Our process
Six stages. No surprises. A build that ends as well as it started.
Most of what makes a project go wrong happens long before anyone picks up a trowel. Our process is designed to catch the problems in the quiet weeks.
Boring on purpose
We've borrowed the best bits from twenty years of running jobs across South Yorkshire and turned them into a process that reads almost dull on paper. That's deliberate. The jobs that go best are the ones nobody had to be a hero on.
Every stage has a named owner inside Burhouse, a one-page summary you can read in under a minute, and a clear gate that has to close before the next stage begins.
The six stages
01
Conversation
We sit down with you, on site or in the office, and listen. No glossy pitch deck. We want to understand the brief, the budget reality, and what 'finished properly' looks like to you.
02
Feasibility & costing
An honest first-pass cost and programme. If we think the brief and budget don't line up, we say so now, not at week twelve.
03
Design coordination
We work with your architect and design team, or bring in ours. Buildability, value engineering, and clash detection happen here, on paper, not on site.
04
Pre-construction
Procurement, programme, logistics, neighbours, permits. The quiet weeks that decide whether the loud weeks go well.
05
On site
Weekly client report. Daily site briefing. Snags raised and closed as we go, not stockpiled for the end. You always know what's happening.
06
Handover & aftercare
Clean handover packs. O&Ms that make sense. A twelve-month defects period we actually answer the phone during.