0:00 hi guys welcome back this is module 2
0:02 Master Builders how to secure the best
0:05 team and prepare for construction and
0:07 through these steps we're going to show
0:08 you how we save our clients tens of
0:10 thousands of pounds and we're giving it
0:11 to you completely free so we're working
0:13 through the three modules dream me
0:14 Planet the ultimate foundation for your
0:16 project Master Builders how to secure
0:19 the best team and prepare for
0:20 construction and from ground to Glory
0:21 bringing your project to life so you've
0:25 completed the first module which was
0:26 dream it planet where we touched on
0:28 setting out your budget securing the
0:30 best uh plot of land for you and how to
0:32 negotiate that deal defining your vision
0:35 and estimating your costs achieving
0:37 planning permission and raising funds so
0:40 that was just a quick recap of what
0:41 we've covered and now we're going into
0:43 Master Builders how to secure the best
0:44 team and prepare for
0:47 construction so by going through this
0:49 we've helped our client sha in Pickin
0:51 who's a developer save 40,000 pounds on
0:54 design fees and placing orders with
0:56 contractors across multiple projects is
0:58 an experienced uh developer he's
1:01 International developer he's been in
1:03 Australia UK Spain and even Thailand
1:06 doing projects and he uses us to help
1:09 him secure the best designers and
1:11 contractors for his projects locally in
1:13 our area and we've saved him in excess
1:15 of
1:15 40,000 we've also helped Jenny in nton
1:18 save in excess of 20,000 by getting the
1:21 correct contractors on her large
1:23 extension it was about1 120,000 PS worth
1:25 of work and we saved a fast about of
1:28 money by getting the right people on
1:29 board and negotiating the correct
1:31 contract to make sure she wasn't hit by
1:33 variation after variation as the
1:35 construction Works went through and she
1:37 ended up with a large kitchen extension
1:38 for her
1:39 family to enjoy now we're going through
1:42 this master build road map and now we're
1:45 at step six so we're going to go through
1:47 these five steps today which starts at
1:50 step six so we've got planning your
1:51 build so we're going to show you how to
1:53 think about how to lay out a plan for
1:54 your build in terms of making sure all
1:56 the elements that you need to think
1:58 about laid out in a plan or program of
2:00 works and it's scheduled out so you've
2:02 got some sort of start and end date and
2:05 a plan of how that sequence of works is
2:06 going to get carried out then we've got
2:09 step seven securing building control
2:11 warranties and utilities and we're going
2:12 to talk about why it's so important to
2:13 keep this on the radar to making sure
2:15 that you're getting them on board at the
2:17 correct times to make sure that you
2:19 don't have to redo anything or you get
2:22 costs because you've done it in the
2:23 wrong sequence and then we're going to
2:25 go to step eight which is securing the
2:27 best contractors and materials for your
2:28 project and I know you're all want to
2:30 know how to do this this is a question
2:31 that we get asked all the time and we
2:33 save tens of thousands of pounds
2:35 hundreds of thousands of pounds through
2:36 this stage I've saved millions of pounds
2:39 throughout my career by getting this bit
2:41 nailed and done it correctly we're going
2:42 to tell you how to do that in Step eight
2:45 and step nine is all about project
2:46 management CDM health and safety
2:48 requirements and making sure you're on
2:50 the right side of the law and we're
2:51 going to explain what you need to think
2:53 about and consider and the things that
2:56 you need in place before you start on
2:57 site and then the last one is Step 10
2:59 prepare preparing site ready for
3:00 construction we're going to talk about
3:02 why it's important to prepare your site
3:04 ready for construction so you set up in
3:06 an effective way to make sure you
3:08 logistically run the site correctly and
3:10 don't incur costs that you don't need to
3:13 incur so that's a quick overview of what
3:15 we're going to go through and let's get
3:18 into it so step six is planning your
3:20 build so what you need to do here is sit
3:22 down as a team so by this point you've
3:24 probably got a couple of professionals
3:26 involved or you've got experience so you
3:28 need to sit down as a team and plan out
3:30 where you are currently and how are you
3:32 going to get to the completion of this
3:34 project whether you're doing one build
3:37 uh single property or whether you doing
3:39 multiple properties you need to have a
3:42 rough idea of how you're going to carry
3:43 out that sequence of works so how are
3:45 you going to do the procurement phase
3:47 how you going to do the delivery phase
3:49 and you're going to set set that out in
3:51 a program of works like this one where
3:53 this is a a piece of software that we've
3:56 used we use multiple softwares to carry
3:58 out these sort of programs we can in
4:00 Excel we can use uh Microsoft all
4:03 different programs available to you
4:05 online and what we do is we list out all
4:07 the elements of work that we need to
4:09 think about and then we lay it out in a
4:12 bar chart and this takes us through
4:14 right to the completion of the project
4:16 and what this does it arms us with the
4:17 knowledge of knowing when to do that
4:20 element of the work so by putting this
4:23 down on a plan it enables us to program
4:26 the works correctly and also you
4:29 understand how how the finances need to
4:30 be released um etc for cash flows and
4:34 all all these um things that you need to
4:36 think about when you're carrying out
4:37 construction project so you want to get
4:41 round the table with all the people that
4:42 are involved and map this out the best
4:44 you can using as much of the PE of the
4:46 professionals experience to make sure
4:48 that you've got a robust plan for your
4:50 build project and then you want to be
4:53 getting your construction detail drawing
4:54 drawings done by your architect so
4:56 touched on the different drawings that
4:58 you're going to get from your architect
4:59 once you get this stage you're going to
5:00 instruct them to carry out the detailed
5:02 drawings for construction to get through
5:05 building control and warranty providers
5:06 and why do we do this because we want to
5:08 get the drawings ready to get them
5:09 approved by build control and we want to
5:11 put them in the tender packages that
5:13 we're going to send out to the
5:14 contractors to price because by doing
5:16 this we get much more robust price from
5:19 the contractor so when we get to site
5:21 we're not going to get hit for
5:22 variations because variations are going
5:24 to cost you money that you can't see and
5:25 once you place an order with a
5:27 contractor and you're going for
5:28 variations that element of work
5:30 typically cost more than if if you had
5:33 negotiated it into his initial price so
5:37 the construction detail drawings or the
5:40 building control drawings will look like
5:41 this you'll have a bit more detail on
