Awarding a structural package is one of the higher-risk decisions on a Sydney build. The formwork subcontractor sets the floor cycle, and the floor cycle sets the programme. Get it wrong and you spend the next twelve months managing standing time,...
FRP in construction means form, reo and pour — the three trades that build a concrete structure. Form is the temporary mould, reo is the steel reinforcement fixed inside it, and pour is the concrete placed, compacted and cured within...
Every large-scale project reaches a point where the programme stops being a plan and starts being a problem. A wet fortnight, a late design package, a slow start out of the ground, and suddenly there are weeks to find. The question that follows...
Walk a large-scale project at its busiest and most of what you can see will not be there at the end. Formwork panels, temporary supports, bracing, edge protection and access platforms fill the site, get stripped floor by floor and eventually leave...
On large-scale projects, even the best structural programme can come unstuck if the people building it aren’t talking to each other. The drawings might be spot on, the materials ordered and the crews highly skilled, yet one message that never lands, or an update...
On large-scale projects, productivity rarely comes down to how fast any single trade can work. It comes down to how well the work is ordered. The structural package sets the pace for everything that follows, and the order in which form, reo and...
