Cost & decisions
As-built drawings and handover, what you are owed
Britain has been consulting on a minimum handover pack. JBCC already obliges your contractor to hand one over, but leaves what is in it to your contract data.
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Quality & defects
Site & delivery
Structural steel shortage in South Africa, and the waivers
SAISC now backs tariff waivers one ITAC application at a time, and counts steel whose quality is still to be demonstrated as short.
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Compliance
Geyser drip tray requirement, and who pays without one
Refuse the tray, sign the amended quote, and the plumber's non-compliance note moves the cost of the next failure from their insurer to your cupboards.
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Compliance
Who may issue an electrical CoC in South Africa
A GreenCard is not a registration, and the PV installer holding one may have no statutory authority to do the electrical work on your roof.
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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.