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The handover pack that builds itself | CONQA

Pete Simons — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:38:00 GMT

Practical completion is one thing – the handover pack is another. The signed ITPs, the hold point sign-offs, the photos that prove the work was done to spec: they all exist – you hope, and now someone has to find them.

Standardising QA as you scale | CONQA

Pete Simons — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:37:49 GMT

In civil infrastructure, consistency matters as much as speed. Work runs across multiple crews, subcontractors, and regions, under tight programmes and real scrutiny. Yet in many growing teams, the quality of the work and the record behind it still ride on individual experience rather than a repeatable system.

QA vs QC in construction: the difference, and why contracts care | CONQA

Elyse Oldridge — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:25:43 GMT

The two get used interchangeably on site, and on most days it doesn't matter. It matters at tender, when the question is "what's your QA system?", and it matters at month-end, when the superintendent wants the records before certifying the claim. So it's worth being precise.

The hidden costs of a QA system that lags the work | CONQA

Pete Simons — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:25:43 GMT

QA and progress are supposed to move together. On a lot of projects the documentation runs somewhere behind the physical work – days, weeks, sometimes right up to handover, when someone has to pull the whole record together under pressure.

No proof, no payment | CONQA

Pete Simons — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:24:14 GMT

How much of your last progress claim got held?