Small Sites and Refurbishment Work
A house extension, an office fit-out, a shop refit. The same obligations with none of the infrastructure, and what is actually proportionate.
Analysis
In practice
Almost every failure here is a process decision rather than a technology problem, which is why replacing the system fixes none of them.
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Choosing a System
The questions that separate construction access products, which are mostly about the subcontract chain rather than about the hardware.
Procedure
Putting It In
A gate system arrives mid-project or at mobilisation, and the difference between those two decides how much of the difficulty is avoidable.
Procedure
How This Goes Wrong
The recurring failures on construction sites, each findable in a morning, each with a specific correction.
Analysis
Churn
Construction workforces change constantly, which is the condition every record in this collection has to survive. What the register shows about it and what to do.
Analysis
Programme Pressure
Every control in this collection is tested by the same force: a date that did not move when the work did. What that does, and where it shows up first.
Analysis
More Than One Site
Contractors run several projects with overlapping workforces and subcontractors. What can be shared, what cannot, and where the assumptions go wrong.
Analysis
Where to Start
A first month that establishes what the site actually knows, in an order that finds the important gaps before any purchase.
Procedure
Who Owns the Register
The recurring work a site workforce system generates, what decays first without it, and why naming one person prevents most of the failures in this collection.
Analysis
Mobilisation
The weeks before anybody is on site, when everything in this collection is cheap to arrange and after which all of it becomes a change programme.
Procedure
Phase Changes
A site becomes a different place several times during a project, and every record built for the previous version quietly stops describing it.
Analysis
Recovering a Site That Has Lost Control of Its Register
A running project where nobody trusts the numbers, enrolment has stalled and exceptions have become the process. A quarter to fix it, without new hardware.
Procedure
Reading a Supplier's Claims
The recurring phrases in this market, what each usually means, and the question that makes it checkable before the contract is signed.
Reference
The First Ninety Days
What to watch after a new arrangement starts, when problems are cheap to fix and everybody is deciding whether it is real.
Procedure
The Thing You Are Spending
Every control here depends on cooperation from people who work for somebody else and gain nothing from complying. What buys it, what spends it, and how the loss shows.
Analysis