For owners and directors of established UK contractors
Deliver every project without needing heroes to rescue it.
It isn’t your people. It’s the way work moves through your business. In 20 working days you’ll know exactly where it breaks down, and your team will be running a live job to a Takt plan they built themselves.
Takt plan and Last Planner System delivered on the Oak Bank care home for Meridian Construction. References on request.
The programme you tendered, and the job you’re running
Illustration only.
Every job starts well. Then the same things happen.
It isn’t just you. In a survey of 452 construction firms:
86%
reported gaps between the schedule and what happens on site
The programme stops matching the site
The plan built at tender and the work on the ground drift apart, and before long nobody trusts the dates.
Everyone’s busy, but the job isn’t moving
Design, procurement, commercial and site each work hard to their own plan. The work waits in the gaps between them.
You hear about problems when it’s too late
By the time an issue reaches your desk it’s a recovery, not a decision. So you step in. Again.
85%
reported fragmented project data
82%
reported poor collaboration
Source: LCMD survey of 452 construction firms, 2025.
You don’t have a people problem. You have a delivery system problem.
You’ve got good project managers, planners and QSs. You’ve probably got the software too. But good people working inside a poorly designed system still get poor results, and they end up working evenings to hold it together.
Another hire won’t fix that. Neither will another system. Changing how work flows through the business will.
I don’t come in to tell you your team isn’t good enough. I come in to find what’s getting in their way.
What happens in the 20 days
One of your live projects. Four weeks. Your team involved from day one, so what we build is theirs, not mine.
The same job, run to a Takt plan
Five zones, five trades, one week each. Everyone knows where they are this week and where they go next. Illustration only.
Week 1 · Days 1–5
See how work really flows
I spend time with your directors, office team and site team on a live project, and we follow how a job actually moves from winning it to handing it over.
You get
A map of how your business delivers a job today
Week 2 · Days 6–10
Find what’s getting in the way
We trace delays and rework back to where they start. Your team checks the findings with me as we go, so nothing lands as a surprise.
You get
A Delivery Health Assessment: where the system breaks down, and why
Week 3 · Days 11–15
Redesign how you deliver
With your team, we design how your business should run a job from win to handover, and build a Takt plan for the live project.
You get
Your future way of delivering, and a Takt plan for a real job
Week 4 · Days 16–20
Train your team and hand over
Your managers and site leads learn Takt planning and the Last Planner System, and run their first weekly planning sessions with me alongside.
You get
A trained team, a weekly planning routine already running, and a roadmap for the rest of the business
In week one we look at six parts of how your business delivers:
01
How a job moves
From winning it to handing it over
02
Who decides what
And who owns the result
03
Where the work happens
Office, site and supply chain
04
What information people need
And when it arrives
05
How subcontractors and suppliers work
How they commit and deliver
06
How you plan and control
The work, week to week
Time needed from your team: a couple of hours a day
What you get, and what it looks like
Not a 100-page report. Short, visual documents your team can use, and a way of working they’re already running.
- A map of how your business delivers today
- A Delivery Health Assessment
- Your future way of delivering, from win to handover
- A Takt plan for one of your live projects
- A team trained in Takt and the Last Planner System
- A roadmap for rolling it out across the business
Illustrative sample
Delivery Health Assessment
Where your delivery system breaks down, area by area, and what to fix first.
Illustrative sample
Future way of delivering
- Win and hand over to the delivery team
- Build the Takt plan with site and trades
- Make work ready: six-week look-ahead
- Weekly commitments, promises tracked
- Learn from misses, improve
- Hand over on the date you said
How your business will run a job from win to handover once it’s redesigned.
The fee
£20,000
Fixed. Four weeks. One live project.
Put it against a single job. On a £10m project, a 1% improvement is worth £100,000, five times the fee. That’s an illustration, not a promise. The point is scale: the fee is small next to what a late job costs you.
After day 20, your team runs it. The programme is designed so you don’t need me to keep it going. If you’d like help rolling it out across more projects, we can talk about that on the call.
The questions directors ask first
Am I just going to get another report?
No. You get a redesigned way of delivering and a team that’s already using it on a live job. The documents are short and visual, and they’re there to support the change, not replace it.
Will this disrupt jobs we’re already running?
We work on a live project, not around it. The new way of working comes in through the weekly planning your team needs to do anyway.
We’ve tried Lean before.
Plenty of firms have. Usually a method gets added on top of a business that didn’t change underneath. This starts with how the business runs, then brings in the method.
We already have planners and software.
Good. This isn’t another hire or another tool. It gets the people and systems you already have working to the same plan.
Can anyone understand my business in four weeks?
The aim isn’t to learn everything. It’s to follow real work through a live job and find where it breaks. That’s where the evidence is.
Why can’t my own people do this?
They’re capable, but they’re too close and too busy. An outside view can follow a job from win to handover without a department to defend.
What if my senior team pushes back?
They’re part of the diagnosis from day one and check the findings before you see them. People back what they helped build.
What if you find something uncomfortable?
Then you’ll know, privately, with a plan to fix it. The findings are about the system, not about blaming anyone.
Who you’ll be working with
Adeel Mirza
For more than eight years I’ve helped large organisations fix how they deliver work, for clients including BP, IBM, Rolls-Royce, Whitbread and CNH Industrial. Over the last five to six years I’ve audited how businesses in several industries run, and given each of them a roadmap to a better way of working.
The problem is nearly always the same: good people, held back by the way the work is set up. Construction is no different. I work with you directly, from the first call to day 20.
In construction
Oak Bank care home, for Meridian Construction
I implemented parts of the Last Planner System and built the Takt plan for the project. Written and verbal references from Meridian are available on request.
If the same problems keep turning up on different jobs, let’s talk.
You tell me what keeps going wrong. I’ll ask how your jobs run from win to handover. Then I’ll tell you straight whether the 20-day programme is right for you, and if it isn’t, I’ll say so.
- 30 minutes, by video call
- With me, not a sales team
- No slides, no pitch
Pick a time that suits you
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