5:43 there sections through the building
5:44 showing the details of the foundations
5:46 the structure of the wall how the roof
5:48 elements are put together listing out
5:50 the different elements that are on there
5:52 that need to be included in the prices
5:54 that you're getting back from your
5:55 contractors such as details where you've
5:58 got D windows and how how that detail
6:00 connects into the pitch roof all this
6:03 information will be on your construction
6:04 detail drawings or your building control
6:06 drawings so the building control
6:08 warranty providers and your Builders
6:10 understand how this building is going to
6:11 get put together it's not just going to
6:13 be what the building is going to look
6:15 like it's going to be how the elements
6:16 are going to be put together and the
6:17 construction details it's going to take
6:19 to do that and this enables the design
6:22 the uh contractors to Pro price that
6:24 information and allow for the correct uh
6:27 pieces of Timber block work whatever it
6:30 may be needed or required to carry out
6:32 that build within their
6:34 price and then what once you've got your
6:37 program of work set out this enables you
6:39 to do a procurement strategy so some of
6:41 you will be going for a main contractor
6:44 and uh if you're a developer you might
6:45 be just going for a m contractor and get
6:47 them to do all the works but for those
6:49 of you who are doing self builds even
6:52 developers you may be splitting it down
6:53 into specialized packages because it's
6:55 more cost effective now there is health
6:57 and safety uh and CDM regulation
7:00 complications when you do this but there
7:01 is means and ways to get around that and
7:03 it depends on your particular situation
7:05 so I can't give too much um uh guidance
7:10 here but can I can just say whichever
7:11 way you go for is possible you just got
7:14 to be mindful of the health and safety
7:17 um layout of how how we structure your
7:19 your setup but this is called the
7:23 procurement strategy so what we're doing
7:25 here is we getting the program of works
7:26 that you've carried out and listed all
7:29 the elements works that are to be done
7:31 on that project and then you can put the
7:33 start date of that element that works in
7:35 here and what this does then is for so
7:39 if we go for worst treatment here line
7:40 two worst treatment so we're staying it
7:43 started it needed to start on the 25th
7:45 of November 2024 so we said there was a
7:47 four-week leading for the
7:50 laborers so for the labor for that
7:53 element of the work so that means is
7:55 it's going to take four weeks for the
7:56 guys to get to site once you give them a
7:58 notice to commence
8:00 so you're basically saying yes we're
8:02 ready for you to start the worst
8:03 treatment in four weeks time they're
8:05 then going to PL you into their diary
8:07 but they need four weeks notice to
8:09 enable them to get on site on on the
8:11 correct day and then this is your
8:13 material leading so it's going to take
8:15 eight weeks from uh ordering the
8:18 material for that material to be
8:19 delivered to site so you've got an 8we
8:21 leading there and then you've got two
8:23 weeks to design so some items of work
8:26 will have elements to design it so this
8:28 is a wor treatment plan so normally it's
8:30 a specialist L designed thing sometimes
8:32 your engineers can design it they give
8:34 you an outline design and then the
8:36 specialist will will finish the design
8:38 as per the engineers outline if you like
8:41 so sometimes you've got a design period
8:43 that needs to be captured in this uh
8:46 schedule and this then gives you a total
8:49 leading time of 10 weeks which doesn't
8:52 take into account the four because the
8:53 four actually is Incorporated in this
8:55 element the four is more to make sure
8:58 you give them the four weeks notes to
9:00 start on site but because you've got an
9:01 8we leading time that's more than the
9:03 four so you don't have to be concerned
9:05 about adding the four onto the eight and
9:07 the two so this gives you a 10 we
9:09 leading time from um when you place the
9:12 order for them to do the design get the
9:14 material and be on
9:16 site so by doing this you can see it
9:20 Maps out when you need to place the
9:22 order and then we go back one more step
9:24 so you're giving yourself two weeks to
9:26 evaluate the tenders after they've been
9:28 returned so that means you've got to get
9:30 the tenders back on the 2nd of September
9:33 to give you two weeks to place the order
9:34 on the 16th of September and then once
9:37 again youve given yourself two weeks for
9:40 the T or you've given the the
9:41 contractors two weeks to price the job
9:44 sometimes you give them three or four
9:45 weeks depending on how much information
9:46 you're going to give them but two weeks
9:48 is a good guidance for somebody to turn
9:51 up around the price four weeks and
9:52 forget about it if you give them two
9:53 weeks and put it in the diary and if you
9:55 chase them up you tend tend to get a
9:56 good uh return rate and and then that
10:00 two weeks takes you to the 19th of
10:02 August so you need to send the inquiry
10:05 out to them on the 19th of August giving
10:07 them two weeks to return on the 2 so it
10:10 gives you two weeks to do the analysis
10:12 and place the order on the 16th to make
10:14 sure they're on site on the 25th of
10:15 November and then to go back to the
10:18 beginning step you've given yourself one
10:20 week to pull the information together so
10:22 you need to be pulling the information
10:24 together on the 12th of August giving
10:25 yourself a week to colate the full
10:27 tender to send it out uh for a tender
10:30 inquiry on the 19th so then they can
10:32 return on the 2nd of September you can
10:34 then do the analysis and see who you're
10:35 going to work with and place your within
10:37 two weeks on 16th of September to make
10:40 sure they're on site on the 25th of
10:41 November and this is all drop dead dates
10:44 obviously when you do these schedules
10:46 you actually want to beat these dates
10:47 but this is the worst case scenario you
10:49 need to have you drop dead dates here uh
10:52 to make sure that you're sending your
10:54 tenders out or preparing to send your
10:55 tenders out on time but of course if
10:59 say if you're carrying this out in early
11:01 2024 which we were then we're going to
11:04 try and stay in front of the curve and
11:05 get all these complete even before the
11:07 drop dead dates but it's good practice
11:09 to do this to make you aware of when you
11:11 need to be doing the information very
11:14 final date if you
11:16 like and then we use this tracking sheet
11:19 also to track who we're sending the
11:21 information out to so this was Timber
11:23 frames we sent out to multiple
11:24 contractors we had their email addresses
11:26 here you put the contact names in this
11:28 ele uh in this column
11:30 here the contact numbers the location of
11:33 them uh the social or the website or the
11:36 social media site and then issue date of
