed, everything with a date on it, one development run through what it means for a contractor with forty people, and what we got wrong. A thin week is a short issue.