Insights

Written from theengagement, notfrom the brochure.

Technical writing on the mechanics of capital project assurance. No client is named and no engagement is described. What is published here is the discipline itself.

FIDIC and Claims3 min read

Extension of time claims are decided by the records, not by the argument

By the time a contractor submits, the owner's position has usually already been lost in the site diaries, the unanswered notices, and the instructions given verbally.

13 August 2026

Asset Management4 min

Most Gulf public entities cannot state what they own, and the deadline is now contractual

The register is a spreadsheet inherited from a consultant, the valuations predate two handovers, and the operations contract is priced against assets nobody has verified.

13 August 2026→

Construction Audit4 min

What a construction audit actually recovers, and when it stops being possible

Recovery on a construction audit is rarely one large finding. It is forty small ones that each looked reasonable on the certificate they arrived on.

13 August 2026→