11:40 the of the tender going out to them goes
11:42 in there and then once they come back
11:43 with any information such as this one
11:45 did they said they only worked in Corall
11:47 so we took them out ignore the colors
11:48 that was something I Ed myself you don't
11:51 have to worry too much about that um and
11:55 then once you start getting the return
11:56 dates you put the return dates in here
11:58 and you could put their overall price in
11:59 there but that isn't the full price
12:01 because you need to read the terms and
12:02 conditions and and the the inclusions
12:04 and exclusions but you can put the
12:06 higher level price in there just to get
12:07 a feel for who's in the running and
12:09 who's not so tip one here is to use a
12:12 professional to help you map out this
12:14 process logically using their experience
12:16 so now if you haven't done many
12:17 construction projects you probably don't
12:19 have uh the knowledge to map out the
12:22 process correctly if you're a developer
12:24 you you you might be thinking I don't
12:26 need know all this detail because I'm
12:27 just going to go over a main contractor
12:29 but you need to know roughly when
12:30 they're starting on site and when
12:31 they're going to complete especially if
12:33 you're getting finan because they're
12:34 going to want to know roughly when
12:36 they're releasing the money so it's key
12:37 really that you use a professional to
12:39 get a good project plan put in place uh
12:42 and use somebody who's got experience
12:44 tip two getting getting construction
12:48 detail drawings done ASAP and like I
12:50 said this is going to help you get
12:52 approval for building control your
12:54 warranty providers and also you want the
12:56 detailed drawings to go in your tenders
12:59 to make sure that your contractors are
13:01 pricing the detailed information that
13:02 you're going to build to so when you
13:04 place the order you're not getting hit
13:05 for variations when you bring in new
13:07 information into the fold because what
13:09 happens when you place the order just
13:11 make it round numbers make it easy for
13:13 £100,000 all of a sudden you give them
13:15 two or three drawings that they didn't
13:16 have which shows all these different
13:18 details which they haven't allowed for
13:20 and then all of a sudden you're getting
13:22 variations that you could have avoided
13:24 if you'd have had that information
13:26 included in the order and tip three the
13:29 project plan should be updated weekly as
13:31 things unfold through the procurement
13:33 stage and build stages so as you go
13:35 through the procurement stage and you're
13:37 getting feedback from your contractors
13:40 subcontractors on lead times their
13:43 availability you can then adapt your uh
13:46 project plan to to the feedback and keep
13:50 everybody in the project in tune with
13:52 what's going on and where we currently
13:53 are against the project plan so now
13:56 we're going to step seven secure
13:57 building control
13:59 Insurance
14:01 um and warranties I think it's a bit of
14:04 a spelling mistake there building oh
14:05 sorry secure building Insurance building
14:07 control warranties and
14:09 utilities so why do we need to do this
14:12 so first of all that's a trench with the
14:13 mall in on quite a large game that I was
14:15 involved in now you need to know you
14:18 need to get building control and you
14:19 what Utilities in your warranty sorted
14:21 early doors so you know when they're
14:23 going to be coming in so you want
14:25 building control and you warrant is as
14:27 soon as you know you're starting on site
14:28 you want to be talking with them guys
14:30 sending them your drawings and ideally
14:32 getting them to approve your drawings so
14:35 that you know that you can build to them
14:36 drawings and as long as you build them
14:37 drawings you've met their requirements
14:39 and they're just going to come out
14:40 periodically at certain uh stages
14:43 throughout the build typically when you
14:45 pull the foundations when you P the
14:47 foundations when you get up to DPC level
14:49 uh when you get up to your first floor
14:51 height when you get up to your roof
14:53 plate when you go water tight all these
14:56 stages they'll come out and they'll tell
14:57 you when they need to come out and you
14:58 just need need to make sure they're
14:59 coming out on time but we get them
15:01 involved early doors now to have them on
15:03 board to approve your drawings to make
15:05 sure that you can build them drawings so
15:07 then drawings are going to need tender
15:09 packs uh out to your uh uh your
15:12 contractors so these have been approved
15:14 by your building control uh ideally if
15:16 you've had if you've had enough time to
15:17 do that so you know that them tenders
15:19 are robust and when you place some
15:21 orders as long as you build as per the
15:23 orders as per the information that
15:25 you've given them you're going to get it
15:26 signed off by building control and your
15:27 warranty providers
15:29 and this is just another share trench
15:31 where we've got uh Services coming in
15:33 and you want to know when your utilities
15:34 are coming in because if you are doing
15:36 development you need to know when you're
15:38 going to get your power on and when you
15:39 can do your commissioning and he can
15:40 finish your
15:41 handovers Etc so you can uh go a little
15:45 bit too early with this so if if your
15:48 utilities you if you've got quite a long
15:50 program uh say a year long or two year
15:52 long depending on how big your scheme is
15:55 a year is probably realistic in most
15:57 cases then you might want to wait till
16:01 six month into your build before you
16:02 speak to your utilities guys because
16:04 sometimes once you place an order with
16:05 the utilities guys they have got to put
16:08 that install in within six month
16:10 otherwise you have to go back for a
16:11 requote which sometimes costs you a
16:14 little bit of money uh but it's always
16:16 good to get the prices off them and get
16:17 a quote off them because then you know
16:19 how much it's going to cost you can
16:21 understand what their lead time is uh
16:23 and you just need to keep it on your
16:24 radar because the last thing you want to
16:25 do is not get this put in at the right
16:27 time uh and have to do uh additional
16:30 Works to get into the
16:32 building so like I've touched on there
16:34 you also need to think about your
16:36 building insurance so most of your
16:38 self-builders you need to get building
16:40 Insurance all contractors developers
16:41 you're going to need to get building
16:43 insurance this is to ensure you against
16:46 any accidents that are happening on on
16:48 the building works from uh anyone
16:51 working on the site or that may get
16:53 affected by uh the works from the site
16:56 and this is to protect you and also
16:58 protects the warranty providers and and
17:01 the lenders if they're lending the money
17:02 and there's things that happen accidents
17:04 that happen and there's works that need
17:06 to be rectified cost of those accidents
