DesignDesign: Month four…
Month four
A wall is poured from an old drawing and broken out again. It's booked to "site labour" and "plant".
Kofi's journey · Commercial · Story 6
The cost nobody booked
Bad information is costing the job a fortune. Nobody can say how much, because it's booked to everything else.
The wrong way
BuildBuild: Month six…
Month six
Pipework arrives 200mm too high. It's booked to "materials".
BuildBuild: Month eight…
Month eight
A week of re-measuring. It's booked to "commercial overheads".
The question
Helen asks whether the information manager is worth the money. Nobody can answer.
The cost report
Labour, plant and materials are over budget. It doesn't say why.
The next bid
Kofi: It's all in here. I just can't see it.
It cuts the information manager to save money, and the same mistakes cost the same again.
The rework was in every line of the cost report, and visible in none of them.
Find out what Kofi should have doneKofi's Lesson 6 · The cost nobody booked, then the same story done the right way.