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What a clash actually costs
A clash found in the model costs an hour of a coordinator's time. The same clash found on site costs a fortnight. Here is the arithmetic we use to justify the BIM team.
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Pouring concrete in a Riyadh summer
At 46 °C, concrete does not wait for you. Ice, night pours, and the retarder dosage that saved a 900 m³ raft.
Reem Al-Dossary · Chief Operating Officer27 May 20265 min - Opinion
The look-ahead that actually works
Most three-week look-aheads are a Gantt chart with the dates changed. Ours asks one question the master programme cannot answer.
Reem Al-Dossary · Chief Operating Officer14 April 20264 min - Company
Zero LTI is not luck
Four years without a lost-time incident across 6.4 million man-hours. The boring practices that got us there, and the metric we distrust.
Sara Binmahfouz · Director of HSE9 March 20265 min - Opinion
Why we price risk openly
Hiding contingency in the rates wins tenders and loses projects. A note on showing clients the number they least want to see.
Khalid Nasser · Commercial Director2 February 20264 min