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The handover readiness review, run at sixty per cent completeA readiness review at sixty per cent complete is a mid-project gate: asset tags, ITPs, O and M drafts and the issued set, while the people who can still close the holes are on the job. The same review at practical completion is a surprise.20 Jan 2026 · Learning · Quality · 11 min read
On a daylight construction hoist landing at mid-height of an unfinished concrete frame, two site people review a printed four-row readiness score sheet on the chequer-plate deck beside a newly delivered air-handling unit, open slab edges and services going in behind them.
A defects workflow your subcontractors will actually useDesign the item for the trade who closes it: a photograph they can take, a location they can walk to, an issued-set pin they can trust, and a close-out they can finish in gloves. A list built for the office logger is labour the main contractor performs for free.13 Jan 2026 · Learning · Quality · 16 min read
A trade closer photographs a door-reveal defect at arm's length, an issued-sheet extract taped to the leaf beside the jamb, late-afternoon light in an unfinished plaster corridor.
Inspection and test plans tied to asset tags from day oneHandover does not assemble in the last fortnight. It assembles when every inspection and test plan is written against an asset tag from the first hold point, not against a spreadsheet named after a trade.16 Dec 2025 · Learning · Quality · 9 min read
A factory worker in grey overalls and leather gloves rivets a small blank metal plate onto a galvanised air-handling unit while a paper inspection sheet hangs from a clipboard clip on the same cabinet, under cool fluorescent shop-floor lighting.