🔍Task Sequencing vs. “Going Rates” – Rethinking Installation Pricing
A few years ago, when the construction market was booming with projects, facade subcontractors could often get away with inadequate planning and still make a profit. Complacent end clients would cover “unexpected” extras at every turn. But today, things have changed. If you don’t know your numbers from the outset, you’ll be the one paying the real cost — sometimes out of pocket, even to the point of going under, which may seem to appear on the breaking news headlines quite often nowadays.
Over the years, we’ve partnered with Building Envelope contractors and CW–Window–Door manufacturers of all sizes — from ambitious newcomers to prestigious names with refined systems. This has given us a prime seat to observe how different in-house approaches work. Along the way, we’ve incorporated the best practices from each into our own systems, refining them to meet today’s challenges head-on.
We now pass this experience on to our partners by helping them optimise:
📋 Site management processes
🦺 H&S compliance and safe systems of work
🛠️ Installation workflows
🏗️ Complex lifting & logistics operations
All offered at the special price of… COMPLETELY FREE 😊
🌍 Our Belief
For us at ON FACADES, this isn’t just idealism. It’s about reliability, sustainability in resourcing, maintaining a constant and optimised labour flow on site, aligning with programme and budget, and ultimately ensuring successful project delivery.
👷 Our Commitment
As proper planning couldn't be made entirely from behind a desk, earlier in the week, we jumped into some old dusty boots and visited several sites to plan, review, and refine safe systems of work for projects at different stages of tendering and contracting.
🙌 Our Salute
To all like-minded businesses across the UK and beyond: stay true to your principles. And to our clients: thank you for fuelling our curiosity and taking the time and putting the effort to answer our how, when, and why questions
Let's all raise the standards by planning and pricing projects responsibly.
