11Aug

Turnkey vs item-rate vs labour construction contract

Turnkey, Item-Rate or Labour Contract? Choosing How Your Project Is Structured

Most clients spend weeks comparing contractors and about ten minutes deciding what kind of contract they're signing. That's backwards. The contract type determines who absorbs the cost when the design…

11Aug

Building materials suited to Kerala climate and humidity

Building Materials That Fail in Kerala’s Climate — And What to Use Instead

Kerala is hard on buildings in a way that catalogues don't account for. Most building products are specified against generic performance data. That data rarely reflects eight months of high…

11Aug

How to Choose a Construction Contractor in Kerala: 12 Checks That Matter

We're a construction company writing about how to evaluate construction companies, so read this with that in mind. We're writing it anyway because the projects that go badly wrong in…

11Aug

Bathroom waterproofing before tiling – checklist

Bathroom Waterproofing: The 11-Point Checklist to Run Before Your Tiler Arrives

A leaking bathroom is the most expensive small repair in a building. Not because waterproofing a bathroom is difficult — it isn't, and it's a small area. It's expensive because…

11Aug

Industrial shed construction in Ernakulam by Steelbridge Infra

Industrial Shed Construction in Ernakulam: What Actually Happens, Step by Step

Most people planning their first factory or warehouse in Ernakulam budget for the building and are surprised by everything around it. The structure is often the predictable part. Land conversion,…

11Aug

Your Terrace Was Waterproofed Last Year. Why Is It Leaking Again?

This is the most common call we get between June and September. Someone spent a reasonable amount of money on waterproofing eighteen months ago, the monsoon arrived, and there's a…