Pre-construction consultancy
Build Ready tests the numbers, the risk and the programme while they are still cheap to change. You reach site knowing what the job will really take — and whether it is worth doing at all.
Advice Feasibility & appraisal
Diligence Technical & site
Certainty Cost, risk & programme
Based Birmingham · UK-wide
We uncover the facts that matter.
We reduce risk and remove uncertainty.
We provide the roadmap to move forward.
We help you build with certainty.
By the time a contractor is on site, most of the money is already committed. The drawings are fixed, the contract is signed, and every change costs more than it would have six months earlier.
Build Ready works in the window before that. We appraise sites, interrogate cost plans, stress-test programmes and surface the risks that usually arrive too late to do anything about. We are not here to sell you a scheme — we are here to tell you what it will really take.
“Does it
stack up?”
An honest read on whether the site, the scheme and the numbers can carry your ambition — before you exchange, before you appoint a full design team, and while walking away is still an option.
“What’s
hiding?”
Thorough analysis and insight. We read everything you have been handed — and work out what you have not been handed — so the surprises surface at desk stage rather than in a variation order.
“What could
go wrong?”
A live risk register with owners, costs and dates against every line — not a spreadsheet that gets written once and never opened. We price the risk, then help you design it out.
“Are we getting
value?”
Better decisions lead to better results. We make sure the specification, the contract and the contractor are all pulling in the same direction — and that cost saved is not quality lost.
We map to the RIBA Plan of Work, so you always know which stage you are in, what has been settled, and what is still open.
01 RIBA 0–1
We agree what success looks like, then test whether the site can deliver it. You get a straight answer on viability before the spending starts.
02 RIBA 1–2
We interrogate the information, find the gaps, and put a quantified risk register in front of you with the cost and time attached to each item.
03 RIBA 2–3
Design is tested against budget and date, not the other way round. Where they do not meet, we show you the options rather than the problem.
04 RIBA 3–4
The right route, the right tender list, the right contract terms — so the contractor you appoint is the one who can actually deliver it.
We advise developers, investors, funders, landowners and occupiers — from a single plot to a multi-phase scheme. Based in Birmingham, working across the UK.
“They found two things in the first fortnight that would have cost us the best part of a year. We would not start another scheme without that review.”
The first conversation is free and lasts about half an hour. Bring whatever you have — a site address, a sketch, a spreadsheet that will not balance — and we will tell you what we think, and whether you need us at all.