Guidance

Specifying specialist packages.

Written for architects, designers, cost consultants and main contractors deciding how a specialist package should be specified, tendered and controlled.

No sales material. Each guide sets out what governs the outcome and where projects usually lose time.

Specialist element being prepared in the workshop

Reading

Written for the people specifying the work.

GRG, GRP and GRC: choosing the correct architectural material

The three materials are written interchangeably in specifications more often than any other group. They are not interchangeable, and the wrong choice usually surfaces after the moulds are made.

6 minute read

What a specialist-package tender must define

When specialist tender returns vary by a wide margin, the tender document is usually the reason, not the market.

5 minute read

Why full-size mock-ups matter on complex architectural packages

A mock-up moves the argument forward by six months. That is its whole value, and it is why the ones that get cut are usually missed later.

4 minute read

Coordinating decorative ceilings with structure and MEP

The ceiling is the most contested plane in the building. Everything that has to be hidden goes above it, and everything the client notices happens below it.

5 minute read

What factory quality control should happen before shipment

A defect found in the workshop costs an hour. The same defect found on site costs a week, and often an argument about who pays for the crane.

5 minute read

Send your specification

Send the drawings and the specification.

Send the package drawings, the specification and the programme date. We will confirm what is buildable as drawn, what needs development and what we would need to see before pricing.

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