The parts of the job
nobody writes down.
Practical writing for UK contractors on the paperwork that has to survive an inspection, the money that goes missing after practical completion, and the reason good site software still ends up unused by week three. No invented statistics, no product pitch buried in the argument, and a plain note wherever we are describing something Unibuild does not do.
Written for UK contractors.
Short and correct rather than long and padded. Every claim about the platform in these pieces links to the module page where you can check it.
LatestRAMS that hold upWhat an inspector is actually looking for in a risk assessment and method statement, and the difference between a document that exists and one that is doing its job.Read it →
Retention, and the money that goes missing after practical completionWhere cash quietly disappears between the last valuation and the release of the second half of retention, and the four dates that decide whether you ever see it.Read it →
Why field rollouts stall in week threeMost site software is not rejected. It is quietly outlived by the paper route nobody switched off. What the firms that got it to stick did differently.Read it →Guides and tools.
Longer reference pieces that get updated rather than replaced,
and one interactive checklist you can work through on a live project.
What we are writing next.
These are the subjects contractors have asked us to cover. If one of them would be useful to you, say so and we will send it to you when it publishes.
- 01Permits to work
- Hot work, confined space entry, work at height and lone working. When a permit is the right control, and when it is paperwork for its own sake.
- 02The insurance that lapsed
- What actually happens when a subcontractor's public liability cover expires mid-project, who carries the exposure, and why the renewal date belongs on the order rather than in somebody's calendar.
- 03Variations, and the ones that never got instructed
- The difference between a variation you can value and a favour you did in week four, and the record that decides which one it turns out to have been.
- 04What a QS actually needs from site
- Written from the commercial side of the wall: the four things that, if they arrived reliably, would remove most of the friction between the office and the job.
