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Practical guides for protecting construction margin
Written for UK builders and subcontractors. No fluff, no legalese: what to check, what to send, and how to keep the money you have earned.
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How to Write a JCT Variation Notice That Gets Paid
A step-by-step guide to writing a JCT variation notice: what to include, when to send it, example wording, and the mistakes that cost subcontractors money.
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Unpaid Variations: How Subcontractors Recover the Money They Are Owed
Most unpaid variations die from missing paperwork, not weak claims. A practical recovery process: find the scope change, price it, notify it, and escalate.
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Bid or No-Bid: How to Score a Construction Tender Before You Price It
A practical bid/no-bid framework for UK contractors and subcontractors: the risk signals to check before pricing a tender, and when walking away is the profit move.
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How Much Contingency Should a Construction Project Carry?
Flat 5% contingency is guesswork. How UK contractors size contingency from real risk drivers: design maturity, ground risk, contract terms and cost volatility.
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Five Subcontract Clauses That Quietly Eat Your Margin
Condition precedent notices, uncapped LADs, wide set-off rights: the amended subcontract clauses UK subcontractors miss at tender, and how to push back.
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