Journal

Working notes from the drawing board and the night shift.

What we learn on site, written down so it is useful before the next tender rather than after it. Delivery, design and the parts of a rollout that decide the date.

• 01

  

  Delivery · 28 July 2026 · 6 min

  Fitting out a mall unit when the only working window is 10pm to 7am

  A mall does not give you a site. It gives you nine hours a night, a service lift shared with four other contractors, and a trading floor that must look untouched by 8am.

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• 02

  

  Design · 16 June 2026 · 7 min

  Translating a global brand standard for Indian conditions

  A brand manual written in London assumes a climate, a supply chain and a way of shopping. Two of those three change the moment the drawing lands in Chennai.

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• 03

  

  Delivery · 5 May 2026 · 5 min

  The shell handover checklist that decides your programme

  Most programme slippage is bought at handover, weeks before anybody notices. The shell you accept is the programme you agreed to.

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