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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CIDB
Compliance
The cidb blacklist and the contract you already signed
The Minister counts 52 contractors off the cidb register against two in its first 22 years, and his number is already behind the gazette. Nobody writes to the client either way.
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Compliance
Five registers to check before a contractor starts
Four of the five checks that decide whether a contractor may lawfully work on your site are free, and most clients run only one of them.
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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.