The QS team had priced the job. The contractor had approved it. Procurement had started. But two months in, materials were arriving… with nowhere to store them. Why? Because the BOQ was complete—but disconnected from the construction programme. We encountered this on a mixed-use project in Nairobi’s CBD. The quantity surveyor had completed a solid […]
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You’ve seen it before. A foreman opens a printed drawing from three weeks ago—one that’s already been revised twice. The consultant team issued the latest version, but it lives in someone’s inbox or cloud drive. No one printed it. No one marked the version. So site teams carry on, unaware. By the time the error
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Deadlines. They look great on a Gantt chart. They satisfy client boards. They even motivate teams—at first. But let’s be honest: deadlines don’t deliver projects. Decisions do. We once advised a commercial office development in Westlands where everything was “on time”—until it wasn’t. The architectural design was complete. Structural approvals secured. And yet, by the
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In the bustling world of construction, project teams are under constant pressure to deliver—faster, leaner, and cheaper. But behind the noise of approvals, mobilization, and timelines lies a quiet saboteur of success: poorly managed site instructions. Too many projects rely on verbal updates, WhatsApp conversations, or hurried instructions during site meetings to drive major execution