17:08 such as I don't know a dumper driving a
17:10 knocking down a wall all these
17:12 insurances need to be in place the
17:14 insurances are going to want to know how
17:15 much your build cost are estimated to be
17:18 what's the value of the property at the
17:19 end and what's the period of time it's
17:21 going to take you to carry out the works
17:23 hence why getting your program and your
17:25 plan and all the rest of it done at that
17:27 stage is key so you can give them the
17:29 information also as I've touched on you
17:31 want to get approved drawings so you
17:33 want to send your detailed drawings to
17:34 the building control and the warranty
17:36 providers to get their approval so you
17:38 know when they're going out in the
17:39 tender packs and you're getting them
17:40 prices returned you're placing the
17:42 orders against a robust set of
17:44 information all you're going to do is
17:46 then monitor that as it comes out the
17:47 ground that it's getting built as per
17:50 those drawings and you won't have any
17:52 problems getting sign off from your
17:53 building control and warranty providers
17:55 so tip one get the prices for your
17:57 building insurance based on your program
17:59 and the value of your bill
18:01 costs tip two is provide your drains to
18:04 building control for their approval this
18:06 is also to warranty providers and also
18:09 include
18:10 it in get the detail drawings included
18:12 in your contract is tender packs so you
18:14 get robust prices back from them and tip
18:17 three is send your drawings to your
18:18 warranty provider to seek their approval
18:20 as well I think this was in the same
18:22 this is one of the ter tips maybe uh and
18:24 it just make sure that it gets a robust
18:26 quotation back from them and
18:29 that everything's Ticky Boo and going to
18:30 get signed
18:31 off so step eight secure the best
18:34 contractors and materials for your
18:37 project so tip one is get prices uh for
18:40 your building Insurance based on your
18:42 program and the value of your Bild cost
18:44 as I've touched on that's why it's
18:45 important to get your program done so
18:47 you understand the length of time that
18:48 you're going to be on site and then you
18:50 can secure your insurance based on the
18:52 value of your build costs and final
18:55 value of the building and also the
18:57 period that you're going to be on site
18:59 sometimes it's good practice to give
19:00 yourself an extra three months in that
19:02 quotation uh just in case there's any
19:04 delays on site but that's completely up
19:06 to
19:07 you and then the next tip is provide
19:10 your drawings to building control for
19:12 their approval before proceeding to have
19:14 contractors price them so if you've got
19:15 the time it's good practice to get all
19:17 your drawings signed off by a building
19:18 control before you send them out to your
19:21 um contractors to price but it depends
19:23 how much time you've got but if you've
19:24 got the time do this because then you
19:26 know the information that you sent to
19:27 the contractors is going to get uh he
19:30 going to give you it's going to give the
19:32 information that you're actually going
19:32 to build up and there's going to be no
19:34 variation from them uh hopefully tip
19:38 three send your drawings to your
19:40 warranty provider to seek their approval
19:42 and obtain a robust quotation to place
19:44 an order so you want to send your
19:45 drawings to your warranty provider tell
19:47 them the build cost the value of the
19:48 building once it's complete and this is
19:50 going to give them the information that
19:51 they need to provide you a quotation for
19:53 providing a warranty for your build and
19:56 this is why it's important to get
19:57 warranties on your building because
19:59 if you want to sell that building in the
20:02 future every mortgage company is going
20:04 to want a warranty so that's why it's
20:06 important some people you get these
20:08 horror stories that they start building
20:10 they come out the ground and they
20:11 haven't had a warranty provider involved
20:14 all of a sudden they've run out of money
20:16 and then they need to get a warranty to
20:18 raise uh finance and they haven't got to
20:20 provide it and then they're in that
20:22 catch 22 where they haven't done what
20:24 they needed to do and basically they
20:26 can't get a warranty and it's a very
20:29 uh dire situation to be in so it's
20:32 crucial that you get your warranty uh
20:36 signed uh you warranty in place before
20:38 you carry out your project uh for one of
20:40 a better phrase so step eight securing
20:44 the best contractors and materials for
20:45 your
20:46 project so to do this you need to send
20:49 out tender inquiries so if you haven't
20:52 got experiencing this I'm telling you
20:54 now I'm I've I've done I've delivered
20:57 over I've been involved in Del living
20:58 over 200 million pound worth of work and
21:00 the main part of that or a key part of
21:03 that was me pulling the tender inquiries
21:05 together and sending them out and with
21:08 Decades of experience now under myel
21:11 this is a fine art that you learn over a
21:13 process of times and the bigger and more
21:17 complex your project the harder it
21:19 becomes and this is where you need to
21:21 get professionals involved if you
21:23 haven't got an experience you need
21:25 professional involves here otherwise
21:26 this is where you're going to lose a lot
21:28 of money by doing this incorrectly and
21:30 getting into disputes by doing this
21:32 correctly you avoid disputes everybody
21:34 knows what they're doing and you get a a
21:37 a good set of prices back from your um
21:39 contractors that you can place robust
21:42 orders against so and what and inside
21:46 this you can have like bills of
21:48 quantities so this is a Bild of
21:49 quantities for a groundworks for a job I
21:51 was involved in and it lists out all the
21:54 elements of work that they're going to
21:55 price so depending on the size of your
21:57 scheme is the more the more information
21:58 that they're going to be getting and
22:01 then what this enables you to do is once
22:02 you get the prices back here we've done
22:04 analysis look the pricing schedule that
22:07 we're going to give you will be like
22:09 this and what we've got here is what we
22:10 had in originally for our tender
22:12 allowance so this could be what your
22:14 estimator or Qs and priced it at so your
22:16 allowance in and then what the actual
22:18 rates are coming back from your
22:19 contractors and like I've said before
22:22 the pricing schedules give you the
22:25 detail that you need to be able to
22:26 negotiate better prices so so you can go
22:29 pick prices out of the most um you know
22:32 expensive contractors where they're
22:34 cheaper than the most competitive
22:35 contractor and use them rates to
22:37 negotiate the most competitive
22:39 contractor down on certain elements to
22:41 bring him even more competitive and get
22:44 massive savings and I've done this
22:46 several times I've done this on every
22:49 project I've work on and and it just
