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Site services

Power, water and welfare,
before the job starts.

The three services a site cannot open without, what each one costs to put in, and the compliance estate that sits behind them once it is running.

3 articles

Site services, in one place.

Temporary site services are priced as though they were plant hire and inspected as though they were a permanent installation, which is where firms in this business lose money. A temporary electrical supply is inspected on a three month cycle. A temporary water system needs disinfecting and sampling before anybody drinks from it. Welfare is a legal requirement with a named schedule behind it, not a courtesy.

These articles take one service each, and they are written from the operational end rather than the sales end. Unibuild has run a temporary site services business since 2016, which is where the detail comes from.

A line of operatives in hi-vis and hard hats on a slab, above a large reinforced deck under constructionSite services··9 min readSite welfare, and what Schedule 2 actually requiresToilets, washing, drinking water, somewhere to change and somewhere to sit down. The list is short, it is legally specific, and "so far as is reasonably practicable" does not apply to most of it.Read it →An electrician taking a reading at a distribution boardSite services··10 min readTemporary electrical supply, and the paperwork behind itWhy site power runs at 110 volts, what has to be inspected every three months, and why the isolation permit is the document that decides whether anybody is allowed to work on it.Read it →Water running from a chrome tapSite services··9 min readWhat a temporary water supply on site actually costsThe cost splits three ways, and only one of the three is the water. The connection is quoted, the consumption is metered, and the compliance is the part that gets left out of the price.Read it →

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