Can You Create a Construction Risk Register With AI and Structured Records?
Stop maintaining a document and start reading the records you already keep. What structured records plus AI can do for a risk register, and what they can't.
Three Months of Allocation Sheets and Not One Links to the Programme
Ninety days of allocation sheets, every box filled, none linked to a programme activity. Why that breaks your CVR, CE quotations and Disallowed Cost defence.
Will AI QSs Kill Off the Graduate Quantity Surveyor?
Graduates are hired to do the work that builds judgement. AI now does that work in seconds. The case for and against, and how firms should rebuild training.
AI Image Tagging: Turning Your Site Photo Chaos Into Evidence
AI image tagging turns an inbox of jpegs into a searchable, timestamped record. The engines underneath, the four tool categories, and the accuracy trap.
OpenAI Just Gave ChatGPT a Job. Should It Have Yours?
ChatGPT Work takes a goal and returns a finished document. Here is what it really does, the rollout catches, and how it stacks up against Copilot and Claude.
Five advantages of a bill of quantities: comparable tenders, clearer valuations, fewer variation fights. The bill is only as honest as the quantities written down on the day.
S-Curves in Construction: The Project Manager's Guide to Tracking Progress
How to read, build and use construction S-curves: the formula, planned vs actual, CPI/SPI, and why the site diary behind the curve is what lets a QS plot earned value.
Earned Value Analysis: 10 Essentials for Construction Projects
Earned value analysis compares planned, actual and completed work to show whether a job is on programme and on budget. Ten formulas, from BCWS through EAC, with a worked example.
Project 13 & Site Records for Infrastructure Success
Project 13 is the ICE enterprise model for infrastructure. What it is, how owners and suppliers work as one team, and why the daily site record still decides whether you get paid.
NRM2, CESMM4, SMM7: UK Construction Measurement Standards Compared
NRM2, CESMM4, SMM7, MCHW and RMM compared. Which UK measurement standard applies, what SMM7 still means on legacy jobs, and why the measure only holds if the site record is complete.
Gather sponsors NEC People Conference 2025 in London. Ben Walker presents on NEC4 commercial discipline and structured recordkeeping for infrastructure projects
Daily Allocation Sheets: Construction's Most Underrated Document
The daily allocation sheet is underrated. Names, hours and the activity, written that shift. Reconstruct it on Friday and Defined Cost becomes a guess.
Critical Path Method Definition, Analysis Benefits & How to Do It
The critical path method is the longest chain of activities that sets the finish date. How to build a CPM, what float means, and why a revision is only honest if progress was written that day.
