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Construction, the site, and getting paid for it

What happens between the drawing and the certificate: reporting the site so it can be proved, buying material against the bill, measuring work in place, and closing the job. See construction management.

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What is an IPC? Interim payment certificates for people who have to live with themContractors are not paid when work is done — they are paid when work is certified. The IPC is the document that moves the money, and it deserves to be understood precisely.The daily site report that actually protects you (and the template that doesn't)The daily report feels like paperwork right up until the day it is evidence. Here is what a useful one records, and how to make filing it take five minutes instead of forty.The snag list, done properly: how good projects closeEvery project ends through its snag list. Run it as evidence — located, photographed, assigned, verified — and handover is a process; run it as a verbal list and it is a negotiation.Procurement without leaks: from BOQ line to purchase order to storeProcurement is where a project's money physically leaves. The process that protects it is old and boring — the discipline is making every step trace to the one before.

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