22:51 saves you tens of thousands of pounds if
22:52 you do it correctly depending on the
22:53 size of your project you're on but this
22:56 process is is key to to avoiding wasting
23:00 thousands of pounds make sure you got
23:02 professional help in you at this
23:04 point and then you need to be placing
23:07 contracts so depending on the size of
23:09 your scheme you can be doing bport
23:11 projects if you're doing self builds
23:13 depending on the type of contractor
23:15 you're using are you using uh main
23:17 contractors are you using uh specialist
23:20 contractors and and project managing and
23:22 breaking it down into smaller project
23:25 packages to get better value for your
23:27 money and then if you're developers
23:29 you're using main contracts and if
23:30 you're doing big schemes you want to
23:31 think about doing JCT contracts or NEC
23:34 contracts I would probably say JCT
23:36 contracts uh are more favorable for for
23:40 the type of build you're doing NEC a
23:41 more government govern government driven
23:43 sort of contract and it's more of
23:45 working together but the're very hard to
23:47 administer so JCT is much easier to
23:50 administer and it gives you a lot of
23:52 protection and it also gives protection
23:54 to the contractors that you've got an
23:56 obligation to pay them it should the
23:58 works get carried out um contracts need
24:01 to be in place but if you employ the
24:03 correct people you can place a contract
24:05 and you don't have to get it out and
24:07 argue over it you know the whole whole
24:09 point is having a contract in place so
24:11 everybody knows what they're doing but
24:13 actually you want to have the contract
24:14 and just make sure that you do what it
24:16 says in the contract for for your UH
24:19 responsibilities and the contractor does
24:21 their responsibilities and you never
24:23 really have to go back and revisit the
24:25 contract after it's signed and agreed
24:27 but it's important that you have a in
24:28 place because it protects you you know
24:30 the larger the the scheme the more
24:32 complex you need these in place uh and
24:35 also if you are doing designs uh if you
24:38 are doing uh developments you some of
24:40 the elements of work will need
24:42 warranties provided um so there might be
24:45 design elements with warranties and and
24:47 that's easier to tie them in and get
24:49 them included in the contracts and
24:51 that's something you need to include
24:53 when you're placing the orders you don't
24:54 want to be trying to agree a warranty
24:56 being included after you place the order
24:58 order because the contract that will
25:00 have not price of that so that's an
25:02 extra so if you
25:03 negotiating it in the um original
25:06 contract before you place the order with
25:08 them you'll find it much easier because
25:09 I've been on projects where previous con
25:13 uh previous contract administrators
25:15 haven't included the warranties and then
25:16 we've had to go back at the end of the
25:18 project when it's nearly finished and
25:19 ask contractors for warranties and the
25:22 you know it's very hard to get them if
25:24 you've not got included in the contract
25:26 documents if you've got it included in
25:27 the contract contract documents it's
25:29 much easier because you can withhold
25:30 payment until obviously the warrant are
25:32 provided and then you're going to get
25:35 yourself a schedule of materials so all
25:39 depends on if you're you're breaking it
25:41 down and ordering the materials you set
25:42 yourself to save money but if you are
25:44 you want schedule of the material so you
25:45 need the measurement of all the elements
25:47 that you need and you can send this
25:48 scheduled to
25:49 suppliers and you can get them to price
25:52 it and by giving them full schedule with
25:54 all the materials required for your
25:56 project you're going to get the best
25:58 prices back so it's called the best
26:00 buying game so the more you buy from
26:03 that one um Merchant the the better
26:08 price he going to give you so you're
26:09 going to be able to negotiate the best
26:11 discounts and you can send this out to
26:12 four or five people locally and then you
26:14 can put them next to each other and
26:16 check each other's rates and see who's
26:18 the cheapest on different elements and
26:20 try to do uh a global uh deal with one
26:23 person negotiating him down where he's a
26:25 bit expensive on different elements of
26:27 the material
26:30 and then you want to be going out and
26:32 vetting your your um your contractors
26:35 especially if you haven't work with them
26:36 the before we tell our clients we vet
26:39 them by checking um getting contact
26:42 details for people have worked with
26:44 previously give them a call see what
26:46 it's like been dealing with them and
26:48 then we will send our clients out to
26:50 look at projects that they've previously
26:52 finished uh that are similar to the
26:54 project we're doing it ideally and then
26:56 go and speak to the people who own that
26:58 property or at least go and look at the
27:01 properties and check the quality of it
27:02 to make sure that the people that you're
27:04 dealing with are going to be um
27:07 sufficient to carry out your project to
27:09 the correct standard on time and within
27:11 budget so tip one use a professional to
27:14 help you execute the procurement plan to
27:16 obtain the best quotations for your
27:18 project so it's key to get a
27:19 professional involved to make sure you
27:21 procure your job professionally and you
27:23 wrap up your contracts to make sure that
27:25 you limit your risks going into your
27:29 your construction phase and tip two
27:31 place your orders with your suppliers to
27:33 get the best prices so place your orders
27:36 we suppliers to get the best prices and
27:38 issue contracts to your contractors
27:40 early to ensure you get them booked in
27:42 yeah so what I'm saying here
27:44 is get you get your prices back and once
27:47 you know you're doing going with them
27:48 place your orders as quickly as you can
27:50 why because you're securing the prices
27:52 because prices do what they only go one
27:54 way they go up typically unless you have
27:56 a blacks one event such as
27:58 covid Etc sometimes they go flying up
28:01 and then the set a little bit come down
28:03 but I'll tell you now from my
28:06 experience all the time prices are going
28:08 up so the quicker that you can secure
28:10 the price that it's at the better and
28:13 you can do this with your suppliers and
28:15 they can stock it up into their yard and
28:17 then you can just call it off when
28:18 you're ready or if you've got a lot of
28:20 room on site and a secure place to put
28:23 it uh that it's clean and tidy depending
28:26 on what that material is you can have it
28:27 delivered to site and it's secure on
28:29 site and in place and it's going to get
28:31 you your best buying gains and by
28:32 placing your orders with your
28:33 contractors early they've got a good
28:35 understanding of when they're going to
28:37 be starting on site and they can get
28:39 booked you you booked into the diary
