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Budget, contingency and staying in control of cost
Where budgets quietly slip, how contingency should be held and released, provisional sums and prime cost items in plain language, and how to keep cost conversations calm.
The stage
Budget, contingency and staying in control of cost
The broadcast plays on this page when the clinic begins.
Reserve your placeYour host
Hakan Malaj
Founder, The Construction Clinic
Opens with
Welcome and how the evening works
90 minutes, talks then open Q&A
When
Thursday 22 July 2027
6:30pm – 8:00pm · Online webinar
The live room
Chat with other homeowners, put a question to the panel and vote in the live polls. The room stays open before and after the session.
The running order
Welcome and how the evening works
5 minHow to ask a question, how the Q&A is run, and what we will not be doing (selling you anything).
The Clinic founder
The founder's introduction
15 minWhy the Clinic exists, and the pattern behind most homeowner construction problems.
The Clinic founder
The design view
15 minPlanning, permissions and the drawings a builder needs before a price means anything.
A practising architect
The cost view
15 minReal rates, contingency and the three places domestic budgets quietly slip.
A cost consultant
A homeowner's honest story
10 minOne project, start to finish, with nothing tidied up for the telling.
A homeowner who has been through it
The Q&A clinic
25 minThe heart of the evening. Questions submitted in advance are answered first, then live questions from the room.
Where to go next
5 minThe free checklist, the guides, and how the portal supports you between clinics.
On the panel
Founder, The Construction Clinic — HXL Construction
The Clinic founder
Two decades of domestic building work, told from the client's side of the table.
Chartered architect, domestic and conservation work
A practising architect
Where a project is won or lost: the drawings a builder is asked to price.
Quantity surveyor, residential projects
A cost consultant
The numbers behind the numbers: rates, contingency and where budgets slip.
Reserve your place
Free to attend. We send your joining link a few days before, and a reminder on the day.