COMMERCIAL GUIDE
Commercial pre-construction checklist.
Use this as an early conversation guide. Responsibility for each item should be agreed with appropriately competent advisers.
- Business case: objectives, success measures, budget authority and decision-makers.
- Site control: ownership, lease, option, access and third-party rights.
- Planning: use class, pre-application position, constraints and consent strategy.
- Surveys: measured, condition, structural, utilities, drainage, asbestos, ground and ecology as relevant.
- Brief: accommodation, areas, performance, quality and operational requirements.
- Cost plan: construction, preliminaries, inflation, risk, fees, VAT and exclusions.
- Programme: approvals, design, procurement, lead times, enabling works and occupation.
- Design team: appointments, scope, deliverables, information exchanges and dutyholders.
- Procurement: route, tender list, evaluation method, contract and responsibility matrix.
- Delivery readiness: logistics, neighbours, phasing, working hours, temporary works and handover.