Christian Hale speaks on the Builders’ Voices podcast in association with the Federation of Master Builders about the perils of value engineering post-tender. He explains how clients’ expectations need managing so that cost cutting isn’t inevitable, and makes a plea to reduce extra costs like urban parking suspensions.
Christian Hale looks at the growing trend of post-tender value engineering requests, highlighting the challenges faced by industry professionals when ambitions don’t match budgets, in the ‘Hot Topics’ section of the October 2024 issue of ABC+D magazine.
The light-filled, contemporary new build home we built with architecture by HollandGreen, is a lead feature in Grand Designs magazine, August 2024. Read the article reproduced in full on HollandGreen’s website here.
Christian Hale shares his recent lived experience of – and frustration with – the variable service from building control bodies, and proposes some solutions for the urgent improvement needed.
Hale was the main contractor on the extension to the Grade II-listed Golders Green Crematorium – one of the first crematoria built in England, dating back to 1912.
Christian Hale discusses the need to replace nostalgia with common sense when considering what needs to be retained and what can be replaced during a refurbishment project.
Christian Hale writes in this article that rigid heritage requirements often mean potential refurbishment projects fall at the first hurdle because they become unviable, and that instead of hanging on to sentimental ideas of heritage, we need to ensure that our architectural heritage survives by updating it, rather than being a slave to the past.
Christian Hale is interviewed in the April 2022 issue of FC&A magazine about the importance of information release schedules in preventing delays on site. He discusses the imperative for information release schedules to be a working document maintained in real time, and the need to articulate the type of information and level of detail required to achieve the best outcome for the project.