28:41 rather than waiting till the last minute
28:43 and then tip free ensure that you thly
28:45 vet your contractors to make before
28:48 awarding them with any contracts to make
28:50 sure that you're heading into contract
28:51 with somebody it that you can trust and
28:53 you know that they're going to be carry
28:54 out the works as expected to the correct
28:57 standard on time
28:58 and they're going to be easy to deal
29:00 with so then we're moving on now to step
29:03 nine which is project management and CDM
29:05 health and safety
29:07 requirements
29:08 so you have got a legal requirement
29:11 whether yourself Builder or developer to
29:13 make sure the health and safety on your
29:15 s's carried out depending on what
29:16 position you're in is how much of a
29:18 responsibility you've got but under the
29:19 CDM regulations all clients developers
29:21 Etc got responsibilities I'm not going
29:24 to go into the complete uh uh all the
29:28 detail about this but I'm going to give
29:29 you a good overview so you need to have
29:31 your pre-construction information pulled
29:33 together this is where the site's going
29:34 to be what works getting carried out on
29:36 the site you know you need to know the
29:38 local hospital names and you need to be
29:40 making people aware of the specific
29:42 risks associated with that site so that
29:45 they can carry out their own risk
29:47 assessments and produce method
29:48 statements for their works and should
29:50 anybody have an accident they then know
29:53 the process of what they need to go
29:54 through to get to the local hospitals
29:56 Etc so you're going to have site rules
29:58 listed in here so your general site
30:00 rules so this is going to be different
30:02 for every site because there's different
30:03 risks on every site so you need to carry
30:05 out a risk assessment based on the
30:07 information that you've got and
30:09 highlight any risks um to people and set
30:12 out your rules for your site like I said
30:15 you need to know where the locus the
30:17 local uh hospitals are so if accidents
30:20 do happen on your site people can get
30:22 there and then you want construction
30:24 phase plans and these construction phase
30:26 plans are a rough overview uh of how
30:30 you're going to carry out the works and
30:31 the health and safety risk involved with
30:33 carrying out the works and these evolve
30:35 as the project goes on so at the
30:37 beginning your construction phase plan
30:39 will be setting up your site and then
30:41 doing your foundations and obviously the
30:42 risks are uh putting the fencing out U
30:47 uh and also pulling the foundations
30:48 these are the risks that you need to be
30:50 highlighting in this construction phase
30:51 plan and you're going to be showing
30:54 logistic maps of how your site's going
30:55 to be laid
30:56 out and this is one that was done by one
30:59 of our clients so you can see the
31:01 different phases of different elements
31:03 of Works going on um throughout his
31:06 project so it's just as as the project
31:10 evolves this construction phase plan
31:11 evolves so this should be carried out by
31:14 your main contractor but if you are a
31:15 developer or self-builder you you may
31:17 have to do the first one and if you're
31:18 trying to project manage it yourself
31:20 you're going to have to do these
31:21 yourself we can help you do these um
31:23 they're not as hard as as the sound or
31:25 look and then you want a site setup list
31:28 so if you're a self Builder you want to
31:30 know what you need to do to set up your
31:31 site and if you're um a developer this
31:34 will probably be carried out by a main
31:36 contractor but if you're doing that
31:37 yourself you're going to need a site
31:39 setup list so this is going to list out
31:40 all the things that you need to think
31:42 about when you're setting up your site
31:43 like your cabins your fencing your
31:45 health and safety all these sort of
31:47 things you want to have on a list so
31:48 when you get to site you've got a list
31:50 to execute against and you set your site
31:52 up correctly so tip one compile the
31:55 legal documentation before starting uh
31:58 site because you don't want to be
31:59 starting on site and trying to compile
32:00 all this information because it's going
32:01 to be stressful enough as it is so do
32:03 this up front uh so you start
32:06 prepared deal with any planning
32:08 pre-commencement conditions before
32:10 starting on site so when you get
32:12 planning approved they might give you
32:13 some pre-commencement conditions so this
32:15 could be signing off your brick work
32:17 signing off your materials uh having
32:19 tree protection put in place so it's
32:21 good practice to get all this done and
32:23 approved by planning before you start on
32:26 site so once again you're not trying to
32:28 chase Your Tail uh and do it while
32:30 you're on site and you might even get
32:32 shut down by planning if you don't do
32:34 this and then come and put a hold on
32:36 your project and you don't want to do
32:37 that because obviously some of you will
32:39 be getting finance and you don't want
32:40 any delays uh in repaying your Finance
32:43 so tip three ensure you have detailed
32:45 action plan for setting up your site
32:47 ready for construction phase so make
32:49 sure you have a detailed action plan so
32:51 you know how you're setting up your site
32:53 you know all the materials that you need
32:55 you've got plan of action how you're
32:56 going to do it you're going to land on
32:58 site with st you know an excavator pull
33:01 the site clear it all ready get your
33:02 stone down put your fencing up put your
33:04 cabins in have this list of already
33:07 carried out so when you get to site you
33:09 just execute against the list so step 10
33:13 is prepare your site ready for
33:15 construction so here we're going to go
33:17 through why it's important to prepare
33:19 site so here you can see in this picture
33:21 we've cut down a tree on the site down
33:24 exitor we had a tree that was looking
33:25 like it was going to die and fall into
33:27 the construction area so before we
33:28 started on site we cut down a tree we
33:32 also following that we pulled the top
33:34 soil off the area of the site why do we
33:38 do this well top soil is a commodity so
33:41 we stop pile the top top so top soil get
33:44 my words out here why do we do that
33:47 because we don't want to pay to take the
33:49 top soil away to then PIR to bring it
33:52 back at the end and put it in the
33:53 landscaped area so we stock pile it here
33:56 there's a certain way you do it to make
33:57 sure that it could stay there for a
33:59 period of time and grass will eventually
34:01 grow in there if if done right and water
34:03 will run off properly so this has been
34:06 quite well done and it's just put to the
34:07 side of the site and at the end of the
34:09 job it'll be spread across the grass
34:11 areas and seeded and this can save you
34:14 anywhere from a couple of thousand
34:16 pounds to hundreds of thousands of
34:18 pounds depending on the size of your
