Te Rapa distribution warehouse

The site had been a market garden and the geotech came back with two metres of soft fill across half the footprint. Three of the four tenderers priced it as a provisional sum, which is a way of saying they did not know. We priced it as a fixed lump sum with an undercut-and-replace allowance we had measured ourselves, and carried the risk. It cost us about a fortnight of programme and nothing off the client's budget. Handed over eleven days early. The office fitout ran alongside the last of the tilt panels, which is only possible when the same people control both.