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