Notes from the site and the plant room

Tagged site works

• Structural steel Featured

  What steel erection actually involves, stage by stage

  Erection is the visible part of a longer sequence. Knowing the stages makes it much easier to see where a programme is going to slip.

  AL NIMRA Admin 15 Sep 2026 · 2 min
• Structural steel Featured

  Site readiness before steel arrives

  A checklist worth working through before the first delivery, because every item on it stops the crane if it is missed.

  AL NIMRA Admin 31 Aug 2026 · 2 min
• Compliance & delivery

  Method statements and risk assessments: what they are for

  Treated as paperwork they are useless. Treated as planning they prevent most of what goes wrong.

  AL NIMRA Admin 06 Aug 2026 · 2 min
• Compliance & delivery

  Working through a UAE summer: what it does to a programme

  Heat shortens the productive day, slows the work that remains, and changes how materials behave. All three belong in the plan.

  AL NIMRA Admin 22 Jul 2026 · 2 min
• Compliance & delivery

  Snagging and handover without the argument

  Most handover disputes come from a standard nobody agreed in advance.

  AL NIMRA Admin 22 Jun 2026 · 2 min
• Structural steel

  Reading a structural steel drawing

  Grids, marks and revisions. Enough to follow a steel drawing and know when you are looking at the wrong one.

  AL NIMRA Admin 18 May 2026 · 2 min
• Structural steel

  Common causes of delay on a steel package

  The same handful of items account for most lost time, and nearly all of them are decided before erection starts.

  AL NIMRA Admin 03 May 2026 · 2 min