34:20 site and uh sometimes if you've got too
34:23 much top soil that you can't reuse it
34:25 you may find people locally who can make
34:28 use of your top cell some of them may
34:29 buy it off you or they may take it away
34:31 for free I had a site once in Doncaster
34:34 we had quite a lot of top sell coming
34:35 out but luckily we found a site
34:37 delivering some houses about 300 houses
34:40 around the corner we went and knocked on
34:42 the site cabin door spoke to the site
34:44 manager and said look we got a lot top s
34:45 would you like it he said yes it was
34:47 great because he actually paid for the
34:48 wagons to come take it away and we just
34:50 loaded the wagons for him so we didn't
34:51 have to pay for the wagons to come take
34:53 it away so these are things that you can
34:56 think about whether you're developer or
34:57 self Builder and then you need to be
34:59 setting up your fencing it's a
35:01 requirement under um law I think by the
35:04 hsse it is by the HS say you've got to
35:07 put up a fence all the way around the
35:08 red line boundary of your site so when
35:10 your planning gets approved they give
35:12 you a red line boundary and under the
35:15 hsse regulations you have got to put up
35:18 uh a secure fence to stop people coming
35:20 in and if you're in built up areas it's
35:23 key because you're going to get kids
35:24 coming into site you don't want them
35:25 following falling into a trench having
35:27 an accident them because it's not going
35:29 to be good for them and potentially
35:30 you're going to be viable uh liable um
35:33 and you're going to get sued and you
35:35 know you can go to prism for this sort
35:37 of thing so it's it's Cru it's crucial
35:39 that you think about all these risks um
35:41 if you're out in the sticks and there's
35:43 nobody going to go cross it that's you
35:45 know some people don't put the fence but
35:47 like I say is a legal requirement by the
35:49 hsse so if you haven't got it up to come
35:51 out to site potentially you could get
35:53 shut
35:54 down uh and then you want to be putting
35:57 some Stone down down so wherever your
35:58 cabins are going if you're putting the
36:00 cabins in you need Stone down most most
36:02 of the time sometimes you need to get an
36:04 engineer to tell you what you're doing
36:05 but most of the time if you got good
36:06 ground you can you can pull the top soil
36:08 off put some Stone down two 300 mil
36:10 thick depending on what how good your
36:12 ground is and then you plant your cabins
36:13 on that and that just stops your cabin
36:15 from sinking if you do get a lot of rain
36:18 Etc uh and you can use that stone at the
36:20 end under your paved areas um so under
36:23 under your under your like patios Etc so
36:26 it it doesn't have to be sacrificial if
36:28 you
36:29 like and then you need to think about
36:31 where you're setting up your site cabins
36:33 so here we set the site cabins up at the
36:35 front of the
36:36 site which was a landscaped area so we
36:40 didn't have to move them around the site
36:42 so if you if you put them in an area you
36:44 don't want to put them somewhere then
36:46 you're going to have to remove them so
36:47 think about
36:48 this put some thought into how you going
36:50 to logistically deliver your your
36:53 project and where you're going to put
36:55 your sight setup you know if you're
36:57 develop this will be down to the main
36:58 contractor but obviously you have got um
37:01 uh you have got some liability under CDM
37:05 regulations to check that they're doing
37:06 everything correctly uh and and O
37:08 oversee it you might have a CDM advisor
37:11 they might check it for you um and just
37:14 make sure that things are getting done
37:16 uh efficiently and
37:17 correctly uh and this is just another
37:20 example this is a job that i' done 27
37:22 million pound Academy but you can see
37:24 here the cabins have been put at the
37:25 front uh so that have to be removed
37:28 around the site and another good thing
37:30 dependent on what you're doing even if
37:32 you're doing one property is to put a
37:34 stone Hall Road around your site uh why
37:38 do we do this so we can drive materials
37:40 around Sight uh and keep the site clean
37:42 and tidy because as you'll all know
37:44 you've all seen sites when it starts to
37:46 get messy people are driving around
37:48 mud's getting churned up and it becomes
37:50 a quad Mayan when you put a temporary
37:52 Road in you avoid that so you get
37:55 cleaner s yes it still gets a little bit
37:56 slushy and muddy sometimes but it's a
37:58 lot cleaner it's a lot easier to move
38:00 your materials around Sight it's good
38:01 for building your scaffolding off and
38:03 then at the end it's not sacrificial
38:05 because nine times out of 10 you've got
38:07 paved paved areas such as Pathways
38:09 patios Etc around the building anyway so
38:12 it just it just doubles up for your
38:14 construction details because under
38:16 patios you've got to put Stone
38:17 underneath that as a construction detail
38:19 so it do sink anywhere so it's good
38:21 practice to put Hall Roads in uh so you
38:23 can get around Sight and make sure your
38:25 cabin's in a a good location
38:28 so you don't have to move
38:29 it uh so tip one there clear the site by
38:33 removing any debr and trees where
38:34 required so you've got a good clean
38:36 sight ready for construction and then
38:39 tip two carry out a cut and fill process
38:42 to level the sight and start any usable
38:44 top soil in a well situated location for
38:46 future use or landscaping and if you
38:49 can't do that try to sell it to somebody
38:51 locally if possible and tip three
38:54 position your sight cabin strategically
38:56 to avoid disrup in construction or
38:59 requiring relocation so as I've touched
39:01 on you don't want to be putting your cab
39:03 in there and then finding out all
39:05 actually I'm building a house there so
39:06 I'll put it there you only want to be
39:08 doing it once so think about it if you
39:11 did if you you know if you're building
39:13 10 houses you want to just put your
39:15 cabins in once you don't want to be keep
39:17 moving it every time you build a house
39:18 there so think about this up front it
39:20 can save you some money it's pretty
39:23 obvious to me but it might not be
39:24 obvious to you guys so that's why I put
39:26 it in so that's it we've come to the end
39:28 of module two I'm sure you've got
39:30 massive value from this um I've enjoyed
39:33 giving you this information for
39:34 completely free and you can see how we
39:36 help our clients through this Pro this
39:39 process to make sure that they do it
39:40 correctly swiftly and cost effectively
39:43 so this was Master Builders how to
39:45 secure the best team and prepare for
39:47 construction and we've gone through
39:49 these five steps so planning your build
39:50 we talked about why it's critical to
39:52 think about all the elements you build
39:54 and having a plan of how you're going to
39:55 do that so you can secure finan and
39:57 insurance and all the rest of it and
39:58 then we talked about building control
