The Globe Group

03/09/2026

Procurement-Ready Tender

🟥 Fall protection tenders that arrive procurement-ready are the exception, not the norm.

Specify the requirements at pre-qualification.

https://redsafetynetting.co.uk/?p=1177

01/09/2026

S38 vs S278

🏗️ Section 38 and Section 278 agreements both carry cost, programme risk and bonded sureties.

Most housing schemes need both.

https://gce-ltd.co.uk/?p=1082

20/08/2026

🟥 Inset vs bay netting is a structural choice, not a design preference.

The engineering decides which configuration fits the scheme.

Catch netting installations on UK construction sites are typically configured in one of two ways: inset netting, where the net is set within the scaffold

12/08/2026

Dry verge and dry ridge are now developer standard on new build.

Specify them at design stage to control the warranty-period defect rate.

Dry verge and dry ridge systems have become standard practice on UK new build housing over the last decade. The market has moved away from wet-mortared verges

14/07/2026

🏠 Mid-build NHBC inspection should be a non-event for a roofing contractor running tight to standard.

It becomes a negotiation only when the contractor’s own internal QC is weak.

NHBC inspection points on a new build scheme are not occasions. They are checkpoints in a continuous process. By the time the inspector arrives at a mid-build

07/07/2026

CDM in Groundworks

🏗️ A groundworks contractor whose CDM is thin transfers risk back to the principal contractor.

Documentation discipline matters as much as the accreditations on the wall.

Groundworks sits early on the construction phase plan and carries disproportionate residual risk under CDM 2015. The principal contractor's exposure begins

30/06/2026

A failed highway's adoption blocks plot completions and freezes sales.

Right first time is far cheaper than any retro fix.

On a housing development, highways adoption rarely gets the commercial attention it deserves until it goes wrong. Roads and sewers built outside adoption

26/06/2026

ISO 9001 puts an audit trail behind every scaffold inspection on site.

For principal contractors, that is what protects the handover pack.

Scaffold inspection and handover are the two documented points at which the responsibility for a scaffold is verified and transferred. The inspection confirms

16/06/2026

Civils in a live operational environment is not greenfield civils with extra signs.

Phasing, hours, public access and live services all need designing out, not improvising around.

Civil engineering works carried out on a greenfield housing site involve their own complexities, but the operational environment is at least controllable. The

11/06/2026

Scaffold on a housing site is a rolling programme, not a one-off package.

Plan the access and sequencing early, or pay for it in lost weeks.

Scaffolding on a new build housing site looks routine. Plots go up, scaffold goes around them, trades work above ground level, and eventually it all comes