40:00 warranties and utilities and why it's
40:01 key to get them on board early to make
40:03 sure that you're getting the sign offs
40:05 of required and that you build into
40:07 details that you know that are going to
40:09 get signed off to and you can include
40:10 them in your tenders then we talked on
40:12 step eight securing the best contractors
40:15 and materials for your site so we talked
40:17 about getting a professional involved
40:19 send the information out to make sure
40:21 that when you place some orders you wrap
40:23 up the contracts effectively so you
40:24 don't end up in disputes and end up
40:26 getting hit for variation
40:27 and your cost spiraling out control and
40:30 then step nine was project management so
40:33 project management CDM and health and
40:35 safety so we talked about the importance
40:36 of thinking about keeping everybody
40:38 involved in the project understanding
40:41 the risks on the project making people
40:43 aware of that so when the price in the
40:45 job they know what they're up against
40:46 making them aware of any specific risks
40:48 on the project and making sure you've
40:50 got the documentation in place and a
40:52 list of information in place so when you
40:53 start on site you know what you're doing
40:56 and then step 10 was prepare your site
40:57 so getting rid of the
40:59 trees um clearing the site doing the cut
41:03 and fill and potentially selling top
41:05 soil and setting up your cabins in the
41:06 correct place ready for your
41:08 construction phase so through these
41:11 steps alone we've saved thousands with
41:14 our with our clients tens of thousands
41:16 if not hundreds of thousands millions of
41:18 pounds through my career by doing this
41:21 correctly and now we're going to touch
41:22 on what we're going to go through the
41:23 next module from ground to Glory
41:25 bringing your project to life
41:28 so we're going to go through these steps
41:30 so we're going to go through Step 11
41:31 which is foundations we're going to talk
41:33 about foundations and demolition at this
41:34 point for those of you doing
41:36 refurbishment and the importance of why
41:39 you need to get that bit right to make
41:40 sure you don't waste thousands of pounds
41:42 tens of thousands of pounds and then
41:44 step 12 is construction constructing the
41:46 framework and achieving a watertight
41:48 seal we're going to talk about the
41:49 importance of building your structure
41:51 correctly and doing it in the right the
41:52 right way to make sure you don't waste
41:54 money and then achieving that watertight
41:55 seal so you seal the building and you
41:58 can carry out the fit out correctly and
42:01 then Step 13 is fitting out your new
42:03 home and Landscaping we going to talk
42:04 about how you go about sequence in the
42:06 work keeping people involved and why you
42:08 can do the Landscaping at the same time
42:09 to save time and then step 14 is
42:12 snagging an air test so understanding
42:14 the importance of snagging the works and
42:17 getting the air test carried out to pass
42:19 building control requirements and then
42:21 15 achieving building control and
42:23 warranty sign off and getting the
42:25 certificate
42:27 ification to to to be complete and ready
42:30 for hand over and then step six is
42:32 moving into your new home or handing
42:34 over your development if you like
42:36 depending on which situation you're in
42:38 so the next elements we're going to show
42:41 you how we save our clients tens of
42:43 thousands of pounds as we've done
42:44 through the whole process and build your
42:46 project in
42:48 budget by following them steps we've
42:51 save Richard £70,000 by utilizing our
42:54 pricing schedule and negotiating a
42:56 turnkey solution
42:57 with his builder in exitor so we're down
42:59 in exitor currently you might seen our
43:01 review from Richard where we helped him
43:03 save 71,000 through the procurement
43:05 stage and now we're currently at roof
43:09 level we're just putting the roof
43:10 structuring at the minute so we'll be
43:11 looking to complete this project in next
43:13 couple of months and we've got a main
43:14 contractor on site and he's a self
43:15 Builder it's never built anything before
43:18 I drove down to see him and that's the
43:19 picture of me and him on site lovely
43:22 scene and then we've also saved well
43:24 £15,000 by using our pricing schedule by
43:27 reviewing each quote carefully and
43:29 managing saving 15,000 on the on the
43:31 drainage element alone so that's just on
43:32 one element just £1 155,000 and he's
43:35 also self a self-builder he's down in
43:37 Portsmouth and I went out to see him end
43:39 of last year and he's now currently just
43:42 pulling all his site ready for
43:44 construction so remember by completing
43:46 the course within five days we're giving
43:48 you the pricing schedule that we use
43:49 with our clients and our high ticket
43:51 program so our high ticket program is
43:53 £12,000 but we give you a price based on
43:56 your project and require re Ms so some
43:58 people just want mentoring to make sure
44:00 we can save them money and some people
44:01 want a little bit more Hands-On where we
44:03 get involved and help them negotiate
44:05 with the contractors but it's £12,000 is
44:07 a good starting point for you to know
44:08 how much it costs but you're going to
44:10 get this pricing schedule which you can
44:12 use on your project whether you work
44:13 with us or not and you can use it to
44:15 save tens of thousands of pounds like we
44:17 do and all you got to do is complete
44:19 within five days and you'll get access
44:20 to this and if you don't complete within
44:22 5 days unfortunately we remove you
44:24 because it's only for the action takers
44:25 because we want to reward the action
44:27 takers and we do this to give you the
44:30 motivation to complete to get the the
44:31 schedule so you can save tens of
44:33 thousands of pounds using the schedule
44:35 as I have done throughout my career and
44:38 if you don't like to say we will have to
44:39 remove you so we've got rules that we've
44:41 got to stick to but hopefully I'll see
44:43 you all completing getting schedule and
44:46 you may even jump on a call with me and
44:47 decide to to work with me on your
44:49 project and I'd love to uh I'd love to
44:51 see you so now is the time for you to do
44:54 your assignment so what's your biggest
44:55 takeaway what's your your biggest
44:57 concern after watching this module
44:59 remember the rules are post the
45:00 assignments as required read the
45:03 information before this video I'll tell
45:04 you exactly how to do it if you break
45:06 the rule you must be banned so if you
45:08 don't do it properly we're just going to
45:09 remove you we're giving you this free
45:11 information all we ask you to do is
45:13 follow the rules very simple and you're
45:15 going to get access to the uh the
45:17 pricing schedule thanks for watching
45:20 this and I look forward to seeing on the
45:21 next module get your assignment done
45:23 I'll see you soon
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